Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

About the Role

This opportunity is in Woodburn, Indiana at Michelin's BF Goodrich Tire Plant (BFG4). Woodburn is a small town about 30 minutes east of Fort Wayne, IN, the cultural and economic center of northeastern Indiana and the state's second largest city. Established in 1961, the plant manufactures passenger and light truck tires. There is an immediate opening for a Maintenance Engineer who will provide mechanical technical support for maintaining machines and equipment, working closely with methods and reliability teams, breakdown engineers, and maintenance crews.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that maintenance work is performed in compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Optimize maintenance plans in terms of frequency, quality, and time spent.
• Monitor the effectiveness of machine interventions to prevent breakdowns, make sure that spare parts are available and keep production online.
• Improve rate and duration of breakdowns and preventive stop times and help improve cycle time rate consistent with the objectives of the shop and each machine.
• Confirm efficiency of machine interventions, as to resources used, consumption of spare parts, and sustained energy efficiency of equipment.
• Support the shop’s day to day operations.
• Application of Total Process Control (MTP) standards by the maintenance respected, especially concerning locks and unlocking procedures.
• Analyze and provide information about the life of equipment, especially as to reliability, quality and efficiency.
• Become a technical expert of equipment with the ability to coach troubleshooters and maintainers’ scheduled work, including training on technical interventions, ensuring the application of maintenance methods, promoting the use of standard problem solving, maintaining the conformity of the equipment, and updating technical drawings and information.

Requirements

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years industrial maintenance experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact in a professional manner with external partners, suppliers, customers, and colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• Strong teamwork, leadership, and organizational skills.

Skills

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office® Suite and ability to become proficient in internal software systems.
• Demonstrated ability to use software systems for data mining and data analysis.
• Experience in CAD software (Solidworks, SolidEdge, AutoCAD).
• Previous utilization of CMMS system for maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Attention to detail, data accuracy.

Benefits

• Career Growth: Personalized development plans, mentorship, and cross-functional opportunities. Unique career paths and opportunities for advancement.
• Inclusive Culture: Thrive in a diverse, supportive environment where your competencies, contributions and behaviors are recognized. Option to join one of our Connected Communities.
• Innovation-Driven: Work on projects that matter—from sustainable materials to digital transformation.
• Community Impact: Be part of a company that does what's right. We use sustainable business practices while balancing the needs of our customers and communities.