Staff Equipment Engineer

Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.

Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.

Purpose

Join our mission to redefine aerospace and automotive manufacturing through advanced Additive Manufacturing. We are seeking a hands-on Additive Manufacturing Equipment Engineer to help transition next-generation Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) production equipment from development into high-volume manufacturing.

This role helps ensure our production equipment is stable, reliable, scalable, and capable of delivering world-class safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance. As our manufacturing footprint expands across multiple factories, you will solve equipment problems at the machine level and help transform those solutions into engineering standards deployed across the entire fleet.

Success in this role requires strong troubleshooting skills, independent technical judgment, and the drive to grow into broader fleet-level ownership. You will work alongside senior equipment engineers to stabilize new machines, improve reliability, and build the standards that carry the fleet as it scales.

• •Support Service and Operations
• •Improve existing work instructions and write new ones where gaps exist, with the goal of Service team autonomy for most day-to-day issues.
• •Act as a technical resource for operators and Service, including formally as part of the Service Level Agreement (SLA). This includes taking the lead on novel issues that existing procedures do not cover.
• •Support preventative maintenance improvements based on observed equipment performance, and define how performance data should drive PM content and intervals.
• •Mentor engineers, technicians, and operators so that knowledge from difficult investigations moves out of individuals and into the system.
• •Own Equipment Reliability and Resolve Fleet Problems
• •Take technical ownership of assigned equipment after qualification, and track performance against safety, quality, delivery, and cost baselines.
• •Mine existing datasets to discover issues, in particular machine process data and downstream printed part data (non-conformances, witness coupons), and connect the two to find causes that neither dataset shows alone.
• •Develop trend and reliability data across the fleet, and use it to decide what the team should work on first.
• •Initiate and complete RCCAs end to end: identify the issue, set short-term containment, and drive long-term corrective action. Lead the most complex or cross-functional investigations and coach others through theirs.
• •Engage with Development Engineering: provide regular input on machine reliability and recommend targeted fixes with input from Operations and Service. Prioritized requests to the Development organization are an output of the team, not of one person, and you will help the team build and defend that priority list.
• •Drive cost reduction through equipment optimization.
• •Change and Configuration Management
• •Determine when and where specific changes to assets are made, and help define what does and does not need formal change control.
• •Support development and improvements to both the change approval process and the configuration control process.
• •Document lessons learned so they can be standardized across the fleet and future factories.

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