With more than 120 operations and 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications.

In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, forgings, and clad products for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries.

With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Precision Castparts

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**Summary**

Responsible for engineering activities to maximize safety, quality and productivity in the daily maintenance of

plant equipment in order to drive continuous improvements to equipment availability and throughput.

**Essential Functions**

Responsible for safety design modifications and improvements to equipment and facilities.

Responsible for safety investigations and corrective actions.

Responsible for developing, documenting, and improving preventive maintenance programs in order to support

the improvement of equipment availability and throughput.

Responsible for developing, documenting, and improving predictive maintenance programs using predictive failure

techniques such as vibration analysis, thermo-graphic imaging, etc.

Provide technical support and troubleshooting for equipment failures and loss of production. Assist maintenance

and provide technical guidance required to return equipment to operation so as to minimize downtime and lost

production. Provide “on call” support.

Responsible for analyzing production delay data for establishing and documenting or modifying preventive

maintenance tasks. Generate continuous improvement projects based on production delay data.

Prepare and review equipment failure/root cause analysis reports and determine/evaluate corrective action items

and the impact of corrective action items to the preventive maintenance programs.

Develop cost justifications for improvement projects and corrective actions.

Develop work orders to detail work requests needed to implement improvements projects or corrective actions.

Follow-up and audit to ensure proper completion.

Coordinate outside contractor work activities with maintenance personnel or production personnel as required to

minimize impacts to cost and production.

Responsible for critical spare parts assessments and parts standardization.

Responsible for developing and implementing standard operating procedures, training, and skill development for

all personnel.

Determine and install appropriate performance metrics that will promote long-term continuous improvement

programs consistent with the operating objectives of the department.

Provides support for problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships.

Perform Project Engineering duties.

Fill in for the Supervisors or Department Manager as required.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

**Additional Responsibilities**

Work with planning to prepare, coordinate and maintain schedules for extended production outages and major maintenance work.

Work with maintenance supervisors and department managers to determine priorities and establish schedules.

Support the management and maintaining of the information required for utilizing the plant computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

Work with maintenance craftsmen and operations to resolve equipment failures.

**Qualifications**

**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or technical discipline related to maintenance.

Formal training or experience with Preventive and Predictive Maintenance programs

Maintenance Engineering or Maintenance Supervisor position with a minimum of 1-3 years of proven experience.

**COMPETENCIES**

Ability to provide leadership

Expertise, knowledge and training in engineering and maintenance.

Extensive knowledge and training in product manufacturing.

General knowledge of manufacturing processes involved in manufacturing of forged or flat rolled metal products.

Excellent interpersonal skills

General traits such as action oriented, conflict manager, decision maker, comprehensive listener, time manager and positive attitude.

Fulfill the roles of facilitator, coach, mentor, counselor and communicator

Computer skills and the ability to advance those skills as required.

**Special Skills**

Demonstrate overall experience in electrical and mechanical maintenance and repairs. Demonstrate expertise in a specific engineering field.

Demonstrate the ability to troubleshoot electrical and mechanical problems causing equipment failures.

Experience in Preventive and Predictive Maintenance.

Experience with Total Productive Maintenance and Lean Manufacturing philosophies.

Training in several maintenance disciplines such as hydraulics, welding, machining etc.

Demonstrate the ability to lead people and get results through others.

Working knowledge of principles of TOC/Lean Manufacturing

The ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.

Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level.

Employee training and development.

Strong customer orientation.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Commitment to company values.

Change management.

Organizational development.

Computer proficiency in Windows environment and software tools that support job responsibilities.

**Additional Notes**

Proof of US citizenship, nationality, and/or permanent resident status in order to comply with all applicable export and import laws and regulations.

**PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS**

**PHYSICAL DEMANDS – ** THE PHYSICAL DEMANDS DESCRIBED HERE ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THOSE THAT MUST BE MET BY AN EMPLOYEE TO SUCCESSFULLY PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THIS JOB. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS MAY BE MADE TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS.

**WORK ENVIRONMENT – ** THE WORK ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIBED HERE ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THOSE AN EMPLOYEE ENCOUNTERS WHILE PERFORMING THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THIS JOB. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS MAY BE MADE TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS.

Mechanical Engineer

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