Senior Equipment Process Engineer - Downstream (Biopharma)

Location: Framingham, MA, United States. US and Puerto Rico residents only.

Salary: $100,500.00–$145,166.66 annually.

Company

hirify.global is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharmaceutical company developing medicines and vaccines.

What you will do

• Own the health, design basis, operating limits, criticality, documentation, maintenance strategy, and lifecycle performance of assigned manufacturing, utility, facility, or laboratory equipment.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues alongside mechanics and technicians through repair, testing, and return to service.
• Develop and approve executable maintenance work packages, risk-based preventive-maintenance programs, equipment BOMs, critical-spares strategies, and obsolescence plans.
• Lead equipment modifications and new-equipment projects, including design reviews, vendor selection, FAT/SAT, commissioning, qualification, turnover, training, and maintenance readiness.
• Lead equipment-specific change controls and CAPAs, assess deviations, and ensure approved hardware changes are tested, documented, and closed.
• Improve reliability by eliminating repeat failures, emergency work, avoidable downtime, and obsolete-component exposure while coordinating with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, Finance, and vendors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering.
• At least 3 years of engineering experience supporting manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment in a regulated or high-reliability environment.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot equipment using drawings, manuals, data, failure history, and structured root-cause methods.
• Experience developing job plans, preventive-maintenance 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 risks and recommendations to technical teams and leaders.

Nice to have

• 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive, future-focused environment with opportunities for promotion or lateral career growth in the United States and internationally.
• Health and wellbeing benefits, including healthcare, prevention and wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.
• Rewards package and employee benefit programs.
• Work contributes to medicine and vaccine delivery through digital, data, and AI-driven innovation.