What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Facilities Engineer position at Hyliion?
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Job Purpose
The Senior Facilities Engineer is responsible for ensuring the manufacturing plant's infrastructure, utilities, and building systems reliably support safe, efficient, and scalable production operations. This role is hands-on and plant-floor focused, directly enabling equipment uptime, production ramp, and layout changes as the facility moves from early production into steady-state manufacturing.
This position works closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and EHS to ensure the plant is always production ready.
Key Responsibilities
Manufacturing Utilities & Infrastructure
- Own the performance, capacity, spend, and reliability of plant utilities including:
- Electrical power distribution and machine drops
- Compressed air, vacuum, and process gases
- HVAC, ventilation, dust/fume extraction, and heat rejection
- Process water, chilled water, and drainage
- Ensure utilities meet equipment specifications and production load requirements
- Troubleshoot utility-related production downtime and support root cause analysis
Production Equipment & Layout Support
- Support installation, relocation, and commissioning of production equipment
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering on:
- Line layouts, workstation placement, and material flow
- Equipment moves and line rebalancing
- Ensure floor space, utilities, and safety systems are in place prior to equipment arrival
Production Ramp & Capacity Growth
- Plan and execute facility upgrades required for:
- Production volume increases
- New product introductions
- Additional shifts or extended run times
- Identify facility constraints that could limit throughput or uptime
- Develop phased facility expansion plans aligned to the production roadmap
Plant Maintenance & Reliability
- Establish and maintain preventive maintenance programs for:
- Electrical infrastructure
- HVAC and process utilities
- Building systems that impact production
- Support operations and maintenance teams during outages, shutdowns, and recovery events
- Drive improvements in uptime, response time, and mean time to repair (MTTR)
- Oversight of facility janitorial needs and vendor partners, including facility services repair
Safety, Compliance & Controls
- Ensure compliance with OSHA, NEC, NFPA, and local building codes
- Manage annual Fire Drill as well as the Red Wing vouchers for safety boots
- Inclement weather: Managefacility safety protocols and response actions during inclement weather to protect employees, visitors, and assets (e.g., salting walkways, backup power, etc.)
- Maintain the OSHA Form 300 log and 300A summary
- Support machine safety systems, interlocks, and emergency infrastructure
- Champion safety audits, incident investigations, and corrective actions
- Ensure facility changes follow proper change control and risk assessment
- Ensure that all new hires are loaded into the Safety Skills platform and assign role-specific training courses
Capital Projects & Contractors
- Lead facility-related capital projects on the plant floor and partner with Manufacturing Engineering & Operations for their capital projects
- Develop scopes of work, RFQs, and installation plans
- Manage contractors during production and shutdown windows
- Ensure work is executed safely and does not disrupt manufacturing operations
Documentation & Standard Work
- Maintain up-to-date facility drawings, utility schematics, and load calculations
- Create standard work for facility response and equipment support
- Support continuous improvement efforts on the plant floor
Additional duties as needed or required.
Qualifications
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Qualifications include:
- Education, Experience and Certifications
- Industrial electrical systems
- Manufacturing utilities (air, water, HVAC, exhaust)
- Production equipment installation and support
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 7-10 years supporting manufacturing plant facilities
- Hands-on experience with:
- Experience working directly on the plant floor in an operating factory
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in high-precision, low-volume or ramping production environments
- Industry experience in electro-mechanical, power-generation, EV, aerospace, or capital equipment manufacturing
- Familiarity with Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
- Experience supporting 24/7 or multi-shift operations
Core Competencies:
- Plant-floor ownership mentality
- Bias toward action and rapid problem resolution
- Strong cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to prioritize production needs in a dynamic environment
- Practical, hands-on engineering mindset
Role Classification and Working Conditions
This is a salaried, exempt-level position. This position typically works primarily in a production/operations environment.
Physical/Other Requirements
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to travel, as needed, by plane, automobile, etc.
We are not accepting candidates who require sponsorship for this position at this time.
Benefits:
- Medical Plans, with PPO or HDHP options
- Dental Plans, with buy-up option
- Vision Plan
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plans, with buy-up options
- Short Term Disability, paid for by the company
- Long Term Disability, paid for by the company
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401k/Roth 401k
- Voluntary Accident Plans
- Voluntary Critical Illness Plans
- Hospital Indemnity Plan
Hyliion is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, veteran status. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to otherwise participate in the employment selection process, please direct your inquires to Hyliion's human resources department at HR@hyliion.com.
Hyliion is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, or veteran status. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to otherwise participate in the employment selection process, please direct your inquiries to Hyliion’s human resources department at HR@hyliion.com.