Maintenance Engineer

Join a global industry leader with six high-performing chemical plants and a state-of-the-art laboratory—where innovation, safety, and reliability power progress. This is your opportunity to take on technical responsibility across multiple manufacturing sites in beautiful Eastern North Carolina, an area known for its natural charm and exceptional quality of life.

The company offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and full relocation assistance for the right candidate.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Be part of a world-class maintenance and reliability team supporting a network of dynamic chemical and milling plants.
• Lead programs that directly impact safety, uptime, and asset performance.
• Enjoy a strong culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and collaboration.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the technical authority for rotating equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Own the site vibration analysis program, including technician training, data interpretation, and corrective balancing for rotating assets.
• Lead and optimize the lubrication program, setting vendor performance goals and driving best practices.
• Provide engineering support for preventive maintenance (PM), repairs, and reliability upgrades on both fixed and rotating equipment.
• Partner with Maintenance leadership on process improvement, budgeting, performance tracking, and small capital projects.
• Conduct failure analyses to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
• Develop and maintain maintenance documentation, job plans, BOMs, and repair procedures for critical equipment.
• Ensure all work meets PSM and safety compliance standards, performing audits and coaching best practices.
• Collaborate with preferred OEMs, contractors, and engineering consultants for reliability initiatives.

What You Bring

• BS in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering required.
• 7+ years of maintenance and/or reliability engineering experience in chemical, mineral, refinery, pulp & paper, or other PSM-regulated industries.
• 3+ years of hands-on vibration analysis and lubrication program leadership.
• PE license preferred.
• Project management experience a plus.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.

The Impact

You’ll play a key role in keeping critical production assets running safely and efficiently across multiple facilities—helping this industry leader maintain its world-class standards of reliability, safety, and operational excellence.