Equipment & Tool Engineer

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