Equipment Engineer – Fabrication Division (Associate, Mid-Level, and Senior Level)

Equipment Engineer – Fabrication Division (Associate, Mid-Level, and Senior Level)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is looking for Equipment Engineers to join our Production Engineering organization in Portland, OR. This Equipment Asset Integration/Systems focused position will support exciting new endeavors in the Fabrication Division. Our team is currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Associate, Mid-Level, and Senior engineers.

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 on the production floor, interacting with mechanics, safety, and 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:

This is an equipment development, implementation, and improvement role, involving engineering work with CNC Mills, Lathes, Shot Peen Equipment, and other processing equipment.The role is focused around defining technical requirements, integrating new equipment, modifying existing equipment to improve production/safety, and performing reliability analysis to ensure equipment can support production rates:

• Evaluate business unit and project requirements, develop complex equipment concepts and design solutions for the Production System
• Coordinate with suppliers, cross-functional teams, and procurement agents to manage tight schedules and budgets for equipment projects
• Generate complex equipment specifications & corresponding verification/validation test protocols for production equipment
• Address reliability and obsolescence issues by analyzing maintenance & spare parts usage records to optimize performance and reduce costs
• Optimize high precision milling, forming, and other metal processing equipment for safety, ergonomics, quality, flow, reliability, or maintainability
• Ensure compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors, and regulatory requirements
• Validate contractual performance milestones, maintain configuration control, conduct reviews, prepare plans for production readiness, preventative maintenance, and spares
• Develop and implements basic work-arounds and maintain configuration of hardware, software and documentation. 

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
• 2 or more years’ related engineering work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 2 or more years of project management experience supporting complex technical projects, evaluating/selecting equipment solutions, and assessing spare parts inventory in a production environment
• 1 or more years of experience working with hardware, software, and documentation configuration management
• 1 or more years of experience working to industry standards including compliance with hardware and safety codes
• Knowledge of various manufacturing techniques
• Experience in Automation and robotics
• Ability to learn in a fast paced environment
• Strong communication skills and an ability to collaborate across diverse teams
   

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.  

Union Representation:

• This is a union-represented position.
• In locations where SPEEA representation applies, this job family will be covered by the terms of the collective bargaining agreement. Applicable and appropriate educational/certification credentials from an accredited institution and/or equivalent experience is required.

Pay and Benefits:

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.