The unbound nucleus 7 He has been investigated via the reaction of a 16.8 MeV 6 He radioactive ion beam on a 9 Be target. The measurement of the outgoing 8 Be through its well characterized two-α decay permitted the energy of the 6 He +n system to be reconstructed. Through comparison with a complete Monte Carlo simulation incorporating R-matrix lineshapes, the 7 He ground state was determined to lie 0.380(28) MeV above the neutron decay with a width of = 0.179(21) MeV. A neutron spectroscopic factor SF = 0.608(18) was extracted in agreement with the most recent calculations. Significant evidence was found for a broad resonance lying at 2.6(2) MeV above threshold with a FWHM = 2.3(3) MeV. These parameters are fully consistent with the properties of 1/2 − state reported by Wuosmaa et al. [Phys. Rev. C 72, 061301(R) (2005)]. Limits were also put on the presence of narrow resonances seen in earlier experiments.