Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream
About The Position
The Senior Equipment Process Engineer – Upstream is the technical owner for an assigned portfolio of manufacturing, utility, facility, or laboratory equipment. The role improves equipment safety, compliance, availability, and lifecycle performance through hands-on troubleshooting, effective maintenance strategies, equipment changes, technical documentation, and cross-functional leadership. The position supports equipment performance and lifecycle management, field troubleshooting and repair, maintenance planning and preventive-maintenance optimization, equipment changes and projects, technical quality actions, and reliability improvements. It also coordinates vendors and collaborates with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, and Finance. The role is based in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or a related engineering discipline.
- At least 3 years of engineering experience supporting manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment in a regulated or high-reliability environment.
- Demonstrated equipment troubleshooting capability using drawings, manuals, data, failure history, and structured root-cause methods.
- Experience developing job plans, PM tasks, technical specifications, spare-parts recommendations, or maintenance strategies.
- Experience supporting equipment modifications, commissioning, qualification, change control, deviations, or CAPAs.
- Ability to work effectively in the field and communicate technical risk and recommendations to technical teams and leaders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, medical-device, SUT, or other cGMP manufacturing.
- Working knowledge of CMMS/EAM systems, equipment BOMs, work-order controls, and maintenance master data.
- Knowledge of reliability methods, including criticality, FMEA, root cause analysis, condition monitoring, bad-actor elimination, and lifecycle planning.
- Experience with P&IDs, electrical and mechanical drawings, instrumentation, controls interfaces, and OEM technical packages.
- PE, CMRP/CRL, Lean/Six Sigma, project-management training, or related professional certification.
Responsibilities
- Maintain equipment asset health, design basis, operating limits, criticality, failure history, documentation, maintenance strategy, obsolescence risks, and improvement priorities.
- Diagnose complex mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues, and partner with mechanics and technicians through repair, testing, and return to service.
- Develop and technically approve complete work packages, including scope, sequence, labor, parts, tools, permits, LOTO, acceptance criteria, post-maintenance testing, and restoration requirements.
- Create risk-based preventive-maintenance strategies, equipment bills of materials, critical-spares lists, stocking recommendations, and obsolescence mitigation plans.
- Define technical requirements and lead design reviews, vendor selection, FAT/SAT, commissioning, qualification, turnover, training, maintenance readiness, and documentation for modifications and new equipment.
- Lead equipment-specific change controls and CAPAs, provide timely deviation assessments, and ensure approved hardware changes are implemented, tested, documented, and effectively closed.
- Use downtime, repeat work, deviations, maintenance findings, and condition data to eliminate bad actors and improve reliability, maintainability, safety, and compliance.
- Develop technical scopes, assess vendor capability and performance, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Produce technically complete, schedule-ready work packages and maintenance master data; risk-based PM programs; accurate equipment BOMs and critical-spares strategies; timely closure of quality and engineering actions; maintenance readiness and turnover; and traceable, inspection-ready records.
Benefits
- Health and wellbeing benefits, including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs.
- At least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
- Rewards package recognizing employee contributions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
