Equipment Engineer III

Position: Equipment Engineer III, Req#: CRNGJP00029417

Internal Job title: Maintenance Spare Parts Engineer

Location: Hickory, NC, M-F 8 am-5 pm

Duration: 12  Months Contract with potential to extend

Job Description:

The Maintenance Spare Parts Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining a reliable, cost-effective spare parts program that supports equipment uptime and reduces maintenance-related downtime. This role focuses on identifying critical spares, improving spare parts accuracy, and aligning inventory levels with asset criticality using a phased, realistic approach. The technician works closely with maintenance, reliability, and procurement teams to ensure the right parts are available at the right time.

Required education and years of Experience:

• 7 years of experience
• Experience in maintenance, inventory, storeroom, or industrial operations
• Working knowledge of mechanical and electrical spare parts
• Familiarity with CMMS/EAM systems and work order processes
• Strong attention to detail and ability to organize technical information
• Ability to work cross-functionally with maintenance and procurement teams
• Comfortable working in the field as well as with systems and data

Preferred Experience:

• Experience building or maintaining asset BOMs
• Background in manufacturing, processing, utilities, or heavy industry
• Understanding of spare parts criticality and lead-time risk

What Success Looks Like

• Fewer maintenance delays due to missing parts
• Reduced emergency and expedited part orders
• Improved accuracy of spare parts and asset records
• Better alignment between maintenance needs and inventory levels

Support & Resources

• Clear asset priority guidance from leadership
• Protected time to focus on spare parts improvement activities
• Cross-functional support from maintenance and procurement
• Optional temporary support for data collection or BOM development

Key Responsibilities:

Stabilize Spare Parts (0-3 Months)

• Identify top 10-20 critical assets based on downtime and operational impact
• Develop minimum viable spare parts lists for critical equipment
• Capture parts used on work orders and link them to asset records in the CMMS
• Conduct field inspections and use photos to verify parts where documentation is missing
• Reduce stockouts by focusing on high-risk, high-use, and long lead-time items Optimize Spare Parts Data (3-9 Months)
• Build and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs) for rotating and critical equipment (motors, pumps, gearboxes)
• Identify long lead-time components and support appropriate stocking decisions
• Standardize common spare parts across similar assets where possible
• Validate spare parts information with maintenance technicians to capture tribal knowledge
• Identify obsolete, superseded, or redundant parts

Sustain & Improve the Program (9-24 Months)

• Support implementation of a criticality-based stocking strategy:
• Critical Spares (Always Stock)
• Operational Spares (Stock Based on Usage)
• Non-Critical Spares (Order on Demand)
• Obsolete/Legacy Parts (Special Handling)
• Participate in quarterly reviews of spare parts accuracy, usage, and inventory levels
• Help establish documentation standards for new and existing assets

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