Plant Engineer
Northeast Energy Center · Charlton, MA · 1 mo ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time
Core Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives to improve equipment reliability, maintainability, and long-term asset performance across the facility
- Identify reliability risks, recurring failures, and maintenance gaps, and develop practical corrective actions
- Support root cause analysis and follow-through for equipment and operational issues affecting plant performance
- Partner with operations and maintenance teams to improve system readiness, PM effectiveness, and overall reliability
- Prioritize reliability improvements that reduce downtime and strengthen plant performance
- Lead and support site projects from planning through execution, including scope development, scheduling, contractor coordination, tracking, and closeout
- Support capital projects, plant modifications, equipment upgrades, and outage-related work
- Coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and contractors to help ensure projects are executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with site priorities
- Track milestones, risks, open items, and action plans, and help ensure issues are addressed in a timely way
- Provide practical, operations-focused support to help move projects from concept through implementation
Projects and Execution Support
- Lead and support site projects from planning through execution, including scope development, scheduling, contractor coordination, tracking, and closeout
- Support capital projects, plant modifications, equipment upgrades, and outage-related work
- Carefully coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and contractors to help ensure projects are executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with site priorities
- Track milestones, risks, open items, and action plans, and help ensure issues are addressed in a timely way
- Provide practical, operations-focused support to help move projects from concept through implementation
Maintenance Strategy and Operational Support
- Support development and improvement of preventive and predictive maintenance strategies
- Align maintenance planning with business priorities, outage needs, and long-term asset health
- Transition systems and projects into sustained operations, including documentation, turnover, and readiness planning
- Work with plant leadership to improve coordination between engineering, maintenance, and operations
- Serve as a senior resource for troubleshooting, planning, and execution support across a wide range of plant issues and initiatives
Safety, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement
- Reinforce safe work execution and sound operational practices across maintenance and project activities
- Support investigations, corrective actions, and improvement efforts related to plant events, equipment failures, and operational risks
- Ensure reliability and project activities are carried out in accordance with site procedures, standards, and regulatory requirements
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, communication, systems, and execution across the site
- Bring a practical, hands-on, solutions-oriented approach to improving plant performance