Senior Maintenance Engineer

About the role

The Senior Maintenance Engineer is responsible for leading equipment reliability, maintenance optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives within a highly automated automotive manufacturing environment. This role provides technical leadership for maintenance operations, drives efforts to improve equipment uptime and performance, supports capital and automation projects, and develops long-term maintenance strategies to support production goals. The Senior Maintenance Engineer works closely with Production, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance teams to reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and ensure safe, reliable operation of manufacturing equipment.

Responsibilities

• Lead equipment reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives to maximize production uptime and operational efficiency.
• Analyze recurring equipment failures and conduct advanced root cause investigations to identify and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs including equipment uptime, downtime, MT