Senior Facilities HVAC Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Facilities HVAC Engineer

Location: Tempe and Peoria, Arizona

Help design and launch the critical HVAC infrastructure for a major new advanced-manufacturing facility. This position offers the opportunity to guide complex systems from design and construction through commissioning, start-up, and full-scale factory operations.

What You’ll Do

• Support the design, installation, commissioning, and operation of cleanroom, exhaust, abatement, and office HVAC systems.

• Collaborate with design consultants, contractors, vendors, operations teams, and maintenance personnel.

• Review engineering drawings, specifications, equipment submittals, tool-exhaust designs, and construction progress.

• Support equipment preparation, operational testing, system turnover, and technical handover documentation.

• Troubleshoot construction and start-up issues and resolve system abnormalities.

• Provide engineering support for recirculation units, make-up air systems, exhaust systems, acid scrubbers, RCTO solvent-abatement systems, AHUs, and VAV systems.

• Respond to cleanroom HVAC OCAP conditions involving temperature, humidity, particle levels, and exhaust pressure.

• Monitor performance through inspections, trend analysis, capacity planning, and technical reporting.

• Apply FMEA, root-cause analysis, and reliability-engineering principles to improve system performance.

• Identify and implement upgrades that improve reliability, energy efficiency, safety, and production capacity.

• Support capital projects, expense projects, system modifications, and equipment hook-ups.

• Maintain accurate operating, maintenance, and commissioning procedures.

What You’ll Bring

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

• Five or more years of HVAC engineering experience covering design and operations.

• Strong knowledge of HVAC systems, exhaust systems, controls, chilled-water systems, cooling towers, and cleanroom standards.

• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and construction documents.

• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office.

• Semiconductor, high-tech manufacturing, pharmaceutical, data-center, or industrial-facility experience preferred.

• Design, construction, commissioning, and start-up experience strongly preferred.

• Professional Engineer license is a plus.

The role will initially support Tempe and Peoria construction activities before transitioning to Peoria for factory operations.