Maintenance Engineer

About the Role

Shape the future today at Mercedes-Benz Vans, where interdisciplinary teams develop the mobility of tomorrow. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to making mobility safer, simpler, and more sustainable while fostering professional and personal growth in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop best practices to improve equipment capacity, quality, and reliability.
• Repair, adjust, and maintain production equipment, machinery, or instruments in cooperation with internal and external staff to ensure reliable function and compliance with process specifications.
• Coordinate activities (PM’s, TPM, problem solving) of third-party contractors, vendors, or suppliers related to maintenance.
• Investigate problems, analyze root causes, and derive resolutions using the 8D Problem Solving Process to ensure sustainable quality products.
• Support development of operational strategies to achieve energy and financial objectives.
• Monitor expenses and profitability.
• Support equipment uptime, MTTR, MTBF, and OEE by relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Evaluate current production activities and drive improvements.
• Ensure highly technical equipment meets required specifications and high-quality standards.
• Implement cost-reduction initiatives while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Contribute to product and process quality design testing methods.
• Develop planning standards, methods, and procedures to maintain robust PM, TPM processes, as well as robust containments and countermeasures for equipment downtime.
• Stay current with product specifications, engineering technology, and production processes.
• Propose and manage small-scale projects from beginning to end, collaborating with other departments to prepare scope of work including project requirements, milestones, deliverables, and reports expected from external providers.
• Take an active role in the implementation of new equipment.
• Drive the implementation of continuous improvement processes for efficiency to create a Lean Manufacturing environment.
• Participate in regularly scheduled team meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant degree required.
• 3+ years of relevant experience, strongly preferring an automotive environment.

Skills

• PLC experience (e.g., OMRON, Allen-Bradley, Siemens).
• 3D-CAD experience (e.g., SolidWorks, Catia, Siemens NX).
• Hands-on experience with pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, and computer-controlled systems.
• Hands-on experience with process devices such as motor drives, sensors, AC/DC converters, lifts, conveyors, etc.
• Experience with paint applications (chemicals, sprays, filtration, pumps, degreaser, hydrocyclones, rectifier process, anodes, anolyte systems, ultra-filtration, DI-water, industrial paint oven curing).
• Experience with joining technologies, clinching, gluing, and fluid technology.
• SAP/PLM experience.
• Hands-on programming experience in booth or work cell.
• Hands-on experience in offline simulations.
• Experience with project management and equipment installation.
• Knowledge of manufacturing methods/procedures and process technology.
• Ability to evaluate alternative solutions and support decision-making processes.
• Proven written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to anticipate needs and deliver timely, relevant solutions and actions.
• Proven design and implementation of Continuous Improvement themes with savings.
• Experience in process layout and optimization incorporating asset utilization (a plus).
• Ability to troubleshoot, instruct repair techniques, and assist in root cause analysis in stressful situations.
• Ability to read and create blueprints and schematics.

Benefits

• Excellent compensation and benefits plan with 401k matching.
• Company-provided mobile phone option.
• Health initiatives.
• Employee discounts.
• Employee events.
• Parking availability.

Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC is based in Ladson, South Carolina, and manufactures Sprinter vans for the U.S. and Canadian markets. The plant opened in 2018 and is part of the Mercedes-Benz Vans global production network, producing the all-new eSprinter starting in 2024.