Project Manager – Plant Engineering

Title - Project Manager – Plant Engineering

Location: Houston, Texas

Function: Manufacturing Engineering / Maintenance & Reliability

Reports to: Plant Engineering / Maintenance Manager

Work Arrangement: On-site

Position Summary:

• We are seeking an experienced Plant Maintenance & Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, availability, maintainability and performance of manufacturing and utility assets at our Angleton, Texas manufacturing facility.
• The facility manufactures powder coatings for metals, rebar, pipelines and other corrosion-resistant applications. The role will support a highly automated manufacturing environment involving process equipment, material handling systems, motors, drives, pumps, conveyors, extruders, valves, hydraulic/pneumatic systems, electrical systems and industrial control systems.
• The successful candidate will combine mechanical, electrical, controls, automation and reliability engineering to transition the plant from reactive maintenance toward a data-driven, predictive and condition-based maintenance culture.
• This position will work closely with Production, Maintenance, Process Engineering, Quality, EHS, IT/OT and equipment suppliers

Key Responsibilities:

• Asset Reliability & Maintenance Strategy
• Manufacturing Equipment Reliability
• Provide engineering support for equipment including:
• Develop equipment-specific maintenance strategies, inspection standards, spare-parts strategies and failure-prevention plans.
• Electrical, Controls & Automation
• Work closely with controls and maintenance personnel to troubleshoot and improve industrial automation systems.
• Predictive & Condition-Based Maintenance
• Identify critical assets suitable for online condition monitoring and IIoT-enabled predictive maintenance.
• CMMS & Maintenance Data
• Establish effective equipment hierarchies and asset master data within the CMMS.
• Improve preventive-maintenance plans and job plans.
• Maintenance Planning & Execution
• Partner with Maintenance Supervisors and Technicians to plan corrective and preventive work.
• OT / Digital Manufacturing
• Partner with Plant IT/OT and Automation Engineering to advance the plant's digital manufacturing capabilities.
• Identify practical opportunities to use plant data to predict failures rather than react to them.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, Controls Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing maintenance, reliability, plant engineering or industrial automation.
• Experience reading mechanical drawings, electrical schematics and P&IDs.
• Working knowledge of CMMS systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.