Maintenance Engineer

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 402,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2017). The company generated sales of $88.2 billion in 2017. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology.

As part of the Mobilitity Solutions division, the Florence KY plant is one of the world's leading automotive steering supplier locations. Robert Bosch Automotive Steering LLC is growing in the market and continues to innovate and develop new products to meet customer needs.

SUMMARY

The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for supporting the preparation and ramp-up of series production, executing system procurement, managing maintenance tasks, and ensuring spare parts availability. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the readiness of manufacturing systems and the seamless transition from development to series production while maintaining high equipment uptime and efficiency through both planned and unplanned maintenance activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Maintains backlog of planned and unplanned jobs in Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Considers safety procedures when planning and scheduling work and includes where necessary into job plans
• Drives weekly meetings between MFO, MFE, Maintenance Group Lead for prioritization of planned work and preventative maintenance.  Screens requested work against requirement.
• Develops weekly work schedule for PM’s and planned work from work order backlog in coordination with MFO and Maintenance Group Lead.
• Participates in the creation of PM’s, enters PM into CMMS, maintains and improves existing PM’s/PdM’s for equipment reliability
• Train associates in the use of CMMS maintenance module
• Support Total Productive Maintenance (MM-630.14) implementation. 
• Ensures equipment BOM’s are accurate and updates as necessary.  Completes initial spare part quoting and request of spare part setup on new equipment.
• Develops and maintains equipment entity structure in CMMS.
• Develops and maintains equipment risk assessment, incl. retrofitting potentials.
• Develops and initiates predictive maintenance using risk assessment and historic maintenance work orders to identify location of interest.
• Identifies potential for improvement using available data together with the Maintenance Group Lead.
• Provides necessary KPI calculation for maintenance. As a minimum, this includes: planned maintenance (PM02s and PM03s), breakdowns, set-ups / adjustments, minor breakdowns, machine release after set-up, tool change /
• Ensures proper resources are alerted and scheduled as required
• Participate in maintenance improvement initiatives.
• Receives all work notifications and screens them for proper information including: work scope, realistic priority, realistic requested completion date, accurate entity assignment.  Routinely adjusts (cleans) notification backlog by rejecting/deleting notifications that don’t meet the required acceptance criteria.  As a minimum, this is to occur on a monthly basis, with a follow up e-mail to the originator.
• Participate in training, maintenance and upgrading of maintenance systems.
• Estimates job requirements in manpower, specialized tools, materials and resources and develops work plan with Maintenance Group Lead.  Focuses on best use of time and resources.
• Collect Maintenance cost, Downtime, and Equipment Availability monthly. Review for trends Maint. Group Lead. Also tracks availability losses, capacity analysis, actual hours by type, schedule compliance, OEE, job, completed by type, and over time
• Generates and post necessary maintenance metric graphs in the maintenance shop.

• Obtains technical information such as blueprints, instruction manuals, drawings, tolerances etc., to be used for work planning.  Identifies, obtains and packages materials for planned work including parts, materials, documentation and special instructions.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, maintenance, or production support roles.
• Strong knowledge of TPM, planned/unplanned maintenance, and system procurement processes.
• Ability to interpret technical designs and production planning documentation.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and structured work methodology.
• Experience with MAE (Manufacturing and Assembly Equipment) design. 
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, TPM and standardized work principles. 

  Qualifications/Competency:

  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS and ABILITIES

Language Skills:

• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills with a strong ambition to drive projects. 

Mathematical Skills:

• Advanced math skills required to interpret analytics and prediction tools.

Reasoning Ability:

• Individual must have ability to make independent decisions that may be of a complex nature. 

Leadership Skills:

• Must possess good team and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to act as a member of the management team in addition to performing duties as directed by the department manager.  Ability to coach and mentor the Associates on the Assembly / Manufacturing lines in your area(s) of responsibility. Ability to assist the department manager in fulfilling the specific objectives and goals set for the Business Unit.

Computer Skills:

• Proficient use of the following:  Microsoft Office Products, especially Excel; the Bosch Quote system and E-works ordering parts against work orders.
• Familiarity with IT tools for maintenance tracking and spare parts management.
• Interest in continued learning of data analytics and prediction software.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• N/A

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Individual must possess the interpersonal skills communicate with coworkers.

Indefinite U.S. work authorized individuals only. Future sponsorship for work authorization unavailable.

Robert Bosch Automotive Steering, LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.