Mechanical Engineer (Associate, Professional, Senior)

Position Title: Mechanical Engineer (Associate Professional Senior) (Confidential Client)
Location: Graniteville SC Onsite
Employment Type: Permanent

• Salary: $70000 - $130000/yr
• Variable Compensation: VIP - 10% target each year

Research plan design develop and implement mechanical systems equipment and manufacturing processes. Provide mechanical engineering support for production equipment utilities and auxiliary systems. Analyze equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve safety reliability efficiency quality and throughput. Develop solutions for equipment-related issues through troubleshooting root cause analysis and corrective actions. Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on waste reduction scrap reduction downtime reduction and process optimization. Provide technical support and guidance to manufacturing maintenance and operational teams.

• Research plan design develop and implement mechanical systems equipment and manufacturing processes
• Provide mechanical engineering support for production equipment utilities and auxiliary systems
• Analyze equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve safety reliability efficiency quality and throughput
• Develop solutions for equipment-related issues through troubleshooting root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on waste reduction scrap reduction downtime reduction and process optimization
• Provide technical support and guidance to manufacturing maintenance and operational teams
• Lead or support capital and continuous improvement projects ranging from equipment modifications to major machine installations
• Develop project scopes budgets schedules and implementation plans
• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure projects are completed safely on time and within budget
• Manage procurement activities including vendor selection RFQs capital requests and project cost tracking
• Oversee equipment installation startup testing validation and project closeout activities
• Promote a strong safety culture by ensuring safety requirements are incorporated into all engineering activities
• Participate in risk assessments machine safeguarding evaluations and implementation of safety improvements
• Ensure compliance with company standards regulatory requirements and engineering best practices
• Support contractor safety and quality compliance during project execution
• Evaluate existing equipment and systems to identify opportunities for performance improvement
• Lead reliability improvement efforts and corrective action projects
• Utilize engineering principles and data analysis to improve operational performance and reduce losses
• Support preventative and predictive maintenance initiatives
• Lead continuous improvement and corrective action activities and projects with emphasis on scrap and waste improvement activities
• Provide input into the design for new or modified systems processes or technologies
• Manage major projects such as new machine installation upgrades etc. The projects range from $50K to $1M
• Analyze project requirements identify and address design parameters engineering challenges and to ensure solutions are implemented accurately timely and within budget
• Serve as technical lead planning and organizing portions of a project including budget manpower and equipment utilization
• Oversee project workflow and support internal and external resources to ensure on-time delivery of projects meeting quality standards and within budget
• Ensure all relevant safety objectives and legal requirements for all activities are observed and implemented
• Participate in monitoring and evaluating the performance of existing systems processes and technologies and recommend modifications and enhancements to improve quality and/or efficiency
• Other duties as assigned