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Maintenance Engineer

Houston, TXOnsiteFull TimePosted 25 days ago

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Required skills

  • maintenance strategies
  • reliability strategies
  • equipment performance
  • technical engineering support
  • asset integrity
  • preventive maintenance
  • predictive maintenance
  • equipment reliability
  • failure analysis
  • equipment criticality assessments

Nice to have

  • mechanical engineering
  • operating facilities

Role summary

The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for developing and optimizing maintenance and reliability strategies, evaluating equipment performance, and providing technical engineering support to improve equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and asset integrity. Requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering (preferably mechanical), with a minimum of ten years of relevant experience in maintenance, reliability, or asset management engineering. Experience in operating facilities and developing preventive/predictive maintenance strategies is essential, along with knowledge of equipment reliability, failure analysis, criticality assessments, and maintenance planning. Proficiency with CMMS like SAP or Maximo is required, alongside strong technical analysis, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Job Summary:

The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for developing and optimizing maintenance and reliability strategies, evaluating equipment performance, and providing technical engineering support to improve equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and asset integrity.

Experience & Education: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering; mechanical engineering preferred.
  • Minimum ten years of relevant maintenance, reliability, or asset management engineering experience
  • Experience in operating facilities and developing preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
  • Knowledge of equipment reliability, failure analysis, equipment criticality assessments, and maintenance planning
  • Experience with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), such as SAP or Maximo
  • Strong technical analysis, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Develop, review, and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, plans, and procedures for facility equipment and systems
  • Independently perform engineering evaluations, equipment criticality assessments, reliability studies, and failure analyses to develop and recommend technically sound corrective and preventive actions.
  • Analyze and interpret equipment performance data, maintenance history, and recurring failures to identify underlying issues and develop engineering recommendations that improve equipment reliability and operational efficiency.
  • Provide technical engineering support for equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, replacement, and plant improvement activities
  • Develop and review equipment maintenance requirements, job plans, spare parts recommendations, and associated technical documentation
  • Collaborate with operations, maintenance, inspection, and engineering teams to implement maintenance and reliability improvements
  • Review CMMS information for technical accuracy and support improvements to maintenance data, equipment hierarchies, and maintenance strategies
  • Support maintenance planning, commissioning or operations-readiness activities, and technical assessments as assigned
  • Prepare technical findings, recommendations, and reports and communicate them to project teams, clients, and management
  • Perform assigned work in accordance with applicable safety, quality, engineering, and company requirements
  • Other duties as assigned

GATE Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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