Precision Optics Equipment Reliability Engineer

IPG Photonics; Marlborough (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IPG Photonics in Marlborough, MA is seeking an Equipment Maintenance Engineer to ensure the reliability of precision optical fabrication and thin-film coating equipment. You will troubleshoot, improve maintenance activities, and support installations and upgrades while collaborating with multiple teams to maximize uptime.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on experience with high-vacuum systems, PLCs, and metrology equipment, plus strong problem-solving and documentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, or a related technical field.
• Two or more years of equipment engineering, maintenance engineering, or hands-on equipment support experience in precision or high-technology manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot automated equipment involving mechanical, electrical, controls, vacuum, and thermal systems.
• Experience with high-vacuum pumps, valves, gauges, seals, leak diagnosis, cooling systems, and vacuum-system cleanliness.
• Ability to read, interpret, and update electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, pneumatic diagrams, P&IDs, and technical procedures.
• Experience with CMMS systems, preventive maintenance, root-cause analysis, equipment upgrades, and assigned project work.
• Strong analytical, documentation, communication, coordination, and structured problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical resource for optical fabrication and thin-film coating equipment.
• Support CNC optical generators, grinders, mills, lapping and polishing machines, centering and edging equipment, MRF systems, precision cleaning systems, slurry and filtration systems, robotics, automation, and metrology-support equipment.
• Maintain and troubleshoot vacuum chambers, pumps, valves, seals, feedthroughs, gauges, leak-detection systems, power supplies, electron guns, ion sources, substrate heaters, motion systems, mass-flow controllers, process-gas systems, thickness monitors, chillers, and cooling-water systems.
• Diagnose mechanical, electrical, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic, vacuum, PLC, servo, VFD, high-voltage, and motion-control failures using established troubleshooting methods.
• Develop and refine preventive and predictive maintenance activities using equipment criticality, OEM recommendations, failure history, condition data, and process risk.
• Participate in root-cause analysis for downtime, repeat failures, maintenance-related defects, contamination events, vacuum instability, and equipment-related quality issues.
• Design and implement equipment modifications within assigned scope and review requirements to improve reliability, maintainability, safety, cleanliness, process capability, and cycle time.
• Support equipment installations, relocations, upgrades, refurbishments, commissioning, and decommissioning.
• Contribute to equipment specifications, design reviews, factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, and capital-equipment evaluations.
• Analyze equipment performance data and recommend actions based on uptime, failure trends, maintenance cost, process variation, and lifecycle risk.
• Create and maintain CMMS asset records, preventive-maintenance plans, equipment history, failure codes, bills of materials, spare-parts requirements, and technical procedures.
• Maintain accurate electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, P&IDs, software and parameter backups, equipment manuals, and service records.
• Support equipment return to production following repairs or modifications, including cleaning, leak checks, functional testing, calibration coordination, and production verification.
• Provide technical support and training to maintenance technicians and equipment operators within the employee's area of knowledge.
• Coordinate with OEM service providers, contractors, and repair vendors, and support spare-parts planning.
• Follow requirements for lockout/tagout, electrical and high-voltage safety, machine guarding, stored-energy control, compressed-gas safety, chemical handling, and cleanroom operations.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Mechanical aptitude

Electrical systems

Vacuum systems

Industrial maintenance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, or related

Tools

CMMS

P&IDs

Vacuum pumps

HVAC systems

Job description

IPG Photonics in Marlborough, MA is seeking an Equipment Maintenance Engineer to ensure the reliability of precision optical fabrication and thin-film coating equipment. You will troubleshoot, improve maintenance activities, and support installations and upgrades while collaborating with multiple teams to maximize uptime.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on experience with high-vacuum systems, PLCs, and metrology equipment, plus strong problem-solving and documentation skills.