Maintenance Engineer (Part-Time)

Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2024 revenue of approximately $9.4 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit www.eastman.com.

Responsibilities

This is a part-time position for approximately 25 hours per week.

• Participate in the daily/weekly manufacturing meetings to gain understanding of maintenance challenges and opportunities
• Assist in reviewing and updating training documentation as requested
• Drive continuous improvement of maintenance procedures and checklists
• Support daily and weekly priority-based scheduling
• Own spare parts strategy to optimize tradeoffs between inventory commitment and equipment reliability
• Identify tools and methodology for preventative and predictive maintenance downtime
• Perform and support asset criticality assessments for assigned areas
• Develop and maintain asset management strategies for equipment in assigned areas
• Drive reduction in mean time to repair for critical equipment failures
• Support immediate production reliability events as they arise
• Originate and develop analysis to rapidly repair equipment by studying operating and repair manuals
• Acquire failure data and prepare maintenance plans for restoring equipment to operation condition in a minimum amount of time
• Gather and examine maintainability data to develop well-defined repair techniques, principles and maintenance procedures
• Prepare general diagrams, charts drawings and spare parts requirements for Maintenance Planners
• Make recommendations for improving equipment repair cycle times
• Determine cost advantages of alternatives and develop action plans that comply with demands for timely repairs of equipment
• Perform detailed maintainability studies and calculations of complexity/system downtime. Help establish good maintenance practices
• Initiate elemental engineering studies into equipment/process repair time and present findings and recommendations to leadership
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering required
• At least 2 years of relevant Mechanical Engineering experience in a manufacturing environment required
  
  

Eastman will not accept applicants for this offered position who require visa sponsorship, including those whose status is F-1 visa OPT who subsequently would require ongoing visa sponsorship.

Eastman Chemical Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected classes as designated by law.

Eastman is committed to creating a highly engaged workforce, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.