Manufacturing Engineer (Starship Components Operations)
About The Position
The Starship Components Operations Build team owns the factory design and material flow to enable manufacturing, machining, and testing of flow control devices and mechanisms that drive critical capabilities on Starship/Super Heavy - from regulators and butterfly valves to flap/fin actuators. The Components Operations Engineering team builds the machine that makes the machine, in this case the factory that builds the components listed above. Factory build and expansion, process flow, machine moves, and project planning all fall under the scope of this team. Ops engineers have an eye for detail and simplicity and make that become reality on the factory floor. If you like strategic planning, juggling many different priorities, improving part flow, and spending most of your time away from your desk, a role on the operations engineering team may be for you!
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in physics or an engineering discipline
- 1+ years of mechanical design/hands-on manufacturing experience (internships and project teams qualify)
Nice To Haves
- Process engineering experience including project management, capacity modeling, process mapping, and layouts
- Experience with inventory, production, and capacity planning (including MRP/ERP systems)
- Experience as an industrial, operations, process or manufacturing engineer in a developmental manufacturing environment
- Experience with industrial facilities: HVAC, gases, electrical, structural/foundations, etc.
- 1+ years of experience in using Excel, SQL, or Python/R for analysis or modeling dynamic systems
- Experience with lean, six sigma, and related production principles
- Ability to work well across teams and skill sets to find the simplest and best solution
- Experience as a contributor to multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams
Responsibilities
- Design and own factory and production area layouts following the rules of clear visual indicators and linear flow
- Conduct job walks with vendors, negotiate prices and hold vendors to schedule
- Host process walks of production lines, and ask questions to determine what process steps can be deleted or simplified and help kick off the changes
- Execute on complex projects in the minimum amount of time and expense to the business
- Get hands-on, lead by example to get projects completed rapidly
- Actively develop system and process improvements between production teams
- Develop tools to analyze delivery, capacity, cost problems for production to guide decisions
Benefits
- company stock or long-term cash awards
- discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- short and long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- paid parental leave
- various other discounts and perks
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- paid sick leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
