Equipment Engineer III

Job Title: Equipment Engineer III

Location: Hickory NC 28601

Duration: 339 days

Shift Timings: M-F 8-5pm

Note: Local Candidates

Summary of Job:

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.

Must-have/Required skills:

• 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

Nice-to-have skills:

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

Key responsibilities and duties:

• 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
• 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• Identify obsolete superseded or redundant parts
• 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