Maintenance Engineer Job Description
I’ve never worked at a plant that had a maintenance engineer. Recently I started working at a site that did had one (specifically, me). While I had a list of responsibilities from the job description I had applied for, I was interested in a broader description of the role.
Then I ran across a list of typical maintenance engineer responsibilities from Terry Wireman in Maintenance Strategy Series Volume 1 – Preventive Maintenance
The maintenance engineer typically will have all or some of the following responsibilities:
- Insures that equipment is properly designed, selected, and installed based on life-cycle philosophy
- Insures that equipment is performing effectively and efficiently.
- Establishes and monitors programs for engine/compressor analysis and vibration and other condition-monitoring techniques.
- Reviews deficiencies noted during corrective maintenance.
- Provides technical guidance for CMMS.
- Maintains and advises on use and disposition of stock, surplus, and rental rotating equipment
- Promotes equipment standardization, recommends spare parts levels, and coordinates sharing of spare parts with other asset teams.
- Available for consultation with maintenance technicians.
- Monitors new technology and keeps management/staff appraised on the new developments.
- Champions quality assurance services including shop qualifications for outside services.
- Develops standards and procedures for major maintenance jobs, management programs for areas of responsibility and exchanges information across asset teams.
- Provides technical guidance for PM and PDM programs.
- Monitors competitors activities in the field of Maintenance Management.
- Focal point for monitoring performance indicators for maintenance management program.
- Optimizes maintenance strategies.
- Focal point for analyzing equipment operating data.
Interestingly, some of this I’ve been working on—or see coming my way—despite it not being in the job description. Hopefully, I will not be too hampered by project work, which is not mentioned in the above, but I will have some.
From the perspective of RR&Es, these responsibilities (what you own) are matched to the role of maintenance engineer (who you are on the team). Under MBM, each responsibility would then have one or more expectations (how well you are expected to perform. For example, there would be metrics related to performance of the preventative maintenance program, shop services, maintenenance costs, etc.
If you are a maintenance engineer, let me know how well these responsibilities match up to your day-to-day activities.
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