Equipment Engineer - Mobile Equipment

About the role

Advantage Metals Recycling, a division of Nucor Corporation, is seeking applicants for our Equipment Engineer role.

Nucor is a Fortune 150 company, known for being North America's leader in designing, manufacturing, and recycling steel and steel products with a history of long-term sustainability and stability. Fortune Magazine recently ranked Nucor No. 1 on their list of the World’s Most Admired Companies in our industry.

Responsibilities

• Fleet Strategy, Standardization & Internal Partnership
• Drive increased equipment uptime while maintaining disciplined control of total cost of ownership
• Support long-range fleet planning, including rebuild, replacement, redeployment, and asset disposition strategies
• Technical Oversight & Vendor Integrity
• Coordinate procurement of mobile equipment including loaders, material handlers, trucks, roll-off equipment, and trailers
• Training, Safety & Environmental Support

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing, supporting, or engineering heavy industrial mobile equipment fleets
• Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand complex equipment systems and interpret schematics, OEM documentation, telematics data, and maintenance diagnostics
• Proven capability to evaluate maintenance and repair invoices for technical correctness and cost integrity
• Demonstrated business acumen managing high-value assets with a focus on lifecycle cost and return on investment
• Proven ability to deliver effective training to frontline operators, site leadership, and senior stakeholders
• Professional presence and communication skills suitable for senior-level vendor negotiations and presentations to leadership
• Able to collaborate effectively across peer engineering roles and influence outcomes without direct authority

Benefits

Basic Job Functions: Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.

The Equipment Engineer – Mobile Equipment is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the Raw Materials Group’s mobile equipment fleet, ensuring safe operation, high availability, and optimal total cost of ownership across a multi-site, multi-state asset base exceeding $20MM. This role serves as the primary technical authority for mobile equipment and is a key internal partner to Plant and Facility Managers who hold full P&L responsibility for their sites.

This role combines technical credibility, financial judgment, collaboration discipline, and strong instructional capability to elevate equipment performance across the organization.