Machine Maintenance and Integration Engineer

The role

You will own work control for experimental and large-scale fusion machines to keep them ready for operation. You will coordinate maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and integration work by building work plans across teams and shifts.

What you will do

• Plan and coordinate maintenance and upgrades on complex, tightly integrated, first-of-a-kind equipment
• Turn ambiguous requests from multiple teams into clear, executable work plans
• Manage equipment configuration, maintenance planning, work authorization, and handoffs
• Identify conflicts, surface risks, and bring the right people into decisions
• Assess how proposed work affects configuration, access, operations, and other scheduled work

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field
• 4+ years planning and coordinating maintenance, modifications, or upgrades in a complex operating facility
• Hands-on experience in a shipyard, power plant, nuclear facility, large-scale experiment, or similar setting
• Familiarity with high-voltage, vacuum, or pulsed power systems
• CMMS experience
• Strong first-principles and structured problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of LOTO, work permits, and MOC on equipment with significant stored energy
• Experience building or improving preventive maintenance plans and using equipment history to find reliability problems
• Ability to read technical drawings and work with engineers and technicians on installation, testing, and maintainability requirements
• Experience reviewing, approving, and scheduling work, resolving competing requests, and building consensus across teams

Nice to have

• Formal work control, work authorization, or configuration management experience
• Experience planning outages, commissioning, or integration tests on operating equipment
• Experience building a work planning or maintenance process that scales across facilities or devices

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
• 31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
• 10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break
• Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
• Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
• Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
• Annual wellness stipend

About the company

Helion is a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant. They have raised $1.5 billion from investors to propel their work toward the Orion fusion power plant.