Job Description:

Equipment & Tool Engineer 4

Seeking a Production Asset Engineer to support the Electrical Systems Responsibility Center (ESRC) in Everett Washington. A successful candidate in this role will have passion, creativity, and an insatiable desire for process improvement and efficiency. They will also have a strong desire to be out in the factory, interacting with mechanics, safety, equipment services, and directly supporting the production system. In Production Engineering, we need highly responsible professionals committed to upholding the highest standards of safety, quality, and integrity.

The Equipment & Tool Engineer develops program and project requirements, develops highly complex equipment and tooling concepts and designs solutions, including alternatives for the Production System. Validates analysis of technical data, influences product engineering design and makes robotics, automation or technical recommendations to support production system integration for a aerospace products. Leads the creation and modification of equipment and tooling definition at the program level. Executes project plans, provides input to Make/Buy decisions and partners with Procurement to meet program schedule, cost and quality targets. Ensures compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors and regulatory requirements. Leads gated reviews and develops plans for production readiness, preventative maintenance and spares. Validates contractual performance milestones. Develops and implements workarounds and maintains configuration of hardware, software and documentation. Conducts studies and make recommendation for disposition of assets. A successful candidate in this role will have passion, creativity, and an insatiable desire for process improvement and efficiency. They will also have a strong desire to be out in the factory, interacting with mechanics, safety, equipment services, and directly supporting the production system. In Production Engineering, we need highly responsible professionals committed to upholding the highest standards of safety, quality, and integrity.

Primary responsibilities:
Investigates and develops basic to moderately complex equipment and tooling concepts and specifications to satisfy aerospace product design and build requirements.
Participates in design reviews, collects design requirements, creates and revises drawings and models to support the build plan.
Creates specifications, purchase requests and usage instructions for equipment and tooling.
Self-checks design for compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors and regulatory requirements.
Develops and documents equipment and tooling inspection and usage instructions, preventative maintenance plans, and supports user training development.
Researches designs to create and revise usage instructions. Provides technical support for engineering changes and discrepancies by investigating problems, and analyzing data to identify solutions.
Maintains hardware and software configuration. Supports the disposition of equipment and tooling.

Occasional travel is possible for the Equipment & Tool Engineer position.

Shifts: First shift with potential to move to 2nd shift
The Equipment & Tool Engineer role is 100% onsite.

Job Requirements:

Typical Education/Experience:

Bachelor, Master, or Doctor of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or chemistry. ABET is a preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

Experience Level: Bachelor's degree and typically 9 or more years’ experience in an engineering classification or a Masters degree with typically 7 or more years’ experience in an engineering classification or Ph.D. degree with 4 or more years’ experience in an engineering classification

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):
Minimum 7 years of experience working in an engineering discipline
Minimum 7 years of experience with production systems in a manufacturing or engineering capacity

Preferred qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
Must be a motivated leader/self-starter.
Knowledge of various manufacturing techniques
Experience working in an Equipment or Tooling Engineer role
Experience working in a production environment
CATIA or equivalent solid modeling experience
Experience with programming, integrating or troubleshooting industrial controls from OEMs.
Experience using basic Microsoft Office and office computing systems
Experience in Automation and robotics
Ability to learn in a fast-paced environment
Ability to collaborate with both the engineering work force and the mechanics on the factory floor
Project management knowledge
Strong communication skills

Successful completion of training is a contingency for this assignment – OJT or formal classroom training.