Equipment & Tool Engineer 3

Position

Overview

Company is looking for Equipment Engineers to join our Production Engineering organization in Auburn, WA. This Asset Integration/Systems focused position will support exciting new endeavors in the Fabrication Division. A successful candidate in this role will have passion, creativity, and an insatiable desire for process improvement and efficiency. They will also have a strong desire to be on the production floor interacting with operators and troubleshooting with technicians & mechanics to support the production system. In Production Engineering, we need highly responsible professionals committed to upholding the highest standards of safety, quality, and integrity. Primary Responsibilities: • This is an equipment development, implementation, and improvement role. This role involves ensuring the reliability, safety, and integrity of critical production assets. This includes developing and implementing asset reliability systems, conducting equipment health assessments, and ensuring compliance with regulations and standards. The role involves managing asset lifecycle, asset documentation, and preventative maintenance plans. Additionally, the role requires project management, testing, and commissioning of complex automated system projects (new acquisitions and modifications). A success equipment engineer: • Evaluates business unit and project requirements, develops complex equipment concepts and designs solutions for the Production System • Coordinates with suppliers, cross-functional teams, and procurement agents to manage tight schedules and budgets for equipment projects • Generates complex equipment specifications & corresponding verification/validation test protocols for production system assets • Addresses reliability and obsolescence issues by analyzing maintenance & spare parts usage records to optimize performance and reduce costs • Optimizes high precision milling, forming, and other metal processing equipment for safety, ergonomics, quality, flow, reliability, or maintainability • Ensures compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors, and regulatory requirements • Validates contractual performance milestones, maintains configuration control, conducts reviews, prepares plans for productions readiness, preventative maintenance, and spares • Develops and implements basic work-arounds and maintains configuration of hardware, software and documentation.


6+ months - possible extension and possible FTE opportunity.


Requirements

What you'll need

Required Skills: • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science • 3 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience Preferred Skills: • Project management experience supporting complex technical projects, evaluating/selecting equipment solutions, and assessing spare parts inventory in a production environment • Experience working with hardware, software, and documenting configuration management • Experience working to industry standards including compliance with hardware and safety codes • Technical writing experience • Knowledge of various manufacturing techniques • Experience in automation and robotics • Ability to learn in a fast paced environment • Strong communication skills • Motivated self-starter that may be asked to train less experienced engineers • Ability to collaborate with a variety of skill levels and personality types Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 5 or more years' related work experience (e.g. PhD, Master+3 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.


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