Staff Equipment Engineer at Divergent · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

As Staff Equipment Engineer, you will be a recognized technical authority on production L-PBF equipment. You will lead multiple projects at once, define the technical approach for them, and work across Equipment Engineering, Service, Operations, Quality, and Development Engineering. You will mentor engineers on the team and help set the standards by which the team works. The Equipment Engineering team focuses on the three areas below, and you will help lead 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 taking the lead on novel issues that existing procedures do not cover.
Support preventative maintenance improvements based on observed equipment performance, and define how performance data should drive PM content and intervals.
Mentor engineers, 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.
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.
Develop trend and reliability data across the fleet, and use it to decide what the team should work on first.
Initiate and complete RCCAs end to end: identify the issue, set short-term containment, and drive long-term corrective action. Lead the most complex or cross-functional investigations and coach others through theirs.
Engage with Development Engineering: provide regular input on machine reliability and recommend targeted fixes with input from Operations and Service. Prioritized requests to the Development organization are an output of the team, not of one person, and you will help the team build and defend that priority list.

Qualification

Experience with technical leadershipExperience in aerospaceKnowledge of AS9100Experience with controls systems

Required

Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
8+ years of engineering experience in manufacturing, equipment, or reliability engineering, or in advanced production environments, including 3+ years in metal additive manufacturing (e.g., Laser Powder Bed Fusion or similar).
Experience with technical leadership, specifically with mentoring other engineers or technicians.
Experience owning the sustaining performance of production equipment and leading it through launch or ramp.
Deep troubleshooting skill across mechanical, electrical, and controls systems, including problems that cross those boundaries.
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 lead 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.

Preferred

Experience with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) or other metal additive manufacturing technologies.
Experience in aerospace, automotive, semiconductor, or other high-volume precision manufacturing environments.
Knowledge of AS9100, AMS, PPAP, APQP, or equivalent quality systems.
Exposure to equipment reliability engineering, OEE improvement, or preventative maintenance programs.
Experience working with machine sensor data or manufacturing analytics.
Experience with controls systems, PLCs, industrial automation, or machine integration.
Experience supporting capital equipment installation or commissioning.

Staff Equipment Engineer

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Divergent

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