Senior Equipment Process Engineer - Upstream (Biopharma)

Location: Framingham, MA, United States of America

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 performance, lifecycle, criticality, documentation, maintenance strategy, and improvement priorities for assigned manufacturing, utility, facility, or laboratory equipment.
• Troubleshoot complex mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues and support repairs, testing, and return to service.
• Develop and approve executable maintenance work packages, risk-based preventive-maintenance programs, equipment BOMs, and critical-spares strategies.
• Lead equipment modifications and new-equipment projects through design reviews, vendor selection, FAT/SAT, commissioning, qualification, turnover, training, and maintenance readiness.
• Lead equipment-specific change controls and CAPAs, assess deviations, and ensure hardware changes are tested, documented, and closed.
• Drive reliability improvements and coordinate technical work with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, Finance, vendors, mechanics, and technicians.

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 equipment troubleshooting 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

• Biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, medical-device, SUT, or other cGMP manufacturing experience.
• 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, control 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 moves 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 opportunities to work with digital, data, and AI-driven technologies supporting medicine and vaccine delivery.
• Full-time employment in a regulated biopharmaceutical manufacturing environment.