Senior Maintenance Engineer

Why join us? 

Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of MillerKnoll means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows MillerKnoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

GENERAL PURPOSE

• Provide fundamental engineering leadership and expertise within machine maintenance. 
• Able to apply and coach engineering principles, concepts, theories, and techniques to support business objectives.
• While working to manage and set strategic objectives for Machine Maintenance Teams at assigned site(s), to achieve operational objectives in safety, quality, reliability, cost, continuous improvement, and employee morale.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Coaches and mentors maintenance engineering tasks and skills to others.
• Ability to take good notes; showing work and assumptions.
• Ability to use originality and ingenuity to apply solutions.
• Applies advanced engineering skills to work assignments.
• Lead, define, and complete complex problem-solving tasks with minimal oversight of leadership.
• Apply advanced problem-solving skills with an understanding of MKPS and its principles
• Applies and teaches problem tools (8-Step, PDCA, Water-Fall Charting, 5 Why, Critical Eye, etc.)
• Applies advanced supply chain cost, value stream capabilities and economic principles.
• Ability to develop, write, justify, and submit capital and expense requests
• Completes engineering tasks with no supervision. Able to guide and assist other team members.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of an assignment.
• Identifies opportunities and owns proactive improvements to machines, maintenance, and parts.
• Leads, defines and completes complex engineering tasks with minimal oversight of leadership.
• Follows all machine safety practices, guidelines, principles, with an emphasis on improved and enhanced machine safety.
• Follows engineering and quality processes.
• Conducts feasibility studies, determine manpower, cost estimates, and develop engineering criteria for machine maintenance sites.
• Seeks and receives mentoring from maintenance leadership.
• Seeks approval of budget using appropriate request process.
• Makes sound judgments using basic ingenuity and technical knowledge.
• Emphasis will be placed on team participation, ability to plan, and ability to achieve results on assigned projects.
• Knowledge of State and Federal Regulations regarding machine maintenance principles and programs.
• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's degree and/or associate degree with 10+ years of related maintenance experience in a Manufacturing Environment

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Experience in programming/developing/configuring HMI and SCADA systems, preferably Ignition.
• Experience working with MES Software packages.
• Experience and knowledge in Python, C#, HTML, JSON, RESTful Web APIs, and SQL.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Engineering/Technical degree from an accredited program
• 10+ years of professional engineering experience
• Exposure to project management concepts may be essential for some assignments
• Advanced knowledge in Lean principles, and application (MKPS)
• Engineering/Technical degree from an accredited program
• 10+ years of professional engineering experience
• Exposure to project management concepts may be essential for some assignments.
• Advanced knowledge in Lean principles and application (MKPS).
• Advanced knowledge of preventative maintenance, its principles, and application
• Advanced knowledge of predictive maintenance, its principles, and application.
• Advanced knowledge of asset management, its principles, and application.
• Problem solving with emphasis on getting to root cause and implementing effective countermeasures.
• Must be able to assess pro