Advanced Facilities Mechanical Engineer
Steris· Medical Devices· Sep 15, 2026 · 1mo ago
Sanford, North Carolina
In office
Full-time
Staff
$108K–$139K
8+ years exp
Job description
Position Summary
The Advanced Facilities Mechanical Engineer serves as the site’s technical leader for mechanical reliability, maintenance excellence, and asset performance. This role drives equipment uptime, reliability, predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing and facility operations while supporting safety, cost reduction, and workforce development.
What You'll Do as an Advanced Facilities Mechanical Engineer
• Lead mechanical reliability programs to improve equipment performance, availability, and lifecycle management.
• Serve as the primary technical expert for troubleshooting complex mechanical systems, including pumps, compressors, HVAC, boilers, utilities, rotating equipment, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
• Develop and optimize preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs using RCFA, FMEA, RCM, Weibull analysis, and asset criticality assessments.
• Implement predictive maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, ultrasound, and condition monitoring systems.
• Evaluate and deploy Industry 4.0 technologies, Industrial IoT solutions, smart sensors, predictive analytics, and asset performance management tools.
• Monitor and improve key reliability metrics including uptime, downtime, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance compliance, and maintenance costs.
• Lead Lean, Six Sigma, and reliability improvement initiatives focused on reducing costs, improving efficiency, and extending asset life.
• Develop maintenance personnel through technical training, mentoring, skills assessments, and best-practice reliability programs.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, ASME, NFPA, and company engineering standards.
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The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in facilities, reliability, maintenance, or manufacturing engineering.
• Strong expertise in mechanical systems, rotating equipment, reliability engineering, and predictive maintenance technologies.
• Proven success leading troubleshooting, asset reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
• PE, CRE, CMRP, PMP, or Six Sigma certification; experience in pharmaceutical, food & beverage, semiconductor, automotive, chemical, or advanced manufacturing environments.
Success Measures
• Improved equipment reliability and uptime, reduced downtime and maintenance costs, increased MTBF, reduced MTTR, enhanced utility efficiency, measurable cost savings, workforce capability growth, and strong safety and compliance performance.
Pay range for this opportunity is $107,525.00 - $139,150.00. This position is eligible for bonus participation.
Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.
STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits
Open until position is filled.
STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com .
If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.
STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.
The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.
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