Chief Engineer

Job Description

HALIFAX LINEN SERVICE

Chief Engineer

Roanoke Rapids, NC | Technical Leadership • Reliability • People Development

Halifax Linen Service is seeking a Chief Engineer to own the reliability, technical capability, and life cycle performance of our equipment, facilities, utilities, and technical infrastructure. This is not simply a senior maintenance technician position. We are seeking a hands-on technical leader who can build a disciplined maintenance organization, develop people, improve reliability, strengthen maintenance systems, exercise sound engineering judgment, and protect Halifax’s capital investment.

What You Will Own

• Equipment reliability and structured diagnosis of significant and recurring failures.
• Leadership, accountability, and technical development of the maintenance team.
• Discipline and effectiveness of Halifax’s maintenance management system (HAM), including work orders, asset history, PM/PdM, backlog, labor, parts usage, and failure documentation.
• Preventive and predictive maintenance strategy that measurably reduces failures and unplanned downtime.
• Maintenance, reliability, engineering, utilities, facilities technical systems, and technical infrastructure.
• Repair-versus-replace analysis, equipment lifecycle decisions, capital recommendations, installations, and commissioning.
• Technical vendor relationships, engineering resources, critical-spare strategy, and partnership with the Parts Coordinator on purchasing and inventory execution.
• Safe maintenance practices and technical compliance, including electrical safety, Lockout/Tagout, machine guarding, hot work, boilers/pressure vessels, and related inspections.

• Cross-functional partnership with Operations and Production while maintaining clear engineering and reliability ownership.

   

What We Are Looking For

• 5-7 years of industrial mechanical/electrical maintenance, engineering, or closely related experience.
• Progressive maintenance leadership responsibility, including direct leadership and development of technical employees.
• Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting capability with exposure to PLCs, VFDs, HMIs, sensors, I/O, motor controls, and industrial controls.
• Experience with CMMS/work-order systems and disciplined preventive/predictive maintenance programs.
• Demonstrated use of structured troubleshooting and root-cause failure analysis.
• Experience with major equipment installations, commissioning, vendors, contractors, or capital projects.
• Ability to make difficult technical and business decisions under pressure and communicate clearly with production, maintenance, vendors, and senior leadership.

• Curiosity, learning agility, and the ability to become deeply knowledgeable about unfamiliar equipment and systems.

   

Preferred Experience

Experience in a manufacturing or industrial production environment is strongly valued. Commercial laundry, textile, uniform, apparel, or linen experience is valuable but not required. Experience with boilers/steam, industrial utilities, material handling, highly automated production equipment, and multi-site facilities is a plus.

Leadership Structure

The Chief Engineer reports to the Vice President of Operations. The Chief Engineer owns maintenance, reliability, engineering, utilities, and technical infrastructure and works as a peer functional leader with the Plant Manager, who owns production execution and custodial/housekeeping operations.

Company Description

About Halifax Linen Service

Since 1946, Halifax Linen Service has provided uniform and linen programs and services across the Southeast. Our operations combine advanced laundry systems, high-tech production equipment, RFID solutions, hygienic processing, and technology-driven textile services.

Benefits

• 401(K)
• Dental Insurance
• Major Medical
• Paid time Off (PTO)
• Vision Insurance
• Short Term Disability