Equipment Reliability Engineer

The role

You will own the systems and technical work to keep critical manufacturing equipment safe, available, and capable. You will work with CNC machining tools and other production assets to lead repairs, establish maintenance, and build a CMMS.

What you will do

• Develop and execute the site equipment reliability roadmap for CNC machine tools and other critical manufacturing assets.
• Lead troubleshooting and breakdown repair for complex mechanical, electrical, controls, hydraulic, pneumatic, and precision-motion issues.
• Create and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance plans.
• Build and administer the CMMS from scratch.
• Establish and manage a critical spare parts inventory strategy.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and corrective action for failures.
• Own equipment commissioning and maintenance readiness for new or relocated machines.
• Establish and report reliability metrics.
• Manage improvement projects from scope through closeout.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, industrial, mechatronics engineering or a related technical field AND 3+ years of hands-on equipment reliability, industrial maintenance, ma
• OR 8+ years of progressively responsible industrial maintenance or equipment reliability experience, including substantial work with CNC machine tools and automated production equipment
• Ability to support off-shift, weekend, or on-call work as necessary
• Ability to work safely in an industrial environment
• Travel up to 10% for equipment acceptance, vendor support, training, or project needs

Nice to have

• Ability to diagnose and repair CNC machine tools or comparable complex production equipment across mechanical, electrical, controls, hydraulic, pneumatic, and precision systems
• Experience designing and implementing a CMMS program from a blank system
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment criticality, spare-parts strategy, root-cause analysis, FMEA, and reliability performance metrics
• Experience commissioning CNC equipment, automated manufacturing systems, or other capital assets
• Project management experience leading equipment upgrades, relocations, overhauls, maintenance shutdowns, or reliability improvements

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from

About the company

Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors to make clean energy abundant. The team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, and other organizations.