Your Job
As a Maintenance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, availability and performance of production equipment to achieve optimum productivity with minimal downtime. This position will lead efforts in preventive and predictive maintenance, troubleshooting and root cause analysis, working closely with production, engineering and quality teams. Additionally, the Maintenance Engineer will oversee projects related to equipment upgrades, capacity expansion, spare parts management and maintenance process improvements.
Our Team
Molex Malaysia Auto Assembly Department
What You Will Do
- Plan, schedule, and execute preventive (with PM team) and predictive maintenance activities to ensure equipment uptime and performance.
- Lead troubleshooting and repair activities during breakdowns, ensuring quick and effective resolution to minimize downtime.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment reliability, reduce maintenance costs and improve safety.
- Collaborate with production and quality teams to address equipment related issues impacting product quality and output.
- Manage spare parts inventory, ensuring availability of critical components while optimizing stock levels.
- Work with vendors and contractors for equipment servicing, upgrades and installation projects.
- Oversee equipment modifications and upgrades to meet new production requirements or improve efficiency.
- Create and maintain technical documentation such as maintenance procedures, spare parts lists, equipment history records and machine manual.
- Provide technical training and guidance to maintenance technicians on troubleshooting techniques, equipment operation and safety practices.
- Lead and coordinate Maintenance Technician during breakdown and troubleshooting.
- Support the company's initiatives, including IATF 16949, ISO9001, Six Sigma and Kaizen Project.
- Support development, improvement and handover of new machine from Manufacturing Engineering Team.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing or related engineering field.
- Experience in maintenance engineering within a manufacturing environment.
- Proven skills in troubleshooting, repairing and maintaining automated production equipment.
- Ability to read mechanical and electrical drawings and perform technical calculations as needed.
- Proficiency with maintenance related software and tools (e.g., CMMS, CAD, diagnostic equipment)
- Knowledge of equipment reliability principles and maintenance best practices (TPM, RCM)
- Strong time management, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good communication and organizational abilities, with capability to work effectively in cross functional teams.
- Fluent in English language skills
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience with robotics, PLC programming or automation systems.
- Certification in predictive maintenance techniques (vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, etc.).
- Knowledge of lean maintenance practices and continuous improvement methods.
- Experience in automation machine design and equipment modification for improvement.
- Proficiency in CAD software (e.g., AutoCAD, SolidWorks, NX)
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
