Maintenance Reliability Engineer, Automation & Controls (Starship)

SpaceX • TX

106d

About The Position

As Starship production continues to push new bounds in order to satisfy the growing demands of the space industry, the complex and ever-evolving critical equipment required to build, integrate, and test our products must work harder than ever. Equipment Reliability Engineers hold the keys to the production machine; they not only help identify some of the most risk-heavy SpaceX production assets, but they technically diagnose, advise, implement, and execute a strategic path forward at the equipment-level to promote system reliability, minimize losses, and maximize critical asset efficiencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, reliability, or operations.

Nice To Haves

• Developed understanding of mechanical, fluid, and electrical component functions.
• Experience using Microsoft SQL and PowerBI.
• Ability to read and understand equipment schematics, P&ID, GD&T and OEM manuals.
• Basic understanding of maintenance and reliability KPIs; OEE, MTBF, MTTR.
• Detail oriented, organized, and able to demonstrate a high sense of urgency.
• Process integration and electromechanical/mechatronic systems experience.
• Experience in a variety of robotic weld applications (Kuka, ABB & Fanuc).
• Electrical schematic CAD experience using EPlan.
• PLC programming experience, preferably Siemens TIA Portal & Beckhoff TwinCAT 3.
• HMI and SCADA programming experience.
• Field bus networks, serial communication and Ethernet communication.
• Hands-on experience building and commissioning high quality electrical control panels and electro-mechanical systems.
• Knowledge of NEC, NFPA 79, UL508A codes.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience in fast-paced iterative design and manufacturing environments.
• Experience solving complex problems with little to no supervision, on schedule, as an individual or as a member of an integrated team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy a reliability SCADA system for the Starship manufacturing reliability.
• Integrate deployed equipment into SpaceX Internet of Things (IoT) to enable real time performance monitoring, ticket generation, and more.
• Enable setting predictive and condition-based monitoring triggers.
• Drive investigations & own design improvements for all starship manufacturing tooling, with a heavy focus on electrical/automation.
• Lay out new industrial electrical control panels that are NFPA79/NEC/UL508A compliant and create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics.
• Own equipment improvement plans for maintenance strategies and equipment availability to maximize production equipment availability.
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive or high consequence failures on critical equipment through Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Generate aesthetically simple HMI screens for complex machinery while providing sufficient feedback for troubleshooting.
• Conduct Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) to create proactive reliability programs for critical equipment.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to drive process improvements, design iterations and complete equipment overhauls.
• Integrate with internal tooling, automation and production teams to ensure maintainability of design is incorporated into new internally designed equipment.
• Develop and implement maintenance and reliability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to drive equipment improvements and organizational efficiency.
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance management, and technical personnel.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees