Equipment & Tool Engineer 3
Job Location: Auburn, WA 98001
Duration: 06 Months Shift: 1st shift 6:30 am – 3:00 pm
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
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