Second Shift Senior Maintenance Technician

Helion•Everett, WA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Helion is hiring an onsite Senior Maintenance Technician in Everett, Washington, to maintain production equipment used to build high-voltage capacitors and integrated modules for its fusion reactor systems. The role involves troubleshooting electrical and mechanical issues, performing preventive and corrective maintenance, safely restoring equipment, and improving equipment readiness. The position reports to the Supervisor of Technical Maintenance. The listed schedule is second shift, 2:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; schedule flexibility may be needed as operations expand toward multi-shift and eventual 24/7 coverage. The technician will maintain and repair automated and industrial production equipment, including high-voltage test systems, laser welding and soldering equipment, material handling equipment, pumps, presses, conveyors, and related systems. Work requires safe practices around industrial hazards such as high voltage, stored energy, pressurized systems, lasers, and robotics. The role also supports emergency repairs and reliability improvements, documents maintenance activity in a CMMS or similar system, and helps improve preventive maintenance quality, uptime, MTTR, and equipment readiness.

Requirements

At least 5 years of relevant hands-on technical maintenance experience.
High school diploma or equivalent; technical degree, apprenticeship, military technical training, or formal controls training may be considered in place of some direct experience.
Electro-mechanical troubleshooting capability, with depth in either electrical or mechanical systems and the ability to work safely across both.
Ability to troubleshoot industrial electrical and mechanical systems, including 480V equipment, motors, drives, sensors, power distribution, safety circuits, bearings, belts, gearboxes, pumps, valves, pneumatics, hydraulics, tooling, and mechanical assemblies.
Ability to perform basic controls troubleshooting, including checking fault codes, sensors, and actuators; replacing field devices; and escalating programming, logic, robot, HMI, or drive-configuration issues.
Ability to use schematics, manuals, OEM documentation, work instructions, and maintenance records to troubleshoot equipment.
Ability to document maintenance activity in a CMMS or similar work-order system and support critical equipment issues in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Ability to support a second-shift schedule of 2:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Ability to work assigned schedules as operations evolve, including day, swing, night, rotating, overtime, weekend, or on-call coverage as needed.
Ability to lift up to 49 pounds unassisted; stand and walk during shifts up to 12 hours; and regularly bend, lift, stretch, and reach below the waist and above the head.

Nice To Haves

Relevant experience in industrial or manufacturing maintenance, equipment service, military maintenance, aviation, automotive diagnostics, field service, or machine building.
Technical degree, apprenticeship, military technical training, or formal controls training.

Responsibilities

Maintain and repair automated and industrial production equipment, including high-voltage test systems, laser welding equipment, soldering equipment, material handling equipment, pumps, presses, and conveyors.
Work safely around high voltage, stored energy, pressurized systems, lasers, and robotic equipment using established controls, including LOTO and electrical safe work practices.
Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, and basic controls issues using schematics, manuals, OEM documentation, maintenance history, and structured escalation.
Install, replace, and repair common electrical and mechanical components, including sensors, relays, contactors, motors, bearings, belts, gearboxes, pumps, valves, and seals.
Document labor, failures, repairs, parts, and equipment history in a CMMS or similar maintenance system.
Support emergency repairs and reliability improvements by identifying failure modes, needed tools and spares, return-to-service checks, and opportunities to improve preventive maintenance quality, uptime, MTTR, and equipment readiness.
Perform other duties as required.