Senior Facilities Equipment Automation Engineer

Senior Facilities Equipment Automation Engineer

Company:

Spectrolab, Inc.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Facilities Equipment Automation Engineer to join our dynamic team in Sylmar, California.

Position Responsibilities – Level 4:

• Leads project teams to develop complex specifications, conceptual and final designs, cost estimates and provides maintenance support for the procurement or modification of equipment systems (e.g., ovens, autoclaves, furnaces, tank lines, etc.).
• Reviews specifications and/or designs to assess compliance with customer requirements, codes and applicable regulations by applying knowledge of process engineering, practices, and materials and takes appropriate corrective action.
• Participates on or leads cross-functional teams to integrate the activities of multiple engineering disciplines, outside consultants and government agencies.
• Leads teams to perform complex conceptual analysis to determine the cause of asset failures and reduction in asset capacity by using reliability tools and methods (e.g., life cycle analysis, condition based maintenance, root cause failure methodology, mean time between failures, fault tree analysis, etc.).
• Leads others in engineering and facilitating the implementation of complex improvements in asset effectiveness, availability, and maintainability to specify configuration of new assets in order to support reliability programs.
• Performs and documents condition code analysis of complex equipment as part of a team.
• Reviews records, inspects, measures, and tests to document assets operating and maintainability condition for the purpose of determining whether to continue to operate, repair, surplus, or replace.
• Assists in the development of equipment condition coding processes and standards.
• Controls hardware, software and documentation configuration of complex equipment in accordance with company procedures and legal requirements to ensure a maintainable, repeatable process.
• Assists in the development configuration management policies and processes.
• Creates cost estimates for the acquisition and/or installation or modification of complex equipment to support customer budget and business planning activities for current and future year requirements.
• Assists in the development of cost estimating policies and processes.
• Creates, reviews and approves complex equipment designs through the application of engineering methodologies for the acquisition, creation, or modification of equipment.
• Incorporates maintainability and reliability principles into all designs.
• Ensures the integration of equipment with related infrastructure.
• Assists in the development of design standards and tools.
• Creates, reviews, revises, maintains, and organizes equipment documents and drawings for complex equipment in accordance with company procedures and legal requirements.
• Assists in the development of documentation standards.
• Develops, approves, and implements the testing and acceptance of complex equipment to validate that equipment performance meets the documented specifications.
• Documents results for historical record.
• Assists in the development of equipment testing and acceptance standards.
• Creates, maintains, and communicates project management information to Sr. management.
• Assists in the creation of contract scope, terms, and conditions.
• Ensures suppliers comply with all contract obligations.
• Develops and recommends equipment reliability improvements through the application of reliability engineering tools to ensure that equipment operational and maintenance processes are effective and efficient for operations customers. Improves existing equipment reliability.
• Ensures that new equipment designs address maintainability and reliability principles.
• Provides technical recommendations and solutions by investigating, evaluating, interfacing with suppliers and stakeholders, troubleshooting and responding to maintenance/operator questions related to complex equipment.
• Assists in the development of equipment reliability policies and processes.
• Develops, reviews and approves bid and procurement specifications for complex equipment by teaming with cross functional subject matter experts and applying engineering methodologies for the acquisition or modification of equipment which will meet the stakeholders' requirements.
• Incorporates maintainability and reliability principles into all specifications.
• Assists in the development of equipment specification standards.
• Researches technologies, processes, materials, and methodologies related to complex equipment by attending educational events, reading technical publications, reviewing emerging trends, and studying historical data in order to identify opportunities for improvement in current and future projects.
• Mentors and shares learning with peers.
• Advises stakeholders on technology developments relevant to technical and business strategies. Identifies and assists in developing strategies and tactics to address market dynamics of our suppliers and their products.
• Trains and/or assists in the development and delivery of training of operators, maintenance personnel and others in order to transmit information necessary to correctly operate and maintain complex equipment.
• Delivers training for new or modified equipment, changes in process, changes in personnel, and/or as periodically required by company policy or legal requirement.

Position Responsibilities –  Level 5:

