Workshop Engineer In-situ & Tool Center; Houston

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Business Unit Parts and Field Service is a global organisation with harmonised ways of working and tools to deliver the best possible services for our  our global team we value, respect, and embrace different opinions and diversity. Safety, environment, and wellbeing are our foundation, and we never compromise them.

We are now looking for a Workshop Engineer to join our team in Houston, Texas

What will you be doing?

As a Workshop Engineer
, you will be responsible for safely and efficiently disassemble, thoroughly inspect, and precisely machine and rebuild a large variety of reciprocating engine components, repair and service machining tools etc. according to

Wärtsilä’s established guidelines and safety protocols.

This position reports to the Field Service Resources Team Leader for In-situ and Tool Center
.

Wärtsilä, a SMART technology company, is seeking the ideal candidate to join our fast- paced, high performance Field Service Operations coordination team (AMER). Candidates are expected to display a high level of critical thinking and reasoning skills, identify as high performers, as well as being self-motivating.

• Contribute to the execution of workshop service tasks, such as: overhauls, reconditioning, modification, cleaning, and machining of reciprocating engine components.
• Perform maintenance, redesign, upgrade, and machining work to our own equipment, as well as provide full support to ongoing customer projects that require machine shop services.
• Fully support every ongoing field service job by providing excellence in both delivery accuracy and speed of service.
• Gather technical information from TKB by accessing technical bulletins and operational / overhaul instruction from product manual.
• Access parts catalogue to find out parts required that needs to be ordered to support overhauling or repair of the component / equipment.
• Ensure that all activities in the workshop and on-site are carried out in accordance with the site safety rules and in compliance with the Company's Health and Safety standard ISO 45001:2018.
• Ensure that all work is carried out to ISO 9001:2015 standard.
• Be an integral part of the In-Situ machining team. Strive to achieve common goals and customer deadlines, whereby working overtime hours may be required.
• Adopt a pleasant, adaptable attitude towards any "ad-hoc" duties that may be required.
• Manage tool inventory, maintain/track in-situ machining and measuring tools. Tool coordination and equipment preparation, tracking.
• Responsible for in-situ equipment maintenance and condition, by utilizing idle workforce and external contractors when needed.
• Carry out proactive preventative maintenance tasks on plant equipment.
• Provide internal and external work reports according to Wärtsilä standards.
• Collect and organize time and expense reports.

• 3-5 years of job-related experience with marine diesel and/or dual fuel engines
• Experience with in a Mechanical/Maritime environment organization with an international scope is seen as an advantage.
• Good communication skills with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• A proactive individual who is not afraid to get stuck in.
• Good time management and organizational skills - able to effectively manage a dynamic workload.
• Able work effectively and efficiently independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experience in handling tools like valve grinding machine, seat cutting machines, honing machine etc is a must.
• Experience in basic programming, operation and maintenance of CNC equipment, is a must.

• Vision:
  Close;
  Distance;
  Depth
• Clear Speech
• Touching:
  Dexterity;
  Hand;
  Finger
• Ability to Mount and Dismount Forklift/Truck
• Pushing/Pulling/Stoop/Kneel/Crouch or Crawl
• Lifting: 45 Pounds; 5 Times per shift
• Carrying: 25 Pounds; 5 Times per shift
• Driving (local/over the road)
• Bend/Squat/Sit and Stand for a prolonged period of time
• Climbing / Balance

• Works Alone / Works with Others.
• Verbal Contact with Others;
  Face-to-Face Contact.
• Extreme Heat / Extreme Cold.
• Mechanical Equipment.
• Electrical Equipment.
• Pressurized…