Maintenance engineer job description is very complex, he is the person that plans the routine maintenance of plant, equipments and machineries. He / she also attend breakdowns, diagnose faults and oversee time critical repairs on the equipment.

In a very complex plants, maintenance engineers usually employ sophisticated, computerized systems to schedule the work order. They may also oversee the work of teams of maintenance personnel, such as supervisor, foreman, fitters and technicians.

Maintenance engineer sometime also be involved in all stages of manufacturing. For the equipment development process, they may also work to incorporate efficient methods of maintaining new equipment or plant, and may be involved in the installation and commissioning process of equipment. In the production phase, they work to improve the useful life of plant, equipments and machineries.

Typical work activities of maintenance engineer

Maintenance engineer job description usually being stated clearly by HR since this field of engineering plays a vital role in the efficiency, development and progress of manufacturing or processing businesses. Maintenance engineers work with other professionals department, such as manufacturing systems engineers and production managers for improving production facilities, reduce the incidence of costly breakdowns, and develop strategies to improve overall reliability and safety of plant, personnel and production processes.

High-risk business industries such as nuclear, petrochemical and aviation, have well-developed reliability strategies. In traditional industries, maintenance engineer promote the improvement of overall reliability, in addition to responding to breakdowns.

Throughout industries world, maintenance engineer and technicians specializing in information and communications technology (ICT), deal with hardware: PCs, servers, routers, etc. and their maintenance installation, and or with software: to resolve network problems over local and wide area networks, configuring systems, installing upgrades on a planned schedule, and providing advice and support to computer users.

Maintenance engineer job description may also be called upon to develop plant asset care policies, which means liaising closely with vendors, clients, other departments and senior managers.

In some posts of industries, maintenance engineer job description may also involves practical, hands-on engineering, problem-solving, and supervising technical staff.

Another typical maintenance engineers job description include:

• design maintenance strategies, procedures, work instruction, and methods;
• writing maintenance strategies to help with installation and commissioning guidelines.
• Creating work order for planning and scheduling planned and unplanned work for maintenance of equipments and machineries.
• diagnosing breakdown problems on the equipments.
• directing, instructing and supervising maintenance technicians and fitters to get the job done correctly.
• monitoring and controlling maintenance costs.
• liaising with client departments and customers.
• arranging specialist procurement of fixtures, fittings or components.
• controlling maintenance tools, stores and equipment.