- Leverage your engineering expertise in a dynamic and impactful role
- Collaborate with a skilled team to drive innovation and efficiency
- Enjoy competitive compensation and benefits with a global industry leader
Methanex is the world's largest supplier of methanol to major international markets in North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America. With the care of the environment as the root of their business, Methanex is a Responsible Care® company committed to the safe, ethical and environmentally sound management of the chemicals it makes and uses. Responsible Care® is an ethic established by the Chemical Industry Association of Canada (CIAC). The Responsible Care® ethic is an integral part of Methanex’s global commitment to ensuring the well-being of all stakeholders, wherever Methanex does business.
Methanex is currently seeking a Maintenance Engineer – Mechanical to join the team in Medicine Hat, AB, on a full-time basis.
The Maintenance Engineer – Mechanical is responsible for validating and developing mechanical designs through the Management of Change (MOC) process under Maintenance Engineering. This includes providing technical guidance and implementing design modifications to support plant reliability.
The role supports monitoring of the plant reliability framework, which includes identifying reliability risks that could impact the plant or business operations, and delivering reliability strategies, analysis and solutions to measure and improve plant performance.
More specifically, your responsibilities will include:
- Provide mechanical and piping designs for low-risk plant modifications and upgrades
- Review and verify the design integrity of low-risk mechanical equipment
- Support materials selection to minimize costs and maximize facility reliability and maintainability
- Provide technical support to Maintenance and Operations for emergency changes and equipment issues
- Respond to management requests related to mechanical engineering matters
- Apply appropriate codes, standards, calculations, finite element analysis (FEA), and specifications
- Analyze asset and plant performance to identify high maintenance costs and reliability risks, confirm management strategies, and ensure predictive methods are in place to detect and isolate problems
- Utilize the Management of Change (MOC) procedure to develop and execute engineering solutions to equipment failures and other issues impacting plant reliability
- Conduct reliability analysis using data analysis tools (e.g., statistical modelling, reliability modelling, fault tree analysis, Weibull analysis) and root cause analysis
- Provide input into risk assessments for equipment and system performance
- Develop, maintain, and improve systems to measure and monitor the reliability of plants, equipment, components, and processes
- Measure and report overall equipment effectiveness and other key parameters affecting reliability, operating condition, and asset costs
- Apply value analysis to repair/replace, redesign, or manufacture/purchase decisions using reliability tools
- Collaborate with Technical and Project teams to ensure new or modified equipment meets reliability and maintainability requirements throughout its lifecycle
- Work with Maintenance and Technical teams to develop and execute the annual department plan, ensuring alignment with the Medicine Hat business plan and Corporate Strategy
- Lead or contribute to global and local projects
To qualify, you will need an undergraduate degree with a major in an engineering discipline, with registration as a Professional Engineer with APEGA, and 8+ years of related industrial experience, with at least 2 years in a reliability-related role.
Additionally, the following skills and background will be highly valued:
- Experience with incident investigation (e.g. Tap Root)
- Experience with reliability analysis/modelling
- 6+ years’ experience in mechanical engineering
- Familiarity with industry codes and regulations, as well as mechanical engineering practices
- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office programs
As our ideal candidate, you will have excellent communication skills and a customer-focused mentality, ensuring successful interaction with internal and external stakeholders while also gaining their trust and respect. Your collaborative nature and your prioritization, organization, interpersonal, and detail-oriented skills will guarantee your success in this role, as you effectively navigate changing priorities and an evolving work environment.
Above all, you must be a positive, strong team player who is results-oriented, with superior problem-solving, critical thinking, and troubleshooting skills, while also demonstrating an ongoing commitment to professional development.
Building on our core values of integrity, trust, respect, and professionalism, our corporate culture encourages communication and teamwork and rewards employees for creativity and innovation.
We are also very active in supporting educational and training/development initiatives. We sponsor scholarships and co-op programs at local colleges and universities as well as hands-on training programs at our manufacturing facilities.
In exchange for your hard work and dedication, you can expect an industry-competitive salary, along with benefits.
Join this thriving and team-focused market leader today and expand your experience with a new challenge - Apply Now!
To apply, please complete the online application form. Once you have answered the questions, please click NEXT and you will be instructed to attach your resume on the following page. Please submit your resume and cover letter as a single document.
Expressions of interest must be submitted by 4 p.m. on July 6, 2025.
