Maintenance Engineer

Main Purpose

The Maintenance Engineer has oversight for all maintenance activities supporting the site facility, Seed Washing & Processing at Khon Kaen site. The role is responsible for the safe and reliable execution of maintenance activities in collaboration with site leadership, including preventive maintenance, day-to-day operational maintenance, project management, engineering, and other maintenance support as required.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Develop preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance plans based on asset criticality, operating needs, equipment condition, failure history, and risk.

• Plan daily work, shutdowns, and backlog; coordinate resources with Operations and relevant functions to meet safety, quality, reliability, and production requirements.

• Use SAP PM as the system of record for notifications, work orders, planning, confirmations, technical closure, equipment history, downtime, failure data, and cost.

• Maintain accurate SAP master data for functional locations, equipment, BOMs, task lists, measuring points, and maintenance plans.

• Use SAP PM within delegated authority to check stock, reserve materials, initiate purchase requisitions, and follow up material and service transactions.

• Analyze SAP PM/MM and operational data to improve PM compliance, backlog, reliability trends, spare-parts availability, and maintenance cost.

• Independently investigate equipment and process issues through structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis; implement actions to eliminate recurring failures.

• Partner with Operations, Seed Processing, and Manufacturing Excellence to identify and implement equipment, process, capacity, safety, and efficiency improvements.

• Identify improvement opportunities using equipment performance, SAP data, operator feedback, and relevant external technology developments.

• Evaluate condition monitoring, mobile maintenance, predictive analytics, workflow automation, and energy-efficiency solutions, and coordinate approved site-level pilots.

• Prepare technical and financial business cases, verify operational and financial benefits, document lessons learned, and recommend standardization of successful solutions.

• Maintain procedures, technical standards, and work instructions; ensure compliance with HSE, ISO, OH&S, audit, and applicable site requirements.

• Define critical spare-parts requirements and recommend inventory, obsolescence, and asset-lifecycle strategies based on operational risk and lifecycle cost.

• Coordinate vendors and contractors; monitor expenditure against approved budgets and ensure safe execution, service quality, schedule, and cost performance.

• Lead assigned engineering projects from scope and design through installation, commissioning, handover, technical documentation, and SAP data readiness.

• Maintain KPI dashboards and reports, provide technical guidance and training, and complete assigned audit, compliance, and risk actions on time.

Qualifications & Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant maintenance, engineering or manufacturing experience.

• Demonstrated experience delivering maintenance, facility or engineering projects.

• Working proficiency in SAP PM and practical knowledge of SAP MM maintenance transactions.

• Strong knowledge of maintenance planning, reliability, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

• Technical experience in equipment installation, commissioning and start-up.

• Knowledge of HSE, ISO and Management of Change requirements.

• Ability to prepare business cases and quantify safety, reliability, productivity and cost benefits.

• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and data analysis; Power BI is an advantage.

• Effective English communication and ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Local regulations and legal requirements vary per country of hire and will be discussed with considered candidates individually based on their potential of hire.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Science for a better life, we encourage you to apply now. Job postings will remain open for a minimum of ten business days and are subject to immediate closure thereafter without additional notice.

IMPORTANT NOTE for POTENTIAL CANADIAN CANDIDATES: This position requires full vaccination against COVID-19.

IMPORTANT NOTE for POTENTIAL GERMAN CANDIDATES: Applications from employees in Germany who may be affected by personnel reduction will treated favorably from other candidates in Germany.

IMPORTANT NOTE for POTENTIAL US CANDIDATES: Bayer expects its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Bayer active employees are also expected to disclose their vaccination status and if fully vaccinated, provide proof of vaccination status to Occupational Medicine. Bayer defines fully vaccinated in alignment with CDC which is two weeks after completing the two-dose vaccine regimen or two weeks after completing the one-dose regimen. Additionally, Bayer employees are also required to comply with state, local and customer requirements.

Division: Crop Science Reference Code 885708 Functional Area: Engineering & Technology Location: Thailand : Khon Kaen : Muang Employment Type: Regular Position Grade: E11