Plant Engineer

Schedule:

Monday through Friday, Day Shift The Opportunity

Founded in 1890, The D.S. Brown Company, a Gibraltar Industries Company, is a world-wide leader and supplier of engineered products to the bridge and highway industry. Headquartered in North Baltimore, Ohio, the Company actively sells to bridge and pavement contractors, specialty subcontractors, and construction product distributors. The D.S. Brown Company prides itself on its quality workforce and its reputable products. Check us out at  and become part of our awesome team!

The Plant Engineer is responsible for the building structure/facility, and the design, maintenance, and operation of systems and equipment within the facility, ensuring efficiency, safety, and compliance with company standards. This role supervises the Maintenance department and develops a skilled team focused on reducing downtime, maintaining production equipment, improving productivity, and sustaining safe, compliant operations through preventive maintenance programs and procedures.

The Plant Engineer partners with Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, and Safety to support process improvements, equipment upgrades, ISO 90001 standards, and continuous improvement initiatives across the plant. This is an on-site position located in North Baltimore, OH.

All your life, you've been a thinker – a practical innovator with rolled-up sleeves, a strong sense of purpose and healthy dose of optimist in you. A maker who gets things done. If you dream of using technology to make a difference in the world, we want you with us.

At Gibraltar, we're solving big problems and pushing the boundaries of what's possible, changing lives with smarter products and services in agtech, renewable energy and residential products that will shape a better future for people and the planet. So, we're looking for more than great talent, we're looking for good people with a unique point of view – creators ready to tackle our most important challenges.

If you thrive in a collaborative and inclusive culture, working side by side with talented teammates or hand in hand with customers and communities to solve real-world technology problems, we want to hear from you.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.

Primary Accountabilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Leads the plant’s maintenance team and collaborates closely with Engineering to coordinate and execute tasks on facilities and equipment in a safe and effective manner
• Effectively develops and leverages an outsourcing network and negotiates contracts, as required, to meet organizational needs
• Establishes, leads and maintains preventive maintenance programs inspecting buildings and equipment
• Coordinates and project-manages capital projects, maintenance, updates, and renovations within a specified budget and timeframe efficiently, leveraging cross-functional teams (purchasing, engineering, safety, etc.)
• Partners with cross-functional teams (safety, HR) to identify and provide learning and development programs to ensure compliance with OSHA and safety regulations, proper operations, preventive maintenance, and repair programs and procedures
• Identifies projects that improve productivity, efficiency, process improvement, increased uptime (reduce downtime), while not compromising safety or quality
• Enforces safety practices and other employment policies for employees and outside contractors
• Assists with recruiting, hiring, training staff, evaluates employee performance, and recommends or initiates promotions, transfers, and disciplinary action
• Leverages CMMS (“Maintenance Connection”) to prepare work schedules and assign work to subordinates, manage maintenance inventory and requisition tools, equipment, and supplies
• Works closely with production to ensure clear communication on equipment status and schedule services and/or repairs as needed
• Maintains inventory of spare parts
• Inspects completed work for conformance to blueprints, specifications, and standards
• Directs employees and/or contractors engaged in…