Hadrian Automation
Facility Engineer
Cherokee, AL. Posted a month ago
The role
The Facility Engineer supports the construction, equipment installation, commissioning, startup, and long-term operation of a large-scale advanced manufacturing facility. This role provides field-level engineering oversight for facility infrastructure and utility installations.
What you will do
- Provide engineering oversight for facility infrastructure and critical utility systems.
- Support equipment move-in and installation by coordinating utility requirements and contractor activities.
- Review and verify contractor installation of process water, compressed air, industrial gases, plumbing, HVAC, and mechanical piping.
- Identify installation deficiencies and coordinate corrective actions with contractors.
- Participate in system walkdowns, commissioning, startup, testing, and turnover activities.
- Support construction-to-operations turnover and documentation.
- Provide engineering support for HVAC, chillers, cooling towers, compressed air, industrial gas, plumbing, fire protection, emergency power, and BMS.
- Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
- Perform root cause analysis for equipment and system failures.
- Ensure contractors comply with site safety requirements and quality expectations.
Required qualifications
- Strong hands-on technical experience with industrial facility infrastructure, utilities, manufacturing equipment support, construction, commissioning, maintenance, or a related field.
- Experience working in a large industrial or manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of mechanical utility systems such as compressed air, chilled water, cooling water, HVAC, plumbing, industrial gases, and process piping.
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, P&IDs, equipment documentation, specifications, and technical manuals.
- Experience coordinating contractors, vendors, maintenance teams, or construction activities.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
- Understanding of industrial safety practices including Lockout/Tagout, confined space, hot work, line breaks, and contractor safety.
- Ability to work effectively in both an active construction environment and an operating manufacturing facility.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting a greenfield or major manufacturing facility startup.
- Experience with equipment/tool move-in and utility connection coordination.
- Experience with commissioning and operational readiness.
- Experience performing construction quality inspections and system walkdowns.
- Knowledge of Building Management Systems (BMS) and facility controls.
- Experience with chillers, cooling towers, air compressors, HVAC/CRAC systems, industrial gases, emergency generators, electrical distribution, and fire protection systems.
- Experience with SAP, Oracle, CMMS, or similar maintenance and enterprise systems.
- Experience developing preventive maintenance programs and reliability improvements.
- OSHA, HAZMAT, First Aid/CPR, Lockout/Tagout, confined-space, rigging, or similar industrial safety training
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Before you apply
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the
About the company
Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. They help aerospace and defense companies build mission-critical systems.