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Unilever · 4 days ago

Maintenance Engineer

Hammond, IN

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$86K/yr - $129K/yr

3+ years exp

Unilever is a global consumer goods company, and they are seeking a Maintenance Engineer to ensure the reliability and continuous improvement of factory equipment and assets. This role involves planning and executing maintenance activities, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and leading initiatives for continuous improvement in equipment reliability.

ConsumerFast-Moving Consumer GoodsFood and BeverageManufacturingPersonal Care and Hygiene

Culture & Values

Responsibilities

Work with site planners to ensure short and long-term plan of maintenance activities to minimize downtime. Coordinate the required downtime with the operations team to ensure downtimes are incorporated in the production plan

Organization of the work orders execution, ensuring alignment among production, planners and front-line managers of respective areas on the prioritization and execution of the plan

Assisting in the development and management of the maintenance budget by forecasting costs for maintenance activities and providing technical inputs to build the spare parts inventory plan

Support spare parts inventory analysis and actions with respective teams (procurement, storekeeper, Maintenance experts) to ensure spare part strategy for the site

Responsible for the asset health assessment and criticality analysis for the plant and build strategy for replacement

Control the maintenance activities during planned maintenance or overhauls

Analyzing maintenance data to identify trends and areas for improvement in maintenance strategies and equipment performance

Ensure execution of condition-based inspections and reliability measurements (examples: vibration, oil analysis, lubrication plan, thermography, etc.)

Support the execution of actions from EWO related to improving or creating PM program

Coordinate the activities for running failure mode and effect analysis for critical assets and revise respective maintenance planning per the output of the analysis (Condition based monitoring or Predictive based monitoring)

Management of Change approver for new parts and standard maintenance procedures (SMPs)

Monitor and report that proper documentation of maintenance activities are being done by planners in the CMMS system

Ownership of CMMS system

Ensure all maintenance activities comply with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards

Lead risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies for critical equipment. Responsible for keeping track of all safety and legal inspections required for the critical assets

Collaborate with production and quality teams to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). The maintenance engineer will input on the analysis of key losses with the expertise on techniques that can be utilized to improve reliability

Support Autonomous Maintenance (AM) teams with training and technical guidance

Co-Lead the deployment of the PM Pillar across the factory, aligned with UMS methodology

Develop and maintain PM Master Plans, including equipment classification, criticality analysis, and maintenance standards

Facilitate PM audits and track progress against UMS milestones

Train and coach teams on PM tools (e.g., FMEA, MTBF/MTTR analysis, Lubrication Standards, Maintenance Prevention)

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) Measures equipment reliability and effectiveness of PM strategies

MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) Tracks efficiency of maintenance response and repair processes

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) Evaluates equipment performance, availability, and quality output

Breakdown and Frequency Monitors number of unplanned equipment failures

PM Compliance Rate Percentage of scheduled PM tasks completed on time

Number of RCA/Kaizen Events Completed Measures proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement

Budget Accuracy Measures the difference between planned cost and actual incurred cost

CMMS adoption % of hours worked recorded in CMMS or related KPIs

Qualification

Maintenance EngineeringContinuous ImprovementReliability EngineeringCMMS ProficiencyLean ManufacturingAnalytical SkillsLeadership SkillsCommunication Skills