Equipment & Tool Engineer

Job Title: Equipment & Tool Engineer 3

Duration: 6 Months

Location: Auburn, WA 98001

Worksite: Onsite | 1st Shift | 6:30 AM - 3:00 PM

Job Description

Client Commercial Airplanes (BCA) 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 and 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.

• This is an equipment development, implementation, and improvement role focused on ensuring the reliability, safety, and integrity of critical production assets.
• Develop and implement asset reliability systems.
• Conduct equipment health assessments.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and standards.
• Manage asset lifecycle, asset documentation, and preventative maintenance plans.
• Manage testing and commissioning of complex automated system projects, including new acquisitions and equipment modifications.
• Evaluate business unit and project requirements, develop complex equipment concepts, and design solutions for the production system.
• Coordinate with suppliers, cross-functional teams, and procurement agents to manage equipment project schedules and budgets.
• Generate complex equipment specifications and corresponding verification/validation test protocols for production system assets.
• Address reliability and obsolescence issues by analyzing maintenance and spare parts usage records to optimize performance and reduce costs.
• Optimize high-precision milling, forming, and other metal processing equipment for safety, ergonomics, quality, production flow, reliability, and maintainability.
• Ensure compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors, and regulatory requirements.
• Validate contractual performance milestones, maintain configuration control, conduct reviews, and prepare plans for production readiness, preventative maintenance, and spare parts.
• Develop and implement workarounds while maintaining hardware, software, and documentation configuration.

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Engineering Technology), Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Data Science, or Computer Science.
• 3 or more years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Project management experience supporting complex technical projects, evaluating and selecting equipment solutions, and assessing spare parts inventory in a production environment.
• Experience working with hardware, software, and configuration management documentation.
• Experience working with 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 with the ability to train less experienced engineers.
• Ability to collaborate with individuals across 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's degree).
• Typically 5 or more years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g., PhD, Master's degree + 3 years of related work experience).
• In the USA,
  ABET accreditation is preferred
  , although not required, accreditation standard.