About The Role

Responsible for coordinating and executing maintenance, installation, and improvement activities for mechanical, electrical, combustion, extraction, HVAC, fire protection, and lifting/handling equipment systems for the new project, ensuring operational continuity, regulatory compliance (safety, environmental, and quality), and cost control from the facility start-up stage.

Roles & Responsibilities

Daily Maintenance Management

Review pending items generated outside of working hours with the contractors and OEMs that are installing the Systems of the facilities
Generate a daily executive report of the Maintenance department before 8:00 am for management.
Attend visual management boards (0-100 Board) according to the established schedule, report and communicate the pending-items gap to the assigned department.

Safety

Verify safety standards: accidents and incidents, capture of unsafe acts and conditions, OSI captures, and safety talks for both personal and service department staff.
Generate and present the SOS (Safety Operating System) report to management according to the established schedule.
Lead the team on Safety procedures for installing machines and develop deep knowledge on Protag process.

Service Delivery and Facilities

Ensure compliance with maintenance routes and service areas (restrooms, offices, sports areas, air fresheners, meeting rooms, urinal mats, septic tanks, etc.).

Costs and Administration

Control expenses and consumption of janitorial materials, track pending warehouse materials and purchase orders, and generate warehouse tickets when necessary.
Coordinate service departments: central maintenance, general labor, cleaning, water treatment, tool room, electronics, powerhouse (preventive maintenance), and clarification systems.
Generate scopes of work for hiring service providers and follow up on the purchasing process in accordance with company guidelines.

Personnel

Verify attendance lists, vacation scheduling, and clock-in/clock-out records for service departments.

Environmental and Quality

Comply with environmental requirements and support all ISO 9000 requirements (waste collection, etc.).
Ensure compliance with standards established in One Point Lessons (LSP) and audits, guaranteeing high-quality work.

Technical Support and Training

Provide support to production lines on machining and/or machine issues when required.
Deliver training courses on Green Belt, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, spindles and heads, basic electricity, lubrication, hydraulics, pneumatics, and metrology.
Apply FPS and MOS knowledge to processes.
Support Tool Room personnel in the use of machine tools.

Electrical Systems and Compressed Air

Provide support and knowledge of high- and medium-voltage electrical systems.
Know and support the compressed air supply system (compressors).

Cafeteria and Welding

Support kitchen equipment for required maintenance.
Follow up on welding jobs, have basic knowledge of the task, and support welders when required.

Mechanical Installations and Repairs

Installation of pneumatic, hydraulic, and mist extraction systems.
Supervision of mechanical installations (production machines, utilities, etc.).
Generation of requisitions for purchase orders and quoting of installations.
Dismantling of obsolete mechanical components and generation of material disposal documentation.
Coordination of installations without affecting production.
Layout updates related to mechanical installations.
Repair of mechanical systems (leaks, obsolescence, damage, etc.).

Production Washer Engineering

Updating washer engineering (drawings, obsolescence, programs, etc.).
Research on new technologies to reduce cycle time or improve washing/drying.
Production support, implementation of improvements, and part number set-up.
Ensuring quality compliance in operations.

Cranes and Manipulators

Setting up spare parts for cranes and manipulators.
Implementing improvements in lifting systems (capacity, ergonomics, safety).
Coordinating annual certification of cranes and manipulators.
Installing lifting systems and ensuring proper functioning.

Combustion Safety (Senior Mechanical)

Quarterly focused audits on combustion equipment over 400,000 BTU.
Scheduling and conducting the annual combustion safety audit with a third party.
Annual maintenance of combustion equipment.
Coordinating any activity involving ECPL on combustion equipment.

Extraction

Ensuring proper functioning of extraction equipment, duct maintenance, and preventing blockages.
Setting up spare parts and balancing extraction according to each production machine's needs.
Research and implementation of improvements in mist/dust extraction equipment.

HVAC

Implementing improvements to air handling units (AHUs/BVDFs).
Setting up spare parts and troubleshooting/repairing equipment.
Maintaining ideal temperature and humidity conditions in facilities, offices, and measurement rooms (CMMs).

Fire Protection System (FPS/SCI)

Coordinating activities to meet annual audit (AON) requirements.
Repairing leaks in fire protection piping and updating drawings after modifications.
Setting up spare parts and requesting them according to monthly maintenance schedules

Improvement Projects

Research and implementation of improvements for water and energy savings, emission reduction, etc.
Writing project proposals in the CPARs platform to secure funding approval and implementation.
Standardizing mechanical equipment to reduce the variety of spare parts.
Researching new technologies applicable to the project.

Equipment Lifting

Be responsible and a certified expert in equipment and machinery lifting.

Specialized Areas of Responsibility.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering or related field

Work Experience

Minimum 3 years in industrial maintenance, facilities, or plant start-up projects

Certification's

Certification in equipment/machinery lifting (forklift/crane), preferred

Technical Knowledge

Pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical systems (high and medium voltage), compressed air, combustion equipment (>400,000 BTU), mist/dust extraction systems, HVAC, fire protection systems (FPS/SCI), industrial wash/dry systems

Methodologies / Tools

FPS (Ford Production System) / MOS, Green Belt, 8D problem-solving methodology, One Point Lessons (LSP), ISO 9000

Functional Skills

Contract and vendor management, generation of requisitions and purchase orders, cost and material consumption control, management of service departments