Project Engineer- Maintenance

At Garlock, we manufacture industry-leading sealing solutions and build a culture where people solve complex challenges, improve operations, and make a difference every day. We're seeking a Maintenance Engineer passionate about reliability, continuous improvement, and helping manufacturing operations perform at their best.

About the role

You'll play a key role in helping our maintenance organization move from reactive to proactive by improving planning effectiveness, supporting predictive maintenance initiatives, optimizing downtime activities, and enhancing equipment reliability. This position offers a unique blend of engineering problem-solving, maintenance strategy development, project coordination, data analysis, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.

Your work will help create safer operations, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and strengthen the overall performance of our manufacturing facility.

Responsibilities

• Maintain equipment and tooling in a state of compliance with specifications, fit, form, and contamination standards
• Lead through influence skilled trades/maintenance personnel to evaluate controls and mechanical requirements for maintaining and improving production yields, efficiency, and uptime
• Analyze equipment performance and work to improve efficiencies; actively participate in Constraint Review Process
• Perform safety inspections to identify and ensure that safety hazards/unsafe practices are promptly corrected
• Meet PM, downtime, inventory, cost, scrap, supply, and tooling expense targets
• Create and sustain predictive maintenance programs; preparing for and fully utilizing downtime
• Assist and teach maintenance troubleshooting techniques to improve mean time between failure and mean time to repair
• Partner with Maintenance Supervisor on preventive maintenance schedules, preventive and predictive inspections, and repairs to minimize downtime
• Control and monitor oil, water, and energy usage
• Develop cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work for the Palmyra campus
• Lead the review of applicable maintenance procedures that promote defect-free maintenance work quality
• Continually improve planning, scheduling, data management, and job reporting systems to increase planning effectiveness and efficiency
• Collaborate with maintenance supervision, Operations Leaders, and other maintenance team members to schedule manpower and resources for planned maintenance work

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience in Process, Manufacturing, Facilities, or Maintenance Engineering
• Ability to establish strong relationships with all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to manage through competing priorities and requests
• Ability to lead through influence and assess department and operational priorities
• General computer competency for email and office programs; skills with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, and Oracle desired
• Complete all job duties with the highest level of safety

Working Conditions

• Manufacturing environment with variations in temperature and light
• Light to moderate physical effort (lifts/carry up to 25 pounds)
• Frequent prolonged standing/walking
• Lifts supplies/equipment; pushes/pulls or moves/lifts heavy equipment/supplies
• Occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements

• Far Acuity: ability to see clearly at 20 feet or more
• Near Acuity: ability to see clearly at 20 inches or less
• Depth Perception: ability to judge distance and space relationships
• Field of Vision: ability to see peripherally
• Accommodation: ability to adjust vision to bring objects into focus
• Color Vision: ability to distinguish and identify different colors

Pay

The hiring range for this position is typically $81,000 - $121,000 annually. Bonus, gainshare, and/or equity may be eligible for this position.

Benefits

Enpro offers a range of benefits including, but not limited to medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k) matching, and other supplemental insurance options.