Mechanical Engineer

Experience and abilities you will need:

• Mechanical Engineering Degree and at least 4 years of related experience.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

What you will do:

Support the plant in all areas of mechanical engineering from the development, design, installation, and maintenance of all equipment both new and current. Research and analyze customer and vendor design proposals, specifications, manuals and other data and maintenance requirements and evaluate the feasibility, cost of design and equipment. Support and assist in installation, operation and maintenance and repair of all plant equipment.

• Establish and coordinate the maintenance and safety procedures, service schedules and supply of materials required to maintain machines and equipment in the prescribed condition.
• Interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports and maintain accurate an current records and documents.
• Implement operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions and provide technical information. Recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions.
• Research and analyze customer design proposals, specifications, manuals, maintenance requirements and evaluate the feasibility, and cost of designs or applications.
• Specify system components or direct modifications of products to ensure conformance and engineering design and performance specifications.
• Research, design, evaluate mechanical products, equipment, systems and processes to meet requirements, applying knowledge of engineering principles.
• Develop and test alternate designs and processing methods to assess feasibility, operating condition effects, possible new applications and modifications.
• Estimate costs and submit bids for engineering, construction, or extraction projects, and prepare contract documents.
• Investigate equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation and to make recommendations to the maintenance team.
• Provide feedback and support to design engineers on customer-related problems and needs.
• Monitor and support installation, operation, maintenance, and repair to ensure that machines and equipment are installed and functioning according to specifications.
• Ensure that all MSHA regulations are followed and that all safety requirements are established and maintained throughout the plant and ongoing projects.
• Support and coordinate all CI projects and ideas as needed to implement ideas.
• Continue to support the plant personnel in critical incidents involving equipment maintenance, repairs and replacements.
• Update and modify safety procedures service schedules and supply of materials required to maintain machines and equipment in the prescribed conditions to best facilitate the ideal operation of the plant.
• Provide the necessary support for the department during the 3600 upgrade and commissioning phases.