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Job Summary:

Under the direction of the Operational Excellence Manager, this position is responsible for leading and directing maintenance resources to the fulfillment of Howmet Aerospace business objectives. We are looking for a skilled engineer with a strong background to lead the maintenance and reliability of production equipment, infrastructure, buildings, and grounds. This role requires close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams throughout project development and reviews to enhance efficiency and ensure compliance with industry standards. 

Job Responsibilities:

(May include, but are not limited to, the following)

Core Responsibilities:

• Leading change strategies to increase proactive maintenance by optimizing maintenance resources for key facility support systems and utilities.

• Developing policies and setting expectations to ensure that EHS objectives, activities, and plans are achieved.

• Managing and maintaining relationships with contractors and service providers for the Maintenance organization

• Lead in a manner that drives the identification, implementation and documentation of maintenance and reliability best practices. Connect with other Howmet locations and outside companies to benchmark and share best practices.

• Ensuring that preventative and responsive maintenance resources and programs are in place to support a manufacturing operation operating around the clock

• Promoting the development and application of predictive maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, Total Productive Maintenance, and control/capability of critical processes.

• Identify, procure, and install predictive monitoring equipment. Identify, implement, and document maintenance and reliability best practices.

• Identify and evaluate opportunities for cost reduction and/or productivity improvements with regards to maintenance activities, particularly seeking to minimize the investment required for spare parts and maintenance supplies.

• Drive and support a reliability systems and culture throughout the maintenance organization moving from reactive maintenance to preventative/proactive maintenance.

• Evaluate equipment failures and failure history to identify and recommend potential capital or expense projects to eliminate equipment failures.

• Coach and develop skills of direct and indirect reports. Partner with the Human Resources function to establish, coordinate and monitor department-specific people systems (performance management, reward and recognition, compensation, employee engagement, employee development, succession planning, hiring process, new employee onboarding, etc).

• Participating in the identification, recruitment, training, appraisal, and professional development of maintenance resources.

• Manage the scope of process improvement, capital expansion, and obsolescence mitigation projects assigned.

• Coordinate all phases of assigned projects from concept, scope development, written specifications, bid solicitations, related bid meetings, equipment and facilities engineering/design, manufacturing, and installation through final start-up, acceptance and project closure.

• Propose and execute improvements to existing facility support services and utilities

• Focus on overall safety of facilities equipment and processes including responsibility and oversight of EHS policies.

• Oversee contractor work and compliance with Howmet Aerospace, Federal/State, Environmental, Health and Safety policies.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Provides engineered solutions, recommendations and procurement of hardware for production equipment.  Support the testing, commissioning, and validation of new or modified hardware installations.

• Generate and maintain technical documentation, including schematics, spare parts lists, hardware manuals, troubleshooting & repair procedures.

• Collaborate with maintenance engineers, process engineers, safety engineers, and other internal and external contacts in the coordination of system repairs / installs.

• Provide field engineering and troubleshooting assistance to support maintenance, EHS and operation groups including equipment breakdown support.

• Perform engineering calculations, collect data and gather information to support equipment improvement initiatives for OEE improvements.

• Performs other work-related duties as assigned by the Operational Excellence Manager.
• Candidates should be adaptable, as flexibility in work hours may be necessary to meet project deadlines and support plant utility outages.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, electrical engineering technology, or a degree in a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in a similar role.
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully obtain access to such items.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in electrical project management, equipment design, or industrial automation.
• Strong understanding of electrical systems, controls, and automation in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to interpret and create schematic drawings.
• Ability to interpret codes, and industry regulations.
• Proficiency with Autodesk AutoCAD and Office 365.
• Excellent communication skills with experience in cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven ability to oversee multiple projects while maintaining timelines and budgets.
• Hands-on experience with industrial power distribution systems.