Urgent Hiring || Fulltime Role || Mechanical Engineer || Graniteville, SC (Onsite).

Job Title: Mechanical Engineer

Location: Graniteville, SC (Onsite)

Salary: $130,000 per year

Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time

Position Overview

• We are seeking Mechanical Engineers at the Associate, Professional, and Senior levels to provide mechanical engineering expertise within a manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting production equipment, manufacturing systems, continuous improvement initiatives, and capital projects.
• This role will work closely with manufacturing, maintenance, operations, and engineering teams to improve equipment reliability, safety, efficiency, quality, and throughput

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering & Technical Leadership

• Research, plan, design, develop, and implement mechanical systems, equipment, and manufacturing processes.
• Provide mechanical engineering support for production equipment, utilities, and auxiliary systems.
• Analyze equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve safety, reliability, efficiency, quality, and throughput.
• Troubleshoot equipment-related issues and perform root cause analysis to develop effective corrective actions.
• Provide technical support and guidance to manufacturing, maintenance, and operational teams.
• Provide engineering input for new or modified systems, processes, and technologies.

Project Management:

• Lead or support capital and continuous improvement projects, including equipment modifications, upgrades, and major machine installations.
• Manage projects ranging from approximately $50K to $1M.
• Develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, and implementation plans.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure projects are completed safely, on time, and within budget.
• Support procurement activities, including vendor selection, RFQs, capital requests, and project cost tracking.
• Oversee equipment installation, startup, testing, validation, and project closeout.
• Plan and organize project activities involving budgets, manpower, equipment, and other resources.

Reliability & Continuous Improvement:

• Lead continuous improvement and corrective action activities with an emphasis on reducing scrap, waste, downtime, and operational losses.
• Evaluate existing equipment, systems, processes, and technologies to identify improvement opportunities.
• Lead reliability improvement initiatives and corrective action projects.
• Utilize engineering principles and data analysis to improve operational performance.
• Support preventive and predictive maintenance initiatives.
• Recommend modifications and enhancements to improve quality, efficiency, and equipment performance.

• Promote a strong safety culture by incorporating safety requirements into engineering activities
• Participate in risk assessments and machine safeguarding evaluations.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with applicable company standards, regulatory requirements, and engineering best practices.
• Support contractor safety and quality compliance during project execution.
• Ensure all applicable safety objectives and legal requirements are followed throughout project activities.

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering discipline preferred.
• Relevant mechanical engineering experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Experience with manufacturing equipment, machinery, mechanical systems, or plant utilities.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience with capital projects, equipment installations, upgrades, or modifications.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering and continuous improvement principles.
• Experience with project planning, budgeting, scheduling, and execution.
• Strong understanding of workplace safety and engineering standards.
• Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with manufacturing, maintenance, operations, contractors, and vendors.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite in Graniteville, SC .

Thanks, and regards

DS Rathour

Technical Recruiter

Zenox Global

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