Manufacturing Equipment EngineerActive$42K–$104K
The opportunity
Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back.
What you'll do
Responsible for the equipment performance and improvement of multiple assigned production processes
Support 24/7 production by responding to and resolving breakdowns quickly to minimize downtime.
Active participant of cross functional teams while taking on improvement: projects to assist in improving production lines. Diagnoses equipment failures, finds root cause and improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness. Lead equipment upgrades with a focus on serviceability, reliability and process capability
Become expert level on all equipment and responsible for technician training.: Provide hands-on support to Maintenance team to troubleshoot and resolve downtime issues.
Takes initiative to create, implement and improve preventative and predictive: Maintenance documents and schedules in collaboration with maintenance team.
Ability to troubleshoot ladder logic to appropriately identify controls: issues and program ladder logic (Beckhoff). Familiarity with Atlas Copco torque tool systems to troubleshoot and continuously improve.
What they're looking for
- Participate in spare part analysis and inventory development, cost reduction,: improvement working with Spares Department to RMA faulty components and communicate needs to the vendor
- Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronic, or equivalent experience
- + years of engineering experience in a high-volume environment
- + years of experience developing and improving HMI’s and with PLC (Ignition: and Beckhoff preferred) programming, motion control, safety devices
