Maintenance Engineer

Responsibilities

The Maintenance Engineer will play a critical role in supporting the an area maintenance shop at Eastman. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise, a proactive approach to reliability activities, and excellent communication skills, all while fostering a zero-incident mindset regarding equipment and process safety.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide precision maintenance support for chemical manufacturing equipment, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Develop and implement reliability improvement activities to enhance equipment uptime and operational efficiency.
• Advocate for and promote a zero-incident mindset, prioritizing safety in all maintenance practices.
• Collaborate closely with operations and execution teams to understand maintenance needs and priorities.
• Analyze equipment performance data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Lead root cause analysis for equipment failures and recommend corrective actions, always focusing on safety and prevention
• Maintain accurate documentation of maintenance activities and ensure compliance with company and industry standards
• Mentor and train maintenance team on best practices and technical skills related to rotating and fixed equipment, emphasizing safe working practices
• Review and update training documentation
• Support daily and weekly priority-based scheduling
• Own spare parts strategy to optimize tradeoffs between inventory commitment and equipment reliability
• Identify tools and methodology for preventative and predictive maintenance downtime
• Perform and support asset criticality assessments for assigned areas
• Develop and maintain asset management strategies for equipment in assigned areas
• Drive reduction in mean time to repair for critical equipment failures 
• Support immediate production reliability events as they arise
• Originate and develop analysis to rapidly repair equipment 
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance maintenance processes, capabilities and safety culture
• Acquire failure data and prepare maintenance plans for restoring equipment to operation condition in a minimum amount of time
• Gather and examine maintainability data to develop well-defined repair techniques, principles and maintenance procedures
• Prepare general diagrams, charts drawings and spare parts requirements for Maintenance Planners
• Determine cost advantages of alternatives and develop action plans that comply with demands for timely repairs of equipment
• Perform detailed maintainability studies and calculations of complexity/system downtime
• Initiate elemental engineering studies into equipment/process repair time and present findings and recommendations to leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering required
• 2+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment required; 5+ years highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of rotating equipment, including pumps, compressors and turbines
• Familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance principles and practices
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex technical issues
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment
• Commitment to fostering a zero-incident mindset and promoting safety in all maintenance activities
• Proficient in using maintenance management systems and engineering software

Note

Eastman will not accept applicants for this offered position who require visa sponsorship, including those whose status is F-1 visa OPT who subsequently would require ongoing visa sponsorship.