Hiring: Equipment Maintenance Engineer Company: IPG Photonics Location: Marlborough, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 12:05:22 Target Skills & Keywords : Lean Manufacturing, PLC About the job Experience: •2-5 years of equipment engineering, maintenance engineering, manufacturing engineering, or hands-on equipment support experience in a manufacturing environment. •5 years of equipment engineering, maintenance engineering, manufacturing engineering, or hands-on equipment support experience in a manufacturing environment. Required Skills: •Support troubleshooting and maintenance activities for optical fabrication and thin-film coating equipment under the guidance of senior engineers and maintenance leadership. •Support CNC optical generators, grinders, mills, lapping and polishing machines, centering and edging equipment, MRF systems, precision cleaning systems, slurry and filtration systems, robotics, automation, and metrology-support equipment. •Support e-beam evaporation, thermal evaporation, sputtering, ion-assisted deposition, plasma, and other vacuum-deposition systems. •Maintain and troubleshoot vacuum chambers, pumps, valves, seals, feedthroughs, gauges, leak-detection systems, power supplies, electron guns, ion sources, substrate heaters, motion systems, mass-flow controllers, process-gas systems, thickness monitors, chillers, and cooling-water systems. •Diagnose mechanical, electrical, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic, vacuum, thermal, PLC, servo, VFD, high-voltage, and motion-control failures using established troubleshooting methods. •Support equipment recovery, vacuum leak diagnosis, contamination response, chamber maintenance, repairs, shutdown activities, and recurring-failure investigations. •Assist in developing and improving preventive and predictive maintenance activities using equipment criticality, OEM recommendations, failure history, condition data, and process risk. •Participate in root-cause analysis for downtime, repeat failures, maintenance-related defects, contamination events, vacuum instability, and equipment-related quality issues. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field. Equivalent technical education and relevant equipment experience may be considered. •Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot automated equipment involving mechanical, electrical, controls, vacuum, and thermal systems. •Operational familiarity with vacuum systems, pumps, valves, cooling systems, and automated manufacturing equipment. Experience supporting high-vacuum systems is a plus. •Demonstrated capacity to read, interpret, and update electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, pneumatic diagrams, P&IDs, and technical procedures. •Strong analytical, documentation, communication, coordination, and structured problem-solving skills. •Exposure to precision manufacturing, photonics, semiconductor, medical device, aerospace, or similar manufacturing environments preferred. •Operational familiarity with vacuum systems, automated manufacturing equipment, PLC-controlled machines, or industrial maintenance practices preferred. •Operational familiarity with PLCs, robotics, machine vision, industrial networks, chillers, cleanroom HVAC, compressed air, and deionized-water systems. •Knowledge of Lean manufacturing, TPM, FMEA, CAPA, reliability-centered maintenance, ISO 9001, AS9100, or ISO 13485. Compensation: •$75,000 - $100,000 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!