Sustaining Equipment Engineer

As a Sustaining Equipment Engineer, you will be responsible for making continuous improvements to our automated production equipment for the manufacturing of electrical systems for electric vehicles. This will involve rapid, efficient responses to real-time issues, driving permanent resolutions and improvements in collaboration with our maintenance and operations staff, as well as driving continuous improvement of our preventative maintenance programs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Be the initial point of contact for equipment escalations
• Support the creation of PM procedures and documentation
• Support the launch and maintenance of the PM software
• Implementation and upkeep of the company-wide spare parts system
• Creation of equipment-specific critical spare parts lists
• Analyze equipment performance and identify opportunities for increased productivity
• Lead RCA activities and implement equipment-related corrective actions
• Audit and improve Maintenance Technician recovery procedures
• Design-to-implementation of equipment improvements that increase throughput or yield
• Along with supervisors, you will assist with training on how to safely operate equipment
• Comply with safety regulations and keep work areas clean and orderly
• Must be able to build a relationship with all team members
• Perform other tasks as assigned

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)

Experience/Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, or Manufacturing is preferred.
• Strength in SolidWorks is a must.
• Extensive experience working with hand tools and manual machinery
• Expert user in the Microsoft Suite
• Project management and/or strong organizational skills
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently or in a group setting

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Working Conditions/Hours

Salaried Exempt

Physical Demands – Office and Manufacturing Environment

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms and pull/push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment –

Includes both a typical office environment, with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues, and a shop environment, with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to chemicals used to run/maintain machines

PPE-

May be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to safety glasses, safety shoes, bump-caps, gloves, hair nets, masks, & clean-room frocks while adhering to the prescribed safety procedures