
maintenance engineer Fremont, CA
Job description
- Oversee, initiate, and provide maintenance strategy improvement activities in line with production-limiting events, planned outages, and sustaining corrective actions
- Oversee the development of a Total Predictive Maintenance (TPM) program for current, and future commissioning equipment lines; and the establishment of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in line with management needs
- Manage the corrective action and countermeasure planning directives for repetitive and rare production equipment limiters; and engage the correct cross-functional teams for corrective action planning and implementation
- Optimize product flow and line efficiency by designing or improving tools, jigs, stations, work methods and ergonomics using the 5S methodology regarding the maintaining and sustaining of industrial production equipment.
- Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering team, and Maintenance teams to initiate, and plan for critical, routine, and preventative maintenance plans for existing and new equipment line commissioning, as well as recovery process and procedure. Developing the PFMEA and identify correction actions to mitigate potential risks.
- Identify and drive continuous improvement and cost reduction programs.
- Utilize knowledge of hydraulic, electrical and mechanical assemblies to predict equipment failure modes and proactively set and establish preventative maintenance schedules.
- Work independently, with vendors, and with maintenance teams to understand root cause of failures, propose design or component changes, and implement and validate equipment modifications from a sustaining operations standpoint.
- Generate and maintain equipment maintenance specifications to assist maintenance technicians and leadership with documented recovery and sustaining plans in tandem with vendor/supplier documentation.
- Maintain tool and spare part BOMs and ensure proper part availability.
- Perform trials to test the effect of equipment improvements
- Actively use tool data sources (e.g. MFS, MES, FLUX reports) to quantitatively evaluate and track tool performance and create programs to improve relevant metrics under the guidance of Maintenance Manager(s).
- Drive other projects as needed by management or as business needs change
