Maintenance Engineer

Job Title: Maintenance Engineer

Job Location:  Louisville, KY

Job type: Permanent

Type of role: On-Site

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as Maintenance Engineer

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the Specialty Chemical Industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

As a Maintenance Engineer, you'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Your work will directly impact Maintenance programs at our Louisville, KY Facility.

What We're Looking For:

• Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in equipment failures and repair techniques during root cause investigations
• Provides technical expertise to plant personnel on troubleshooting failures, repairs, and evaluating    whether equipment is designed to meet its intended or existing service conditions.
• For equipment that is critical for the process, ensure that work requests include engineering input on repair details such as clearances, tolerances, materials of construction, welding procedures, etc. Provides onsite / offsite technical support for deviations from this data if necessary.
  Ensures repairs, repair techniques, and equipment-specific training are made available and documented.
• Provides technical support for specification, identification, and purchasing of required parts.
• Provides maintainability input into Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) strategy.
• Participates with Reliability Engineer in developing facility and equipment maintenance strategies.
• Receives and reviews History Feedback form Crafts when unusual findings are noted.
• Serves as a technical resource to the planner and crafts as needed.
• Updates the MMS system for new equipment and changes to existing equipment resulting from projects based on the equipment data provided by the project team.
• Ensures that scheduled services are entered into the MMS based upon the equipment maintenance strategy or reviews of new equipment that is being installed.
• Drives completion % of PPM tasks and advises the Plant Supervision and Reliability Engineer of any issues impacting the effectiveness of the PPM program. Send report of non-compliance PMs that were skipped monthly.
• Enters notifications for deficiencies discovered during PMs.
• Manages PM deferral process for Compliance related PMs.
• Evaluates the documented results of PPM activities to determine if the PPM activity is achieving the desired results. Answers the, “Is the PM the correct type of PM for the equipment / service?”
• Identifies opportunities to optimize PPM intervals and works with the Reliability Engineer to evaluate the impact of changing PPM intervals upon probability and consequences (i.e. risk). Answers the question, “Is the frequency correct?
• Supports projects and ensures spare parts requirements are updated for both new and demolished equipment.
• Understands the economic impact of decisions associated with the PPM program and spare parts and provides technical input in developing the Maintenance budget.

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related field.
• Experience in  Chemical Manufacturing facility.
• Familiarity with Preventative maintenance strategy and activities.

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.