Facilities Engineer

Sigma Design•Gresham, OR

8d•$90,000 - $100,000•Onsite

About The Position

SIGMADESIGN has collaborated with a global company seeking an experienced Facilities Engineer to join their facility in Gresham, OR. This company has been operating for over 50 years and is recognized as the world’s leading lab-grown diamond and super-materials producer. This is a full-time permanent opportunity that offers excellent benefits including 4 weeks PTO in addition to 40 hours of sick time, as well as structured career and professional development. The Facilities Engineer is responsible for developing and executing the site’s maintenance strategy for mission critical utilities and infrastructure. The role focuses on planned reliability improvement, system ownership, and the creation of standardized processes, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the facility’s power, utilities, and building systems.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Chemical, or related engineering discipline.
Experience: Two plus years of experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment preferred, although high achieving recent graduates with strong practical aptitude will be considered.
BMS: Proven ability to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot BMS (preferably Siemens Desigo) to optimize facility performance is desired.
Risk Assessments: Skilled in developing and executing risk assessments, including hazard identification, impact analysis, and mitigation planning.
Presence: Position requires five days per week on site in Gresham, Oregon.
Awareness: Understands the implications of operating a mission critical facility and the importance of system redundancy and risk prioritization.
Documentation Driven: Comfortable creating structure where none exists and systemizing undocumented knowledge and field experience.
Adaptability: Able to work in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities and tight operational demands.
Decision Making: Makes timely data informed decisions and owns outcomes.
Development: Supports and develops the capability of the maintenance organization through guidance and knowledge sharing.
Simplifies: Avoids unnecessary complexity, focuses on root causes, and drives practical, sustainable solutions.
Accountability: Holds self and others to high standards of safety, compliance, and reliability performance.
Collaboration: Works effectively across Maintenance, Production, Engineering, and vendors to achieve shared goals.
Flexibility: Willingness to respond reasonably outside standard hours in support of critical equipment uptime, with travel expected to be rare.

Responsibilities

Develop technical ownership of site utility and facility systems, including electrical power distribution, process cooling water, hazardous gas exhaust, air compressors, UPS, specialty gases, BMS and controls, and standard building infrastructure.
Build and manage a structured maintenance strategy across all site systems, from mission critical utilities to lower priority building assets. This includes the integration of relevant OSHA, NFPA and AHJ compliance standards where applicable.
Develop, document, and standardize preventive and predictive maintenance processes, procedures, troubleshooting guides, and system manuals.
Support the transition of the site from the current CMMS to a new platform, ensuring asset lists, PMs, task plans, and hierarchies are complete, accurate, and sustainable.
Capture legacy knowledge held by site personnel and convert it into standardized documentation and process structures.
Ensure optimal building performance, energy efficiency, and integration with other facility systems through the on-site BMS.
Identify reliability risks, failure modes, and system constraints, and assist in prioritizing mitigations across the site.
Work with Facility Technicians and Reliability Engineering to troubleshoot equipment issues and restore service safely and efficiently.
Develop and execute detailed risk assessments including identifying hazards, evaluating operational and safety impacts, and implementing mitigation strategies. Ensure compliance with internal standards and external regulations while fostering a proactive approach to risk management.
Support commissioning and integration of facility upgrades and utility modifications as required.
Ensure that system drawings, logs, operating philosophies, and SOPs are updated to reflect as built conditions.
Manage interface with vendors and contractors where required to deliver safe and compliant support to site operations.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and operational uptime.