Responsibilities

As Senior Equipment Engineer-Electrical, you will be a subject matter expert on the electrical systems of production L-PBF equipment, including power distribution, control circuits, sensors and instrumentation, wiring, drives, and safety interlocks. You will own technical issues and projects on your assigned equipment, set the approach and standards for recurring technical challenges, and work across Equipment Engineering, Service, Operations, Quality, and Development Engineering. You will mentor technicians and peers. The Equipment Engineering team focuses on the three areas below, and you will contribute to all of them.
Support Service and Operations
Improve existing work instructions and write new ones where gaps exist, with the goal of Service team autonomy for most day-to-day issues.
Act as a technical resource for operators and Service, including formally as part of the Service Level Agreement (SLA). This includes support for novel issues that existing procedures do not cover.
Support preventative maintenance improvements based on observed equipment performance.
Mentor technicians and operators so that knowledge from difficult investigations moves out of individuals and into the system.
Own Equipment Reliability and Resolve Fleet Problems
Take technical ownership of assigned equipment after qualification, and track performance against safety, quality, delivery, and cost baselines.
Troubleshoot electrical issues on L-PBF equipment, such as power distribution and high-power subsystems, control circuits, sensors and instrumentation, wiring and harnesses, drives and motors, and safety interlocks, and work with mechanical and controls engineers when a failure crosses those boundaries.
Mine existing datasets to discover issues, in particular machine process data and downstream printed part data (non-conformances, witness coupons), and connect the two to find causes that neither dataset shows alone.
Contribute to trend and reliability data across the fleet, and use it to prioritize your work.
Initiate and complete RCCAs end to end: identify the issue, set short-term containment, and drive long-term corrective action. Own investigations on your equipment and in your domain, and support cross-functional investigations led by others.

Qualification

Experience with controls systems

Required

Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related discipline.
6+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, reliability engineering, or advanced production environments.
Experience owning the sustaining performance of production equipment and supporting it through launch or ramp.
Strong electrical troubleshooting skill on production equipment (for example power, control circuits, sensors, and instrumentation), including reading schematics and one-line diagrams, with working knowledge of mechanical systems sufficient to troubleshoot alongside mechanical engineers.
Demonstrated ability to lead root cause investigations using structured methodologies (e.g., RCCA, 5 Whys, Fishbone, Fault Tree) on recurring or ambiguous problems, and to verify that corrective actions held.
Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, including finding problems in large datasets and not only responding to reported failures.
Ability to work and influence across engineering, operations, quality, maintenance, and service teams without direct authority, and to communicate clearly with people at very different levels of technical depth.
Experience mentoring or training other engineers or technicians.

Preferred

Experience with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) or other metal additive manufacturing technologies.
Experience with electrical subsystems common to L-PBF and similar equipment, such as laser and high-power systems, heaters, motion drives, sensors and data acquisition (DAQ), or safety interlocks.
Experience with electrical safety practices (for example NFPA 70E and LOTO).
Experience contributing to a fleet-level reliability, trending, or performance program (for example OEE, MTBF/MTTR, or failure-mode tracking) across multiple machines or sites.
Experience writing or standardizing work instructions that enabled a Service or Operations team to work more independently.
Experience with a configuration management or engineering change process.
Experience working with machine sensor data or manufacturing analytics (for example SQL, Python, or similar tools).
Experience with controls systems, PLCs, industrial automation, or machine integration.

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