Sr Staff Facilities Engineer

Skywater•Austin, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Provide technical guidance to technicians and engineers. This role requires expertise in various facility systems including cooling systems (chillers, glycol chillers, cooling towers, process cooling water, water treatment), HVAC systems (FTU’s, make-up air handler units, air flow patterns, cleanroom filters, DX units), hot water systems (boilers), compressed air system, process vacuum, and scrubbing systems and general exhaust. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining equipment, reviewing and ensuring preventative maintenance is completed to specification and schedule, and implementing or modifying PMs. This role also involves active participation in department meetings, capital planning, and expense budgeting, SPC monitoring, leading process changes, root cause analysis on incidents, and managing complex capital and expense projects from concept to commissioning. The position requires driving continuous improvements, adapting quickly, upholding area upkeep and 5S principles, adhering to environmental health and safety policies, completing job hazard assessments, collaborating cross-departmentally, and maintaining/creating standard operating procedures. Training operations on SOPs and LOTO, and detailed record keeping and reporting are also key responsibilities.

Requirements

4 Year Technical degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent discipline
10+ years of work experience
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in AutoCAD

Responsibilities

Provide technical guidance to technicians and engineers
Technical expert for cooling systems (chillers, glycol chillers, cooling towers, process cooling water, water treatment)
Technical expert for HVAC systems (FTU’s, make-up air handler units, air flow patterns, cleanroom filters, DX units)
Clear understanding of requirements behind sustaining a cleanroom (characterization, instrumentation, filters, and general materials)
Technical expert for hot water systems (boilers), compressed air system, process vacuum
Technical expert for scrubbing systems and general exhaust
Responsible for maintaining equipment in respective systems including coordination with contractors
Responsible for reviewing and ensuring preventative maintenance are completed to spec and to planned schedule
Responsible for system upkeep and implementing or modify PM’s accordingly
Active lead in supporting department meetings, capital planning, and expense budgeting
SPC monitoring in accordance with facilities specs
Lead process changes through process control board as needed
Root cause analysis on incidents
Manage complex capital and expense projects, from concept to scope to timeline delivery and commissioning
Work within defined technical processes and procedures
Initiate and drive continuous improvements, strive for impact
Ability to adapt and move quickly to accomplish goals
Uphold area upkeep and 5S principles
Adhere to environmental health and safety policies
Ability to complete job hazard assessments alongside contractors and internal teams
Collaborate cross-departmentally, escalate as required
Clear and effective communication
Maintenance and creation of standard operating procedures
Ability to train operations on SOPs and LOTO
Detail-oriented record keeping and reporting