Maintenance Specialist/Engineer

Responsibilities

The Maintenance Engineer, under limited supervision, assists the Maintenance Manager & Reliability Engineering in providing maintenance support and project management services for Avient Protective Materials.

Works within a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to analyze equipment performance, spare parts requirements and looking for areas of improvement to ensure equipment and operational function is reliable.

The Maintenance Engineer will operate within the organizational structure to support the Maintenance group & Reliability Engineering.

The person in this role will interact will the project & process engineers, production staff, and maintenance staff.

Utilizing equipment CMMS & Root Cause Analysis data, role will initiate reliable solutions to include performing change leader duties and identifying spare requirements.

Recommend and adjust spare parts inventory requirements as required due to plant expansion, changes in turnaround time for repairs, and equipment reliability from "as delivered" through "as maintained" to "as used".

Essential Functions


* Show behavior in line with the SHE and Security risks and agreed controls, including being compliant to Avient requirements, rules, and procedures.


* Assures that all employees follow established occupational safety rules, housekeeping, Hazmat regulations, JSAs and SOPs.


* Address and report person(s) behaving in a SHE and Security irresponsible manner and document observed risks.


* Abides by Avient Protective Materials procedures/policies regarding security, inclusive of: employee security agreements; use of non-disclosure agreements with outside parties; control of Avient Protective Materials intellectual property limited to a "need to know" only basis; no unauthorized use of cell phones, cameras, computers or APM property; reporting security threats and incidents; proper control of APM property and keys.


* Lead root cause analysis on equipment failures leading to lost machine availability or excessive cost.


* Be able to engineer solutions to repetitive equipment failure, high-cost maintenance activities, or incidents of high frequency part replacements.


* Maintains predictive equipment programs to include report review and creation of corrective action(s).


* Monitors and analyze CMMS data to identify repetitive problems.


* Assist the Reliability Engineer in implementing the Reliability program(s) for Avient Protective Materials.


* Lead Planned Preventive Maintenance program to ensure preventive maintenance plans are effective and cost effective for equipment reliability and optimization.


* Comply with relevant laws, regulatory requirements, recipes, SOP's, and other related documents and activities.


* Perform other duties as assigned.

Authorities

Maintain and improve reliability reporting for Avient Protective Materials.Qualifications

Qualifications


* New grad with BS degree in Engineerin...