Senior Equipment Engineer

Equipment Engineer (Direct Placement for Client) Sigma Design has collaborated with a global company seeking an experienced Senior Equipment Engineer to join their facility in Gresham, OR.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Equipment Engineer owns the reliability, availability, and performance of site equipment.
• This person takes complex equipment problems from first investigation through to implementation and a verified fix, with minimal direction, and stays accountable for the outcome.
• The role also shapes the site’s reliability and maintenance approach, including predictive and condition-based maintenance, and mentors the wider engineering team.
• You’ll work closely with Maintenance, Operations, and external partners, and contribute to capital projects and continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of complex equipment problems from initial investigation through to implementation and verified resolution.
• Define the problem, build a plan, assess risks, and drive actions to completion.
• Coordinate internal specialists and external suppliers (maintenance, design, OEMs).
• You don’t need every technical answer yourself, but you do need to find and engage the right expertise and own the result.
• Develop and maintain the site’s reliability and maintenance approach, including predictive and condition-based maintenance.
• Champion the CMMS and lead FMEAs, MTAs or RCM as part of the reliability program.
• Develop and maintain a 12-week maintenance plan that lines up with equipment availability.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for process run failures.
• Host regular risk and mitigation reviews so lessons learned reach all stakeholders and actions are closed out on time.
• Review equipment breakdown escalations from Maintenance in a timely way, and work with production technicians, maintenance technicians and engineering to improve maintenance strategies.
• Develop an in-depth technical understanding of CVD diamond-synthesis reactors, the process levers that affect yield quality, and the equipment before and after synthesis.
• Use data analysis tools to evaluate and improve equipment efficiency.
• Host regular metric reviews to spot problem areas and performance trends.
• Draft and lead hazard and risk assessments for your assigned equipment, and contribute to a Zero Harm safety culture.
• Manage equipment projects, including commissioning of new equipment: document control, weekly meetings, quality control, budget analysis and risk management.
• Prepare detailed start-up plans that bring all disciplines together.
• Help develop and implement factory and site acceptance procedures.
• Develop new and standardize existing engineering and maintenance procedures, document best practices, and keep SOPs reviewed and up to date.
• Outline and specify critical spare parts and calibration equipment for commissioning and ongoing maintenance.
• Support the Design Requirements Process as a subject matter expert.
• Mentor and guide the wider Equipment Engineering team, and develop training programs for onboarding new staff.
• Become the in-house expert on the production equipment and support Maintenance Technicians.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline

• Demonstrated examples of owning complex technical problems and delivering them through to verified resolution
• Experience in a similar engineering role (preferred), ideally on CVD or similar equipment
• Experience managing both internal and external resources, such as maintenance, design and OEMs Experience with new projects, start-ups, or process transfer is a plus
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment.
• Comfortable leading change.
• Ability to typically spend 5 days per week on site.
• Ability to travel internationally and work across time zones.
• Makes clear, timely decisions and gives explicit guidance.
• Decisions are focused on increasing or improving the company’s options and are owned.
• Comfortable working to develop the behavior and performance of the team.
• Avoids complexity.
• Does not over-engineer solutions and stays focused on the problem being solved.
• Considers the implications of local decisions across the whole organization.
• Looks beyond what is good for the business.
• Holds self and others to account.
• Understands that no one sees the complete picture and values perspectives from across the business.
• Self-motivated and comfortable taking on responsibility.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring and coaching.
• Communicates clearly and effectively, in writing and in person. ​ Work Environment Standard office environment with normal amounts of office related conditions.
• Occasionally may be required to work in environmental conditions that emulate typical user environments in order to facilitate design testing and validation.
• Occasionally may be required to travel as required to other facilities, clients, or suppliers.
• Sigma Design is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Benefits

• This company is a leader in the design, development and production of synthetic diamond and tungsten carbide super materials.
• Choice of excellent health plans
• Dental and vision plans 401k plan and safe harbor with company match up to 6% Generous vacation (4 weeks of PTO + 1 week of Sick Time) Salary:$100-$110k This position is full time in office