Equipment Maintenance Engineer

Support high-powered vacuum and deposition equipment, including vacuum chambers, pumps, valves, seals, gauges, leak-detection systems, power supplies, motion systems, cooling systems, and related components. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys getting into the equipment, troubleshooting complex problems, improving reliability, and working closely with maintenance technicians and manufacturing teams.

About the Opportunity
A well-established advanced manufacturing organization in the Worcester County area is seeking an Equipment Maintenance Engineer to support the reliability, performance, and lifecycle of sophisticated production equipment.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys getting into the equipment, troubleshooting complex problems, improving reliability, and working closely with maintenance technicians and manufacturing teams.

The ideal candidate will have a combination of engineering education, strong mechanical aptitude, and hands-on experience supporting automated manufacturing equipment. Experience with vacuum systems and vacuum deposition equipment is highly desirable.
What You'll Do

• Troubleshoot and support maintenance of complex automated manufacturing equipment.
• Diagnose mechanical, electrical, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic, vacuum, thermal, PLC, servo, VFD, and motion-control issues.
• Support high-powered vacuum and deposition equipment, including vacuum chambers, pumps, valves, seals, gauges, leak-detection systems, power supplies, motion systems, cooling systems, and related components.
• Support equipment recovery, repairs, chamber maintenance, vacuum leak diagnosis, and recurring-failure investigations.
• Perform root-cause analysis for equipment downtime, repeat failures, quality issues, and other equipment-related problems.
• Develop and improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Review equipment history, failure data, OEM recommendations, and equipment criticality to identify reliability improvements.
• Support equipment modifications, upgrades, installations, and commissioning.
• Monitor equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve uptime and reduce recurring issues.
• Create and update equipment documentation, technical procedures, and SOPs.
• Maintain accurate equipment records, maintenance history, spare-parts information, schematics, drawings, manuals, and service documentation.
• Support equipment return-to-production activities following repairs or modifications, including functional testing and calibration coordination.
• Collaborate with maintenance technicians, operators, engineers, and manufacturing teams to troubleshoot equipment issues.
• Coordinate with OEMs, contractors, and outside repair vendors as needed.
• Support technical troubleshooting and provide guidance to maintenance technicians.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Approximately 2–5 years of equipment engineering, maintenance engineering, manufacturing engineering, or hands-on equipment support experience.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and hands-on troubleshooting ability.
• Experience troubleshooting automated manufacturing equipment.
• Experience with mechanical and electrical systems and industrial controls.
• Vacuum systems experience is highly desirable, particularly high-vacuum or vacuum deposition equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, pneumatic diagrams, P&IDs, and technical documentation.
• Experience with preventive maintenance, root-cause analysis, equipment upgrades, or reliability improvement projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with both engineering and maintenance personnel.

Preferred Experience
Experience in one or more of the following environments is highly desirable:

• Semiconductor
• Photonics/optics
• Precision manufacturing
• Thin-film/coating
• Vacuum technology
• Advanced electronics
• Medical device
• Aerospace
• Other highly automated or technically complex manufacturing environments

Additional valuable experience includes:

• Vacuum deposition
• Sputtering
• E-beam or thermal evaporation
• Thin-film/coating equipment
• Vacuum leak detection
• PLC-controlled equipment
• Robotics and automation
• Motion-control systems
• Industrial networks
• Chillers and cooling systems
• Clean manufacturing environments
• CMMS systems
• Reliability-centered maintenance
• FMEA / TPM / Lean manufacturing

Schedule & On-Call

• Monday–Friday, 7:00 AM–3:30 PM