Senior Equipment Engineer

The actual location of this job is in Bend, Oregon (USA). Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates and their families, if needed.

• An agile career and dynamic working culture.
• An inclusive and ethical workplace.
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
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• Responsible for technical ownership, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of pharmaceutical process equipment, with a primary focus on spray dryers and solid oral dosage (tablet) manufacturing equipment.
• Provide hands‑on engineering support to manufacturing operations, reliability, and quality teams, ensuring equipment performance, compliance, and product quality.
• Provides equipment downtime response, analysis and troubleshooting for critical cGMP manufacturing equipment and systems, including mechanical, process, automation, and electrical issues.
• Assist with required project activities including attending regular internal/external personnel meetings, reviewing meeting minutes, action item log, owner/architect/contractor (OAC) meeting, design reviews, schedule and cost reviews, change orders, construction progress walks, safety toolbox talks, and construction permits.
• Practices safety awareness at all times and considers impact of actions prior to executing activities.

• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for process equipment, including spray dryers, granulation, blending, compression, and ancillary tablet manufacturing systems.
• Troubleshoot complex equipment and process issues using structured problem‑solving and root cause analysis techniques.
• Diagnose mechanical, process, and control‑related failures in a safe manner and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
• Support equipment lifecycle management, including upgrades, obsolescence planning, and performance optimization.
• Partner with the Reliability team to improve equipment uptime, reliability, and maintainability.
• Assists with ensuring state‑of‑the‑art technologies, industry and safety standards are evaluated and utilized to incorporate innovations into process, equipment, automation, and OT designs.
• Assists with ensuring process and automation engineering solutions maximize and optimize process efficiency, and improve quality of performance for manufacturing processes.

• Provide on‑floor engineering support during manufacturing operations, startups, shutdowns, and process changes. Assists maintenance with manufacturing equipment and systems downtime response, analysis and troubleshooting, including coordination with vendors and contractors.
• Support deviation investigations by identifying root causes, defining corrective actions, and authoring technical sections of deviation reports.
  
  Support change management activities, including impact assessments and implementation of process or equipment changes.
• Train manufacturing operator and equipment specialists on equipment operations, process changes, and troubleshooting best practices.

• Author and review User Requirement Specifications (URS) for new or modified process equipment. Interacts with internal customers to ensure scopes and URSs are evaluated and prepared with site process, equipment, automation, and OT capabilities to support the user requirements for requested projects.
• Interact with internal and external engineering design teams and vendors to prepare functional requirement specifications (FRSs), functional design specifications (FDSs), and detailed design specifications (DDSs) to ensure the facility, process and equipment capabilities can support the URSs.
• Review and approve equipment specifications, drawings, FAT/SAT documentation, and vendor technical packages.
• Support capital projects from concept through commissioning and qualification (as applicable).
• Ensure documentation is accurate, complete, and aligned with GMP and data integrity requirements.

• Ensure equipment design and operation meet regulatory, safety, and quality standards.
• Support audits and inspections by…