• Leads teams to develop complex or unique specifications, conceptual and final designs, cost estimates and provides maintenance support for the procurement or modification of equipment systems (e.g., ovens, autoclaves, furnaces, tank lines, etc.).
• Coaches and guides others to align specifications and/or designs with customer requirements, codes and applicable regulations by applying knowledge of process engineering, practices, and materials.
• Participates on or leads cross-functional, enterprise-wide teams to integrate the activities of multiple engineering disciplines, outside consultants and government agencies.
• Leads teams to perform complex or unique conceptual analysis to determine the cause of asset failures and reduction in asset capacity by using reliability tools and methods (e.g., life cycle analysis, condition based maintenance, root cause failure methodology, mean time between failures, fault tree analysis, etc.).
• Instructs others in engineering and facilitating the implementation of complex or unique improvements in asset effectiveness, availability, and maintainability to specify configuration of new assets in order to support reliability programs.
• Leads teams to develop complex or unique specifications, conceptual designs and final designs, cost estimates and provides maintenance support for the procurement or modification of equipment (e.g., machine tools, computerized test equipment, control systems, etc.).
• Coaches and guides others to align specifications and/or designs with customer requirements, codes and applicable regulations by applying knowledge of electrical engineering principles, practices, and materials.
• Coaches and guides others to align specifications and/or designs with customer requirements, codes and applicable regulations by applying knowledge of mechanical l engineering principles, practices, and materials.
• Serves as enterprise resource to perform and document condition code analysis of equipment as part of a team.
• Reviews records, inspects, measures, and tests to document assets operating and maintainability condition for the purpose of determining whether to continue to operate, repair, surplus, or replace.
• Develops equipment condition coding processes and standards.
• Serves as enterprise resource to control hardware, software and documentation configuration of complex equipment in accordance with company procedures and legal requirements to ensure a maintainable, repeatable process. Develops configuration management policies and processes.
• Serves as enterprise resource to create cost estimates for the acquisition and/or installation or modification of complex equipment to support customer budget and business planning activities for current and future year requirements.
• Develops cost estimating policies and processes.
• Serves as enterprise resource to create, review and approve complex equipment designs through the application of engineering methodologies for the acquisition, creation, or modification of equipment.
• Designs will meet the stakeholders' validated specifications, requirements, and/or functions, including adherence to applicable legal requirements. Incorporates maintainability and reliability principles into all designs.
• Ensures the integration of equipment with related infrastructure.
• Develops design standards and tools. Serves as enterprise resource to create, review, revise, maintain, and organize equipment documents and drawings of equipment in accordance with company procedures and legal requirements.
• Develops documentation standards.
• Serves as enterprise resource to develop, approve, and implement the testing and acceptance of complex equipment to validate that equipment performance meets the documented specifications.
• Documents results for historical record.
• Develops equipment testing and acceptance standards.
• Serves as enterprise resource to plan, manage, and coach others in the execution of multiple major/complex projects by leading a team of stakeholders in the acquisition and modification of equipment to enable the customer to achieve the defined business objectives in accordance with company and accounting policies as applied to equipment.
• Manages project expenditures within authorized budgets.
• Creates, maintains, and communicates project management information to Sr. management.
• Assists in the creation of contract scope, terms, and conditions.
• Ensures suppliers comply with all contract obligations.
• Promotes the use of project management methodologies.
• Serves as enterprise resource to develop and recommend equipment reliability improvements through the application of reliability engineering tools to ensure that equipment, operational, and maintenance processes are effective and efficient for operations customers.
• Improves existing equipment reliability.
• Ensures that new equipment designs address maintainability and reliability principles.
• Provides technical recommendations and solutions by investigating, evaluating, interfacing with suppliers and stakeholders, troubleshooting and responding to maintenance/operator questions related to complex equipment.
• Develops equipment reliability policies and processes.
• Serves as enterprise resource to develop, review and approve bid and procurement specifications of complex equipment by teaming with cross functional subject matter experts and applying engineering methodologies for the acquisition or modification of equipment which will meet the stakeholders' requirements.
• Incorporates maintainability and reliability principles into all specifications.
• Develops equipment specification standards.
• Serves as enterprise resource to provide technical recommendations and solutions by investigating, evaluating, interfacing with suppliers and stakeholders.
• Troubleshoots and responds to maintenance and/or operator questions related to complex equipment to support the customers requests.
• Serves as enterprise resource to research technologies, processes, materials, and methodologies related to equipment by attending educational events, reading technical publications, reviewing emerging trends, and studying historical data in order to identify opportunities for improvement in current and future projects.
• Mentors and shares learning with peers.
• Advises stakeholders on technology developments relevant to technical and business strategies. Identifies and develops strategies and tactics to address market dynamics of our suppliers and their products.
• Serves as enterprise resource to train and/or assist in the development and delivery of training of operators, maintenance personnel and others in order to transmit information necessary to correctly operate and maintain complex equipment.
• Delivers training for new or modified equipment, changes in process, changes in personnel, and/or as periodically required by company policy or legal requirement.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's, Master's or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry.
• Experience with software coding practices.
• More than 5 years of experience with automation systems maintenance, robotics systems, and various types of equipment controllers, such as Siemens 840D, Fanuc, and Allen Bradley.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Senior Level 4: More than 5 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Lead Level 5: More than 10 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• More than 5 years of Software Configuration Management experience.

Typical Education/Experience:

Level 4: Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 years' related work experience, Master+7 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

Level 5: Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 14 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+9 years' related work experience, Master+12 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard

Travel:

Position may require travel up to 20% of the time.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Total Rewards & Pay Transparency:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. 

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work. 

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range Senior Level 4: $119,850 - $162,1500

Summary pay range Lead Level 5: $141,100 - $190,900

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Relocation:

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Export Control Requirement:

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Safety Sensitive:

This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.

Security Clearance:

This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

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