Experience

Manufacturing Asset Solutions | MAS

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Maintenance Engineer - Enterprise Asset Management

  • Jun 2005 - Present

  Maintenance Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying engineering concepts for the optimization of equipment, procedures, and departmental budgets to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment. Maintenance, and hence maintenance engineering, is increasing in importance due to rising amounts of equipment, systems, machineries and infrastructure. Since the Industrial Revolution, devices, equipment, machinery and structures have grown increasingly complex, requiring a host of personnel, vocations and related systems needed to maintain them.[1] Prior to 2006, the United States spent approximately US$300 billion annually on plant maintenance and operations alone.[1] Maintenance is to ensure a unit is fit for purpose, with maximum availability at minimum costs. A person practicing maintenance engineering is known as a maintenance engineer. A maintenance engineer should possess significant knowledge of statistics, probability and logistics, and additionally in the fundamentals of the operation of the equipment and machinery he or she is responsible for. A maintenance engineer should also possess high interpersonal, communication, and management skills, as well as the ability to make decisions quickly. Typical responsibilities include: - Assure optimization of the Maintenance Organization structure - Analysis of repetitive equipment failures - Estimation of maintenance costs and evaluation of alternatives - Forecasting of spare parts - Assessing the needs for equipment replacements and establish replacement programs when due - Application of scheduling and project management principles to replacement programs - Assessing required maintenance tools and skills required for efficient maintenance of equipment - Assessing required skills for maintenance personnel - Reviewing personnel transfers to and from maintenance organizations - Assessing and reporting safety hazards associated with maintenance of equipment Show less