Title: Facilities Engineer II
Duration: 1 year
Location: Irvine, CA, 92612
Position Summary/Purpose:
This role is responsible for overseeing and optimizing utility efficiencies across a large campus with a central utility plant. Scope includes monitoring and improving electrical usage, natural gas consumption, water management, and facility HVAC systems. The position requires strong technical expertise in mechanical and/or electrical engineering with demonstrated experience in facilities operations. Knowledge and hands-on experience with industrial utility systems-such as chiller plants, cooling towers, air compressors, standby generators, and HVAC systems including boilers, air handling units, variable air volume (VAV) systems, and building automation controls-is highly valued.
Familiarity with electrical distribution infrastructure, transformers, switchgear, lighting systems, and power quality management is also expected. The engineer will lead energy management initiatives, implement operational best practices, and contribute to sustainability goals through continuous assessment and improvement of utility and facility performance.
Special interest in candidates with experience with sustainability/energy reduction initiatives, and carbon footprint reduction efforts.
Top Skills:
1. Electrical Engineering > Mechanical Engineering > Chemical Engineering BS Degree
2. Hands on experience in troubleshooting and work experience in a mechanical environment
3. Capability to understand data and able to analyze it
4. Communication skills, being able to take an idea and effectively communicate across different functions
5. Minimum 3 years of experience, ideally 3-5 years.
Responsibilities
- Develop a structured decarbonization and energy strategy for a large campus (~50 acres).
- Identify, Prioritize and Execute carbon reduction capital project initiatives and programs.
- Work with Project Engineering to review maintenance and installation plans for new equipment, and provide reliability and maintainability specifications for changes, to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.
- Identify and recommend utility related projects within the central utility plant or campus distribution network that will deliver a return on investment or reliability increase.
- Develop and deliver presentations to skip-level management clearly and concisely communicating decarbonization / energy reduction projects and strategies.
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with leadership, peers, and site stakeholders to positively contribute to team culture and effectively execute projects.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency with major utility systems, Steam Boilers, Chiller Plant, Compressed Air, and water distribution systems.
- Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding code of conduct, safety, site procedures, and GxP compliance.
- Develop and enforce an Asset Operations Plan Priorities that will ensure optimum utilization and operating efficiency of facility's assets, and development of an Asset Maintenance Plan to ensure adequate levels of sustaining effective maintenance for each plant asset on the asset register.
- Responsible for adherence to Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets and conduct root cause failure analysis (RCFA) by understanding and applying failure data analysis techniques, perform analyses of asset and equipment performance to include asset utilization, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time between Failure (MTBF) and remaining useful life as guiding parameters.
- Generate asset management plan that includes creation of value-added preventative maintenance tasks and determine the most effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methods to identify inherent reliability problems.
- Define an approach to risk management that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could have adverse operational impact.
- Follows established guidelines to comply with regulatory agencies such as; OSHA, FDA, EPA, ETC.
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering.
- Total minimum years of experience required 3 years.
- Skills / Practical Knowledge: Basic technical skills working with equipment; Health Care/Pharmaceutical industry and/or Utilities processes.
- Must have good interpersonal skills and good communication skills to keep all personnel involved in an activity well informed.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.
- Preferred Qualifications and Experience
- ISO 50001 Program Creation and familiarity with ISO requirements.
- Six Sigma Green / Lean Philosophy
- Experience in hands on troubleshooting and FMEA methodology
- SolidWorks or AutoCAD proficiency
- Experience with Automation Systems for integration
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Spectraforce Technologies
Mar 06, 2026