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MillerKnoll · 5 hours ago

Senior Maintenance Engineer

MI - Zeeland

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

MillerKnoll is committed to design for the good of humankind, and they are seeking a Senior Maintenance Engineer to provide engineering leadership and expertise within machine maintenance. The role involves coaching maintenance engineering tasks, managing strategic objectives for maintenance teams, and ensuring operational excellence in safety, quality, and reliability.

Design

No H1B

Responsibilities

Coaches and mentors maintenance engineering tasks and skills to others

Ability to take good notes; showing work and assumptions

Ability to use originality and ingenuity to apply solutions

Applies advanced engineering skills to work assignments

Lead, define, and complete complex problem-solving tasks with minimal oversight of leadership

Apply advanced problem-solving skills with an understanding of MKPS and its principles

Applies and teaches problem tools (8-Step, PDCA, Water-Fall Charting, 5 Why, Critical Eye, etc.)

Applies advanced supply chain cost, value stream capabilities and economic principles

Ability to develop, write, justify, and submit capital and expense requests

Completes engineering tasks with no supervision. Able to guide and assist other team members

Exercises considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of an assignment

Identifies opportunities and owns proactive improvements to machines, maintenance, and parts

Leads, defines and completes complex engineering tasks with minimal oversight of leadership

Follows all machine safety practices, guidelines, principles, with an emphasis on improved and enhanced machine safety

Follows engineering and quality processes

Conducts feasibility studies, determine manpower, cost estimates, and develop engineering criteria for machine maintenance sites

Seeks and receives mentoring from maintenance leadership

Seeks approval of budget using appropriate request process

Makes sound judgments using basic ingenuity and technical knowledge

Emphasis will be placed on team participation, ability to plan, and ability to achieve results on assigned projects

Knowledge of State and Federal Regulations regarding machine maintenance principles and programs

Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives

Qualification

HMISCADA systemsMES Software packagesPythonLean principlesC#HTMLSQLPredictive maintenancePreventative maintenanceTeam leadershipProblem solvingCommunication skillsProject management

Required

Bachelor's degree and/or associate degree with 10+ years of related maintenance experience in a Manufacturing Environment

Experience in programming/developing/configuring HMI and SCADA systems, preferably Ignition

Experience working with MES Software packages

Experience and knowledge in Python, C#, HTML, JSON, RESTful Web APIs, and SQL

Engineering/Technical degree from an accredited program

10+ years of professional engineering experience

Exposure to project management concepts may be essential for some assignments

Advanced knowledge in Lean principles, and application (MKPS)

Advanced knowledge of preventative maintenance, its principles, and application

Advanced knowledge of predictive maintenance, its principles, and application

Advanced knowledge of asset management, its principles, and application

Problem solving with emphasis on getting to root cause and implementing effective countermeasures

Must be able to assess process concepts and to determine where continuous improvement opportunities exist

Must be able to communicate effectively with people at various levels including production, engineering, and management and to be able to work well with and develop a partnering relationship with other team members

Knowledge in the use of common office automation, communication, software and tools, MillerKnoll mainframe applications and engineering related software

Must be an effective team leader, able to set team goals and commitments, and hold team members accountable for their assigned tasks

At the direction of supervision must be able to effectively react to changing priorities and work flow and be able to anticipate, recognize, and respond effectively to changes which affect project plans

Must have an overall business sense and understand how decisions impact business results

Must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without accommodation