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What will you do?
• Improve the reliability, availability, and maintainability of manufacturing equipment, with a strong focus on reducing unplanned downtime and recurring failures.
• Provide advanced technical support for complex equipment issues, including mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, controls, sensors, and automation systems.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for chronic and significant equipment failures using tools such as 5-Why, Pareto analysis, and FMEA, and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance programs based on equipment criticality, failure history, and operating conditions.
• Analyze equipment performance using OEE, MTBF, MTTR, downtime, work-order history, and failure trends to identify reliability improvement opportunities.
• Utilize SAP/CMMS to maintain equipment records, maintenance plans, task lists, equipment BOMs, spare-parts information, and maintenance history.
• Improve the quality and effectiveness of maintenance work orders and use SAP/CMMS data to identify recurring problems and prioritize improvement activities.
• Identify equipment design weaknesses and develop engineering modifications and upgrades that improve reliability, safety, maintainability, quality, and equipment performance.
• Work with Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance technicians, OEMs, integrators, and suppliers to design and implement equipment improvements.
• Support the specification, installation, commissioning, and ramp-up of new or modified manufacturing equipment, with emphasis on reliability and maintainability.
• Support TPM and continuous improvement activities to increase equipment availability and production performance.
• Provide technical coaching and knowledge transfer to Maintenance technicians to strengthen troubleshooting and maintenance capabilities.
• Support critical spare-parts strategies and identify opportunities for component standardization and obsolescence reduction.
• Promote safe maintenance and engineering practices while ensuring equipment modifications maintain appropriate safety and quality requirements.

Who will you report to?
Engineering & Maintenance Manager

What qualifications will make you successful?
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in maintenance engineering, reliability engineering, or a similar equipment-focused engineering role within an industrial/manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex automated manufacturing equipment and identifying root causes of equipment failures.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and industrial automation systems.
• Working knowledge of TPM, Lean Manufacturing, FMEA, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), and continuous-improvement methodologies preferred.
• Experience with predictive maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, or condition monitoring is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) and/or CMMS systems, including maintenance work orders, equipment records, preventive maintenance plans, and maintenance history.
• Experience working with equipment OEMs, suppliers, contractors, and system integrators.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills with the ability to manage technical projects from problem identification through implementation and validation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with Manufacturing, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, and external suppliers.

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For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 86,400 - USD 129,600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you'll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:

Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.

Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.

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Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Manufacturing

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