Predictive Maintenance Engineer

TalentXM builds benches of reliability and data people for manufacturers trying to stop unplanned downtime. You'd be placed into client engagements covering rotating equipment — motors, pumps, compressors, gearboxes, fans — plus process assets where the client has the sensor history to support it.Expect to work from plant historians (PI, Ignition, Wonderware), CMMS work-order history (Maximo, SAP PM), and vibration route data. Expect the data to be imperfect: inconsistent asset hierarchies, free-text work orders, sensors recalibrated without anyone logging it. Expect very few labelled failures, because well-maintained plants don't produce many. Working around that is the job.What you'll ownCondition monitoring and anomaly detection on client assets, from historian and CMMS extract through to an alert someone acts onThe honest call on whether remaining-useful-life modelling is possible with the failure data that exists, and what to build instead when it isn'tAlert thresholds negotiated with the client's reliability team, with false-positive tolerance agreed before go-liveFailure-mode validation: which modes matter on the asset, and what the data shows when one is developingDeployment and monitoring, with drift detection and a retraining trigger that isn't a person noticingWhat we need to seeA predictive maintenance system that ran in production and changed a maintenance decision. We'll ask how many labelled failures you had and what you did about itFailure-mode fluency — vibration signatures, bearing and gearbox degradation. ISO 18436 Category II or demonstrable equivalentPython and time-series modelling: anomaly detection, feature engineering on sensor data, evaluation under extreme class imbalanceHistorian and CMMS work, including the messy partsCredibility with a maintenance planner. That's a screening criterion, not a soft skillNice to haveOPC-UA, MQTT/Sparkplug B · edge deployment · MLflow or equivalent · CMRP or CRE · oil and gas, power, wind or rail reliability background · thermography or oil analysis alongside vibration