Specialist, Machine Shop Facilities

Specialist, Machine Shop Facilities

Specialist, Machine Shop Facilities

The Role: The Specialist, Machine Shop facilities provides hands-on technical leadership and coordination for maintenance activities supporting machining assets, production equipment, and facility infrastructure. Key focus areas include safe work execution, equipment uptime and reliability, preventive maintenance recovery, SAP work-order discipline, technician and contractor coordination, troubleshooting, repair validation, and continuous improvement. The role also conducts routine preventive maintenance audits, leads root cause analysis for recurring and high-impact failures, and optimizes preventive maintenance plans using equipment condition, failure history, OEM recommendations, and audit findings.

In this role you will:

• Provide daily technical direction and work coordination for maintenance technicians and outside service providers supporting Machine Shop and facility equipment.
• Set daily work priorities, allocate available labor, conduct pass-downs, and follow up to verify work completion and quality.
• Coordinate corrective, preventive, predictive, and emergency maintenance activities based on safety, production impact, and equipment criticality.
• Serve as the primary maintenance contact for Machine Shop production leadership regarding equipment status, repair priorities, downtime escalation, and return-to-service communication.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, controls, and machining-equipment failures with support from Engineering, Production, vendors, and the maintenance team.
• Validate repairs with Production before equipment is returned to service and confirm that required safeguards and operating conditions are restored.
• Restore and sustain preventive maintenance execution for Machine Shop assets, including schedule compliance, completion review, and backlog follow-up.
• Identify opportunities to improve or create preventive maintenance procedures based on repeat failures, equipment condition, OEM recommendations, and maintenance history.
• Walk production and maintenance areas routinely to identify abnormal equipment conditions, safety concerns, housekeeping needs, and developing reliability risks.
• Ensure SAP work orders contain clear problem descriptions, accurate labor and material usage, repair details, failure information, and timely closeout.
• Maintain visibility of open work, aging backlog, schedule adherence, equipment downtime, repeat failures, and overdue preventive maintenance.
• Escalate recurring or high-impact failures and support root cause analysis, corrective-action development, and verification of completed actions.
• Coordinate contractor access, downtime windows, permits, site requirements, work scope, field execution, and acceptance of completed work.
• Confirm contractor work is completed safely, within the approved scope, and at the expected quality before final acceptance.
• Identify critical spare-parts needs and support proper stocking levels for equipment with high downtime or long-lead replacement risk.
• Identify opportunities to transfer contractor knowledge and repair capability to the internal maintenance team.
• Support equipment criticality reviews, PM optimization, Total Productive Maintenance activities, and maintenance KPI follow-through.
• Train and coach technicians and operators on equipment care, troubleshooting methods, safe work practices, inspection routines, and documentation expectations.
• Reinforce safe work permits, non-standard work controls, lockout/tagout requirements, required PPE, housekeeping, and approved safety procedures.
• Support installation and commissioning of new equipment, retrofits, equipment relocations, and facility capital projects.
• Partner with Maintenance Planning, Production, Engineering, EHS, and Procurement to coordinate parts, resources, work windows, and technical support.
• Identify opportunities to reduce avoidable downtime, overtime recovery, emergency purchases, repeat repairs, and contractor dependence.
• Work independently or as part of a cross-functional team and adjust priorities as production and business needs change.
• Participate in after-hours support, planned shutdowns, weekend work, and emergency response when required.

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