Job Title: Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream
About the JobThe Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream is the technical owner for an assigned portfolio of manufacturing, utility, facility, or laboratory equipment. This role improves equipment safety, compliance, availability, and lifecycle performance by combining hands-on troubleshooting with effective maintenance strategies, equipment changes, technical documentation, and cross-functional leadership.
Main Responsibilities- Own equipment performance and lifecycle: Maintain asset health, design basis, operating limits, criticality, failure history, documentation, maintenance strategy, obsolescence risks, and improvement priorities.
- Lead troubleshooting and field support: Diagnose complex mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues. Partner directly with mechanics and technicians through repair, testing, and return to service.
- Build executable maintenance plans: Develop and technically approve complete work packages, including scope, sequence, labor, parts, tools, permits, LOTO, acceptance criteria, post-maintenance testing, and restoration requirements.
- Optimize preventive maintenance and spares: Create risk-based PM strategies, equipment BOMs, critical-spares lists, stocking recommendations, and obsolescence mitigation plans using equipment criticality, failure modes, OEM guidance, and operating history.
- Lead equipment changes and projects: Define technical requirements and lead design reviews, vendor selection, FAT/SAT, commissioning, qualification, turnover, training, maintenance readiness, and documentation for modifications and new equipment.
- Own technical quality actions: Lead equipment-specific change controls and CAPAs, provide timely deviation assessments, and ensure approved hardware changes are implemented, tested, documented, and effectively closed.
- Drive reliability improvement: Use downtime, repeat work, deviations, maintenance findings, and condition data to eliminate bad actors and improve reliability, maintainability, safety, and compliance.
- Coordinate vendors and stakeholders: Develop technical scopes, assess vendor capability and performance, and collaborate with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, and Finance.
Key Deliverables - Technically complete, schedule-ready work packages and maintenance master data.
- Risk-based PM programs, accurate equipment BOMs, and critical-spares strategies.
- Timely, technically sound closure of deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and engineering actions.
- Reduced repeat failures, emergency work, avoidable downtime, and obsolete-component exposure.
- Complete maintenance readiness and technical turnover for equipment changes and new assets.
- Accurate, traceable, and inspection-ready drawings, specifications, manuals, and records.
About YouBasic Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or 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.
Preferred - 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.
The salary range for this position is:
$100,500.00 - $145,166.66
All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
