Mechanical Engineer in Salisbury, NC

Mechanical Engineer - Maintenance

Location: Salisbury, NC
Schedule: Full-Time | Day Shift | Monday-Friday
Salary: $83,000-$115,000
Bonus: Quarterly Cash Bonus Program
Relocation Assistance Available

Improve Equipment Reliability in a High-Impact Manufacturing Role

We are seeking a hands-on Reliability Engineer to improve equipment performance, reduce downtime, and strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance programs at a specialized metals manufacturing facility.

This position is ideal for a Mechanical Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, or experienced Maintenance Supervisor who can combine maintenance planning with hands-on equipment troubleshooting. You will spend significant time on the production floor working directly with maintenance, operations, and plant leadership to improve the reliability of furnaces, presses, material-handling equipment, and other critical manufacturing assets.

This is not a strictly office-based engineering position. The successful candidate must be comfortable investigating equipment failures firsthand, developing long-term maintenance strategies, and helping execute practical solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Evaluate plant equipment and identify opportunities to improve reliability, availability, and throughput
• Develop, document, and improve preventive maintenance programs
• Help transition the facility from preventive maintenance toward predictive maintenance
• Investigate chronic equipment failures and recurring production delays
• Perform root cause analysis and develop corrective action plans
• Troubleshoot mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and process equipment
• Support production during unplanned equipment downtime
• Develop maintenance schedules for repairs, shutdowns, equipment replacements, and upgrades
• Create and update preventive maintenance tasks, work orders, equipment assets, and inspections within the CMMS
• Maintain a critical spare-parts inventory
• Analyze equipment performance, downtime, maintenance, and failure data
• Prepare equipment failure reports and determine the impact of corrective actions
• Develop cost justifications for equipment upgrades and reliability improvement projects
• Support capital projects and major maintenance activities
• Assist with process engineering and project engineering assignments
• Coordinate outside contractors and service providers
• Help develop standard operating procedures for maintenance activities
• Monitor maintenance spending and support departmental budget goals
• Recommend equipment modifications that improve safety, reliability, quality, and productivity
• Lead or participate in continuous improvement initiatives
• Develop performance metrics that support long-term equipment reliability
• Work closely with maintenance technicians, production employees, engineers, and operations leadership

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline
• At least 3-5 years of relevant engineering or industrial maintenance experience
• Maintenance Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or Maintenance Supervisor experience
• Hands-on mechanical troubleshooting experience
• Experience developing or improving preventive maintenance programs
• Experience supporting predictive maintenance initiatives
• Strong understanding of industrial production equipment
• Root Cause Analysis experience
• Ability to balance maintenance planning with hands-on plant-floor support
• Strong mechanical aptitude
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working independently in a small manufacturing facility

Preferred Qualifications

• Mechanical Engineering degree
• Five or more years of reliability or maintenance engineering experience
• Metals, foundry, aerospace, forging, casting, or heavy manufacturing experience
• Experience with furnaces, presses, hydraulic equipment, or thermal-processing systems
• FMEA experience
• Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing experience
• Predictive maintenance program implementation
• Capital project management
• Maintenance budgeting and cost control
• Experience developing equipment reliability metrics
• SolidWorks experience
• AutoCAD experience
• CMMS experience

Equipment and Systems

The Reliability Engineer may support equipment including:

• Industrial furnaces
• Melting and thermal-processing equipment
• Hydraulic presses
• Pneumatic systems
• Pumps and motors
• Gearboxes and bearings
• Cooling systems
• Material-handling equipment
• Production machinery
• Mechanical drive systems
• Plant utilities and supporting equipment

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will help the plant:

• Reduce unplanned equipment downtime
• Improve furnace and press availability
• Strengthen preventive maintenance execution
• Introduce additional predictive maintenance practices
• Improve maintenance planning and scheduling
• Identify and eliminate recurring equipment failures
• Improve critical spare-parts management
• Increase production reliability and equipment throughput
• Build sustainable maintenance systems rather than relying on reactive repairs

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