Ironwood Plant - Maintenance/Reliability Engineer

Milliken & Company is a global manufacturing leader whose focus on materials science delivers tomorrow’s breakthroughs today. From industry-leading molecules to sustainable innovations, Milliken creates products that enhance people’s lives and deliver solutions for its customers and communities. Drawing on thousands of patents and a portfolio with applications across the textile, flooring, chemical and healthcare businesses, the company harnesses a shared sense of integrity and excellence to positively impact the world for generations. Discover more about Milliken’s curious minds and inspired solutions at Milliken.com and on Facebook, Instagram and  LinkedIn.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Maintenance/Reliability Engineer supports the engineering and maintenance departments to ensure that production equipment is operating as designed. This position is also expected to advance to build upon preventive and predictive maintenance programs and help enhance a culture of Continuous Improvement.

This position is strategic to support site running reliably to allow growth and meet customer demands.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Expand Preventive/Predictive Maintenance Program to minimized down-time of plant equipment and ensure production demands are met.
• Develop and continuously improve maintenance strategy.
• Adjust maintenance plans based on equipment performance and KPIs.
• Maintain the Portage equipment maintenance records.
• Submit and manage CAR’s following Encapsys policies and procedures.
• Prepare and submit capital appropriations requests to secure funding and approval to execute small projects
• Identify risks, opportunities and create counter measures.
• Ensure P&ID’s are created to support projects.
• Work closely with corporate and site engineering to align resources required to execute small capital installations needed to support Encapsys growth efforts.
• Work closely with the business development teams and process design team to develop effective engineering solutions to produce new high-quality products.
• Support capital planning efforts.
• Maintain Engineering and Maintenance files to ensure accuracy of drawings and information.
• Ability to wear a respirator as required by the task being performed or chemical safety data sheets.
• Attend the periodic plant-wide safety meeting to review the status of incomplete safety items, open incident investigations, cause analysis and safety-related action plans to ensure adequate allocation of resources to enable timely completion.   When needed, take personal action to complete items and escalate issues to your immediate manager if progress is not being made.
• Be visible to production associates on the plant floor daily.  Walk your area of responsibility multiple times daily with a focus on communicating (asking where you can help) with each associate in your area.  Ensure that associates are carrying out tasks according to the rule