Vacuum Chamber Technician B - 2nd Shift

GKN•Garden Grove, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

GKN Aerospace is hiring a Vacuum Chamber Technician B to provide safe, reliable maintenance and production support for vacuum chambers and associated assets across its Garden Grove site. The role maintains and restores pumps, gauges, compressors, power supplies, heater assemblies, controls, instrumentation, and related mechanical and electrical systems through preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting, equipment recovery, inspections, shift handoffs, and documented CMMS closeout. The position works 2nd shift, from 1:45 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. The technician responds to equipment issues, diagnoses faults using technical documentation and approved tools, and performs maintenance according to procedures, job plans, specifications, and quality requirements. The position coordinates equipment status and safe return-to-service with production and supervisory personnel, manages work documentation and materials through Maintenance Connection, and contributes to handoffs, training, investigations, and maintenance improvements. The role requires compliance with site and regulatory safety controls, including lockout/tagout, electrical safety, confined-space, respirator, chemical-handling, cleanroom, permit, PPE, and machine-guarding requirements. The company describes itself as committed to sustainability, diversity, inclusion, belonging, and an accessible recruitment process, and notes that it offers industry training.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
At least two years of experience as an Electrician A or equivalent industrial maintenance experience demonstrating both electrical and mechanical troubleshooting capability, subject to applicable classification and labor-agreement requirements.
Working proficiency with Maintenance Connection or a comparable CMMS, including reviewing assigned work, documenting labor and parts, recording findings, and writing technically useful closeout notes.
Working knowledge of vacuum-system fundamentals and components, industrial electrical systems, controls, instrumentation, and PLC-based equipment interfaces.
Must be able to pass a Pulmonary Function Test.
Must be able to work while wearing a respirator and necessary cleanroom garments, and adhere to strict cleanroom protocol.
Ability to work safely around department chemicals using required engineering controls, procedures, PPE, and respiratory protection, with reasonable accommodation where applicable.
Ability to lift more than 50 pounds.
Ability to work in confined spaces and on uneven surfaces.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree, technical certificate, apprenticeship, or equivalent formal training in industrial maintenance, electrical technology, controls, vacuum technology, or a related discipline.
Experience with ASI vacuum systems or comparable chamber, autoclave, vacuum-pump, and process-control equipment.
Experience with Microsoft Office and digital maintenance documentation.
Applied math skills for electrical, vacuum, pressure, temperature, measurement, and troubleshooting calculations.
Experience with cleanroom practices, chemical handling, leak detection, vacuum instrumentation, heater controls, or equipment commissioning.

Responsibilities

Troubleshoot, restore, and escalate issues with vacuum chambers and associated mechanical, electrical, heating, cooling, pneumatic, and control systems.
Use technical manuals, schematics, drawings, diagrams, equipment history, and OEM documentation to diagnose faults and restore equipment.
Use approved diagnostic tools and measuring instruments to evaluate vacuum levels, leak integrity, electrical condition, temperature, pressure, flow, and equipment performance.
Perform assigned preventive, predictive, inspection, and corrective maintenance according to approved procedures, job plans, specifications, and quality requirements.
Execute vacuum-chamber preventive maintenance across the site, protect scheduled PM windows, document exceptions, and support recovery plans for missed or incomplete work.
Use Maintenance Connection to record assigned work, labor, parts, findings, failure information, follow-up actions, and closeout notes.
Identify parts and tooling needs, coordinate with Maintenance Stores and Spares, and escalate critical-spares risks while following approved purchasing and inventory processes.
Coordinate with production and supervisory personnel on equipment status, operating constraints, safe recovery, and return-to-service.
Provide approved operator guidance on daily equipment use and escalation of abnormal conditions.
Participate in shift handoffs, tiered daily management, technical training, root-cause investigations, PM improvement, commissioning, and knowledge transfer for new or modified equipment.
Follow applicable site and regulatory safety requirements, and stop and escalate work when controls are unclear or conditions are unsafe.