Job Title: Equipment Engineer III
Duration: 12 Contract with possible extension
Location: Hickory, NC
Job Description:
- The Maintenance Spare Parts Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining a reliable, cost-effective spare parts program that supports equipment uptime and reduces maintenance-related downtime. This role focuses on identifying critical spares, improving spare parts accuracy, and aligning inventory levels with asset criticality using a phased, realistic approach. The technician works closely with maintenance, reliability, and procurement teams to ensure the right parts are available at the right time.
Required education and years of Experience:
- 7+ years of experience.
- Experience in maintenance, inventory, storeroom, or industrial operations.
- Working knowledge of mechanical and electrical spare parts.
- Familiarity with CMMS/EAM systems and work order processes.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to organize technical information.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with maintenance and procurement teams.
- Comfortable working in the field as well as with systems and data.
Key Responsibilities:
- Stabilize Spare Parts (0–3 Months).
- Identify top 10–20 critical assets based on downtime and operational impact.
- Develop minimum viable spare parts lists for critical equipment.
- Capture parts used on work orders and link them to asset records in the CMMS.
- Conduct field inspections and use photos to verify parts where documentation is missing.
- Reduce stockouts by focusing on high-risk, high-use, and long lead-time items Optimize Spare Parts Data (3–9 Months).
- Build and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs) for rotating and critical equipment (motors, pumps, gearboxes).
- Identify long lead-time components and support appropriate stocking decisions.
- Standardize common spare parts across similar assets where possible.
- Validate spare parts information with maintenance technicians to capture tribal knowledge.
