Equipment Engineer II

Job Duties

• Develop a complete understanding of equipment and support systems in assigned areas.
• Act as a trainer and certifier for maintenance technicians.
• Provide daily support to operations.
• Be aware of equipment status and priority.
• Monitor the direction and effectiveness of repairs and provide support as necessary to maintenance.
• Have a thorough knowledge of hazards and safety concerns for assigned areas.
• Identify and resolve equipment code, health and safety issues.
• Develop and review energy control procedures.
• Identify and implement improvements to equipment, maintenance programs and procedures.
• Maintain a Pareto of failure causes by frequency, cost, and downtime.
• Monitor trends in technical availability, TTRmax, MTTR and MTBF.
• Perform failure analysis of equipment and components.
• Develop and implement predictive maintenance methods.
• Make improvements to reduce unscheduled downtime and increase reliability of equipment.
• Develop and review preventative and planned maintenance requirements.
• Establish initial preventative maintenance tasks and schedules.
• Review PM’s regularly for effectiveness.
• Schedule planned maintenance activities.
• Develop procedures where necessary.
• Review and optimize spare parts requirements.
• Identify and implement cost reductions.
• Track and trend the technical spending for assigned equipment.
• Identify and implement ways to reduce repair costs, qualify alternative spare parts and to reduce consumption of utilities and consumables.
• Work with process technology to identify and resolve equipment related yield issues.
• Develop methods to assign causes to yield excursions.
• Identify key equipment parameters which cause variation and establish SPC for these.
• Analyze engineering problems in detail and provide complete design solutions.
• Prepare project proposals and request for funding.
• Organize, direct and control the efforts of an engineering project team.
• Prepare project specifications and scope of work by vendors, consultants, and contractors.
• Select vendors, consultants, and contractors.
• Monitor and control the execution of projects for cost schedule and performance.
• Provide regular project reports and forecasts.
• Provide complete documentation, P.M. schedules and spare parts lists in connection with each project.
• Participate in special projects, cooperate with other team members and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Requires a B.S. in Engineering or equivalent experience, along with a minimum of two years of related industry experience and strong hands-on expertise in the candidate’s engineering discipline.
• PLC experience is required, including the ability to monitor and interpret ladder logic code, along with experience in 2D and 3D modeling (AutoCAD/Autodesk Inventor preferred).
• Experience with chemical supply and wet cleaning systems is preferred.