Maintenance Engineer, Plant Maintenance

Who We Are

Capitol Aggregates, a division of Zachry, stands on a rich tradition of creativity, stability, innovation, and experience in the construction and building materials industry. Fully understanding that Capitol's employees are the heart of our success, we foster a dynamic work environment by providing development opportunities such as training, education, and career advancement.

We believe people are our greatest asset and offer a variety of training and development opportunities to promote excellence and facilitate career advancement. We take care of our team members as family, within a culture of service where we do the right thing because it is the right thing to do.

Our Core Values guide everything we do:

Every Person Matters | Together We Can Do Great Things | This Is More Than a Job

Position Overview

Responsible for the safety, supervision, administration, and efficiency of the mechanical crew. Assists Plant Maintenance Engineer and Reliability Engineer, as needed.

What You'll Do

• Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, or computer-generated reports.
• Research, design, evaluate, install, operate, or maintain mechanical products, equipment, systems or processes to meet requirements.
• Confer with engineers or other personnel to, resolve system malfunctions, or provide technical information.
• Investigate equipment failures or difficulties to diagnose faulty operation and recommend remedial actions.
• Specify system components to ensure conformance with engineering design, performance specifications, or environmental regulations.
• Recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions.
• Oversee installation, operation, maintenance, or repair to ensure that machines or equipment are installed and functioning according to specifications.
• Conduct research that tests or analyzes the performance of equipment, components, or systems.
• Provide feedback to design engineers on customer problems or needs.
• Review bids with costs estimates for engineering, or construction projects.
• Direct the maintenance, or repair of renewable energy equipment, such as an alternative fuel handling system.
• Write performance requirements for product development or engineering projects.
• Perform personnel functions, such as supervision of maintenance workers, and technicians.
• Assists Plant Maintenance Engineer and Reliability Engineer, as needed.
• Supervise, train, coach and develop the mechanical maintenance crew to achieve departmental goals in a manner that creates employee ownership.
• Function as a leader in performing work safely and promoting safety conscious behavior of plant employees while always ensuring a safe working environment.
• Organize, administrate, and oversee jobs that the mechanical crew is working on.
• Responsible for the efficiency and safe execution of work orders.
• Responsible for continuous improvement of the methodology used for repairs, especially for repetitive jobs.
• Responsible for the evaluation, resolution, or proposal for resolution of problems that affect overall equipment efficiency and implementing long term solutions.
• Implementation and enforcement of consistent use of mechanic best practices and precision maintenance tools.
• Efficiently use resources assigned for the job (personnel, equipment, materials, time) to deliver the expected and committed results in a timely manner.
• Ensure that workers observe safe work practices and perform work assignments within MSHA and Company established safety guidelines.
• Coach mechanical crew to ensure they follow the best practices and use precision maintenance tools when required. Supervisor and Maintenance Engineers are expected to visit with workers in the field several times per day to be on the top of any issues that may arise during the execution of jobs and to provide insights.
• Follow and enforce Company policies and procedures of all assigned personnel.
• Complete reports, forms and other paperwork associated with activities, including but not limited to safety forms, environmental forms, schedules, etc.
• Administrate work order logs and keep them organized on proper drives. Properly close work orders in TMT (timely and with explanation of work performed, materials used, etc.) to ensure accurate records and equipment history.
• Coordinate maintenance work with other departments to enhance overall equipment efficiency and maximize production.
• Prioritize execution of workload. Visit the job site prior to scheduling to ensure all contingencies were considered before sending crew to execute the job.
• Responsible for daily updates to the weekly schedule with hours used for each job, including unplanned jobs, etc.
• Coordinate with Planner and Reliability Engineer to ensure the right priorities are set and the right jobs are planned and scheduled. Coordinate with stockroom/procurement to ensure the right parts are supplied.
• Assist in the preparation of the annual budget and provide recommendation for capital expenditures.
• Ensure employees observe safe work practices and perform work assignments within MSHA and Capitol established safety guidelines.
• Investigate and define modifications on equipment that need to be implemented to enhance equipment reliability.
• Read and use equipment documentation (manuals, drawings, and other technical information) to understand failure modes of equipment.
• Assigns and specifies scheduled and unscheduled jobs to contractors.
• Perform other supervisory duties as assigned.

NOTE: This list presents only the principal duties of the position and is not intended to be comprehensive. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned as dictated by business needs and conditions. As an essential function of the job, good attendance is required.

What You'll Bring

Educational Requirements and Experience

• BA/BS degree in mechanical engineering, or Mechantronics Engineering.
• 5 years of industrial control experience in a cement plant or similar heavy industrial facility.
• Demonstrated understanding of the equipment for the cement industry.

Required Skills

• A high degree of safety awareness.
• Strong decision-making skills demonstrated through the rapid implementation of best practices, evaluation of results and execution of the corrective actions in cases where the results were not the expected.
• Strong knowledge about equipment of a cement plant (components, their function ability, failure modes). Knowledge of hydraulic systems.
• Trustworthy and unbiased when providing information.
• Organization and planning.
• Flexibility to adapt to rapid changing plant situations.
• Strong and effective communications skills with ability to communicate technical information to non-technical team members. Must possess ability to communicate and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors and co-workers.
• Perseverant and respectful in all interactions and supports points of view with technical sound reasons.
• Trouble shooting skills by applying common sense and technical knowledge.
• Self-starter.
• Ability to exercise common sense in the operation and safety of all equipment, machinery, and vehicles; to work under pressure to solve problems, meet deadlines in performing work in a timely fashion.
• Proficient in using Windows and Microsoft Office

Notice to Staffing Agencies

Capitol Aggregates Inc. (Capitol) will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Capitol, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Capitol mailing address or email address, directly to Capitol employees, or to Capitol's resume database will be considered Capitol property. Capitol will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Capitol will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. Agencies must obtain advance written approval from Capitol's recruiting function to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid, fully executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. Capitol will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such an agreement in place. Agency agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by Capitol's Human Resources Representative or their designee. No other Capitol employee is authorized to bind Capitol to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by an Agency.

Company: Zachry

Position: Maintenance Engineer, Plant Maintenance

Req #: 11016199

Date Posted: May 15, 2026

Location: 11551 Nacogdoches Rd, San Antonio,
US,
TX,
78216

Job Category: Engineering/Maintenance