Maintenance Engineer Specialist

You will be a technically skilled engineer supporting the activities of the Operations Technical area.

Your role will focus on ensuring the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of production equipment through robust maintenance and operation documentation, troubleshooting, and lessons learned. You will define spare parts strategies, drive mechanical and electrical improvements, support the ramp‑up of new equipment in the factory, and develop deep process expertise—strongly rooted in automation, robotics, and precision mechanics.

Major areas of accountability – ramp up phase

• Understand and learn about the technical processes and lines to be implemented in Portugal
• Participate in setting up the maintenance processes in the Portuguese site
• Define the correct spare parts and their stock level for the machines to receive
• Assure the correct level of documentation needed for the validation of the machines
• Assist and support the validation process of the first lines
• Assure the correct ramp up of the machines in the production phase
• Participate in the training of the maintenance technicians, assuring the proper knowledge transfer

Major areas of accountability

• Professional supervision of the equipment and machinery in the production area.
• Ensure the execution of scheduled maintenance activities.
• Responsible for planning of maintenance of assigned production machines.
• Responsible for keeping up to date the maintenance program on the ERP system (E1).
• Organization of technical trainings for other employees where required.
• Exploring and solving technical problems together with suppliers, technical staff, and operators.
• Analyzing and improvement of technical processes, production machines and equipment.
• Ensure to meet the required levels of Safety, Quality, Output and Cost.
• Installation, assembly & commissioning of production equipment and lines.
• Support technicians in discovering failures, quick and professional troubleshooting.
• Responsible for keeping up to date the maintenance program of the assigned production machines.
• Support validation tasks related to machines and processes: Maintenance, Operations Instruction, etc.
• Be the owner of Non-Conformities related with- the shop floor (NC´s) and CAPA
• Coordinate spare parts purchasing, defining minimum/reorder point for spare parts.
• Generate and follow-up of OR for spare parts, tools and other equipment required to run the machines.
• Generate work orders for parts to be produced in the Tool Shop
• Create and/or review documents in the document control system (Veeva)
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert for the production process under her/his responsibility
• Attend to meetings as required
• Willing to provide support to the escalations from production floor when needed on off-hours.

Essential qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Polymer Engineering Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, with relevant experience in thermoplastic extrusion and/or injection molding.
• Experience in the development and troubleshooting of polymer processing, including root cause analysis, DOE (Design of Experiments), optimization, and definition of process windows.
• Ability to define, validate, and document process parameters, ensuring repeatability and industrial robustness.
• Development of production procedures, work instructions, setup, startup, shutdown, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Development of technical documentation for equipment, including line operation, preventive maintenance plans, and autonomous maintenance.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement tools and statistical analysis (SPC, Minitab, DOE, FMEA are a plus).
• Experience in a regulated environment (medical devices, automotive, or high-demand industries) is a plus.
• Computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite, ERP Systems)
• Good English knowledge