Mechanical Engineer

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Sinton, TX, USA
In-Office
Entry level
Manufacturing
The Role
Mechanical Engineer responsible for supervising maintenance personnel, troubleshooting and improving mechanical equipment reliability, planning maintenance activities and outages, managing budgets and contractors, leading continuous improvement, and executing capital projects from concept through commissioning. The role focuses on safety, equipment uptime, cost control, production support, and mechanical upgrades within a steel manufacturing environment.
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SubsidiarySteel Dynamics Responsibilities
  • Safety & Leadership
  • Identify and eliminate safety hazards through design, maintenance, and procedural improvements.
  • Lead by example to reinforce SDI’s safety culture.
  • Support all components of the Take Control of Safety initiative.
  • Supervise and support mechanical maintenance personnel in daily, down day, and outage. Maintenance & Reliability
  • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve mechanical issues across all line equipment.
  • Lead root cause failure analysis and implement corrective actions.
  • Develop and improve preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies to increase reliability and uptime. Planning & Maintenance Execution
  • Plan and coordinate maintenance activities, down days, and outages, including leading planning meetings.
  • Work directly with the Maintenance Coordinator to prioritize and execute work, define job scope, and allocate resources.
  • Align maintenance activities with production needs and equipment criticality.
  • Own and manage monthly maintenance budget, driving cost control.
  • Coordinate and direct contractor work during maintenance activities and outages. Holding accountability for safety, quality, and execution.
  • Engineering & Continuous Improvement
  • Identify opportunities to improve equipment performance, reduce downtime, and lower maintenance costs.
  • Design and implement mechanical upgrades, retrofits, and process improvements.
  • Utilize IBA data and field observations to drive continuous improvement initiatives. Capital Projects & Execution
  • Lead Capital projects from concept through commissioning, including scope development, budgeting, justification, and scheduling.
  • Develop projects from concepts through commissioning, including development, budgeting, justification, and scheduling.
  • Manage contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders throughout all phases of the project.
  • Oversee installation, startup, and commissioning to ensure system meet performance and safety expectations.
  • Track project costs and schedule to ensure delivery on time and within budget.
  • Identify and execute high – impact projects that improve safety, reliability, and production throughout.
Qualifications
  • 4 - year Engineering or Engineering Technology degree

Steel Dynamics, Inc., and all affiliated entities are equal opportunity employers.

Skills Required

  • Four-year Engineering or Engineering Technology degree
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The Company
HQ: Fort Wayne, IN
4,239 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

Steel Dynamics is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in the United States, based on estimated annual steelmaking and metals recycling capability, with facilities located throughout the United States, and in Mexico. Steel Dynamics produces steel products, including hot roll, cold roll, and coated sheet steel, structural steel beams and shapes, rail, engineered special-bar-quality steel, cold finished steel, merchant bar products, specialty steel sections and steel joists and deck. In addition, the company produces liquid pig iron and processes and sells ferrous and nonferrous scrap.

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