Sustaining Engineer

Canoga Perkins•Chatsworth, CA

15h

About The Position

Canoga Perkins is seeking a hands-on Sustaining Engineer to support and enhance its existing product portfolio and manufacturing operations. The role focuses on maintaining and improving product performance, reliability, manufacturability, and lifecycle continuity. The engineer will investigate product and production issues, determine root causes, and develop and validate solutions. The position also supports component substitutions, product redesigns, engineering changes, and product improvements, ensuring changes are evaluated, documented, and introduced into production successfully. This is a hands-on role involving electronic hardware, PCB assemblies, test equipment, prototypes, test fixtures, and production test environments. The Sustaining Engineer collaborates with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Operations, technicians, and production teams to resolve technical challenges, improve processes, and maintain reliable product performance in the field and on the production floor.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on engineering experience.
Experience in a sustaining, manufacturing, test, hardware, or similar engineering role supporting electronic products.
Strong hands-on troubleshooting skills with electronic hardware and experience using test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers.
Experience working with PCB assemblies, prototypes, test fixtures, and production test environments.
Ability to perform structured root-cause analysis and develop, validate, and document effective corrective actions.
Familiarity with engineering change processes, such as ECOs/ECNs, and configuration or revision control.
Experience supporting component substitutions, product obsolescence, or product redesign activities.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfort working in a hands-on production environment and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting.

Nice To Haves

Experience with reliability, environmental, qualification, or validation testing of electronic products.
Familiarity with regulatory or compliance requirements for electronic products.
Experience with automated or semi-automated production test systems.
Experience with continuous improvement, manufacturing processes, or product lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

Investigate and troubleshoot product and production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
Maintain and improve product performance, reliability, manufacturability, and lifecycle continuity across the existing product portfolio.
Support component substitutions, obsolescence solutions, and product redesigns, including evaluation, testing, documentation, and production implementation.
Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Operations, and technicians to resolve technical and production challenges.
Develop, improve, and maintain test procedures, work instructions, and technical documentation for engineering and production use.
Set up, operate, and troubleshoot electronic hardware, PCB assemblies, prototypes, test fixtures, and production test equipment.
Support engineering change activities, including ECOs/ECNs, configuration control, change evaluation, and implementation planning.
Participate in product testing, qualification, reliability, and validation activities to confirm performance requirements are met.
Support prototype builds, rework, troubleshooting, and other hands-on engineering and production activities as needed.
Provide technical guidance and training to technicians and production personnel on product functionality, test methods, and troubleshooting.
Analyze recurring field and production issues, identify trends, and drive improvements that reduce defects, downtime, and repeat problems.