Staff Facilities Mechanical Engineer

Position Summary

The Staff Facilities Mechanical Engineer serves as the site's technical leader for mechanical reliability, plant utilities, maintenance excellence, and asset performance. The role provides technical leadership across rotating equipment, pumps, compressors, HVAC, boilers, steam, chilled-water, compressed-air, hydraulic, pneumatic, and related facility and manufacturing systems. The position drives equipment uptime, reliability, predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, energy and cost reduction, and continuous improvement while supporting safe and compliant operations. The engineer develops long-term mechanical asset replacement and capital improvement plans, supports capital projects from concept through turnover, and partners with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, Maintenance, Procurement, contractors, equipment suppliers, and external service providers. The successful candidate applies reliability tools, project-management practices, data, and engineering best practices to improve lifecycle performance, workforce capability, production continuity, and facility readiness.

This position requires travel of up to 50% domestically

What You'll Do as a Staff Facilities Mechanical Engineer

18% of the time

Leads mechanical facilities engineering support for manufacturing equipment and plant utility systems, including rotating equipment, pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, gearboxes, conveyors, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, boilers, steam, chilled water, compressed air, HVAC, water treatment, air-handling units, filtration, humidification, dehumidification, exhaust, make-up air, and pressure-control systems.

15% of the time

Develops, leads, and sustains the site's Mechanical Reliability Excellence program. Creates and executes reliability strategies for critical assets using preventive, predictive, condition-based, and reliability-centered maintenance to improve uptime, maintainability, lifecycle performance, and overall equipment effectiveness.

14% of the time

Leads troubleshooting, Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), FMEA, Weibull analysis, vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and asset-criticality assessments for complex mechanical and utility-system issues.

12% of the time

Develops plant utility and HVAC infrastructure strategies, standards, specifications, capacity plans, reliability plans, energy-efficiency initiatives, and lifecycle recommendations for safe, compliant, maintainable, and cost-effective operations.

15% of the time

Leads and supports capital projects by developing business justification, project scope, cost estimates, schedules, resource plans, technical requirements, and risk assessments; reviews designs and vendor proposals; coordinates procurement, construction, shutdowns, installation, commissioning, startup, qualification, turnover, and closeout.

10% of the time

Manages multiple engineering projects and priorities to scope, schedule, budget, safety, quality, and operational requirements. Coordinates Engineering, Facilities, Maintenance, Operations, EHS, Quality, Procurement, contractors, suppliers, and external partners; communicates status, risks, decisions, and recovery plans.

10% of the time

Evaluates and deploys Industry 4.0 technologies, Industrial IoT solutions, smart sensors, condition monitoring, predictive analytics, building automation, and asset performance management tools. Tracks uptime, downtime, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance compliance, equipment availability, utility efficiency, and maintenance cost.

6% of the time

Ensures work complies with applicable safety, environmental, quality, engineering, and regulatory requirements, including OSHA, EPA, ASME, NFPA, ISO 14644, ISO 9001, ISO 13485, and applicable codes. Provides technical coaching and reliability best-practice training to engineers, maintenance personnel, contractors, and cross-functional teams.

The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• 20+ years of facilities, mechanical, utility, reliability, maintenance, plant, or manufacturing engineering experience.
• 10+ years of experience Mechanical facilities, plant utilities, reliability, maintenance, or manufacturing engineering in manufacturing or regulated operations.
• 10+ years of experience Rotating equipment, pumps, compressors, HVAC, boilers, steam, chilled water, compressed air, hydraulic, pneumatic, and related mechanical systems.
• 10+ years of experience Reliability engineering and predictive maintenance using RCM, RCFA, FMEA, vibration analysis, condition monitoring, MTBF, and MTTR.
• 10+ years of experience Capital project scope development, technical design review, budgeting, scheduling, vendor and contractor coordination, commissioning, startup, and turnover.
• 10+ years of experience Project management of multiple cross-functional engineering initiatives involving scope, schedule, budget, risk, procurement, construction, and stakeholder communication.

Preferred

• 15+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, food and beverage, semiconductor, automotive, chemical, life-sciences, healthcare, FDA-regulated, ISO-certified, or advanced manufacturing operations.
• 15+ years of experience with building automation, Industrial IoT, smart sensors, predictive analytics, CMMS, energy reduction, or asset performance management programs.
• Professional Engineer, CRE, CMRP, PMP, Certified Energy Manager, or Six Sigma certification.
• 10+ years of experience with strong technical judgment, complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, project planning, capital project support, contractor management, vendor evaluation, risk management, and communication.
• 10+ years of experience to read and interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, specifications, sequences of operation, equipment manuals, utility diagrams, bid packages, codes, and standards.

Pay range for this opportunity is $124,737.50 - $161,425.00. This position is eligible for bonus participation.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits

Open until position is filled.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.