Engineer I Maintenance

Would you like to join a dynamic, fast growing and challenging company?

CTR/Hayco is a multinational manufacturing company looking for an Engineer I Maintenance  to join our Engineering team in Portugal.

Job Purpose

To ensure the reliability, availability and optimal performance of production equipment and assets by developing and implementing effective preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance strategies. The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for driving continuous improvement initiatives, reducing equipment downtime and failures, supporting production efficiency, and contributing to the optimization, modernization and long-term sustainability of manufacturing processes, while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental and food safety standards.

Responsabilities

• Develops and implements preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance strategies and tasks to maximize equipment availability, reliability and production performance;
• Monitors and analyzes maintenance KPIs such as OEE, MTBF, MTTR and downtime trends, identifying and implementing improvement actions;
• Leads root cause analysis activities for equipment failures and recurring breakdowns, ensuring sustainable corrective and preventive actions are implemented;
• Supports troubleshooting activities on filling, labeling, capping, coding and packaging equipment (filling, assembly and packaging processes), minimizing production downtime;
• Participates in the installation, commissioning, validation and ramp-up of new production equipment and line upgrades;
• Collaborates with Production, Quality and Engineering teams to improve equipment reliability, process stability and operational efficiency;
• Identifies opportunities for automation, modernization and optimization of production assets;
• Develops and maintains maintenance procedures, work instructions, equipment standards and technical documentation;
• Ensures preventive maintenance tasks are properly planned, executed and continuously optimized through CMMS tools (Fracttal);
• Supports spare parts management activities, ensuring critical components are identified and inventory levels are maintained to support business continuity;
• Drives TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) initiatives and promotes a proactive maintenance culture across the manufacturing organization;
• Supports continuous improvement projects focused on increasing line efficiency, reducing waste and improving asset utilization;
• Coordinates external contractors and service providers during maintenance interventions and improvement projects;
• Ensures all maintenance activities are conducted in compliance with safety, environmental and food safety requirements;Provides technical guidance and support to maintenance technicians and production teams.