Construction Process Optimization Engineer

About the role

Responsibilities

• Run structured time-and-motion studies across every major installation activity (piles, racking, module install, DC collection, BESS placement) and build TAR's productivity baseline: cycle times, crew-hours per activity, and MW per week.
• Identify the true bottlenecks and quantify what each one costs in schedule and dollars, so the team acts on the constraints that matter.
• Design and run field experiments on crew size, sequencing, staging, and method, then measure results and standardize the winners into repeatable work.
• Solve the recurring physical problems (panel laydown, material handling, work-front congestion) with methods that hold up at scale, not one-off fixes.
• Build the material logistics system from scratch: delivery cadence, laydown plans, kitting, and staging distances, so crews are never waiting on material at the work front.
• Stand up the QA/QC process around installation that catches issues before they turn into rework.
• Codify everything into standard work (playbooks, productivity targets, training material) and train EPC crews on TAR-specific methods, including robot-assisted survey and layout, partnering with our robotics team as more automation reaches the field.
• Feed constructability findings back into engineering and procurement so the next campus is designed to build faster than the first.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in process or industrial engineering, construction execution, or capital projects, with substantial time in the field rather than behind a desk.
• Hands-on construction project experience on the EPC side, the owner's side, or in construction-focused consulting, with a feel for how field work actually flows and what makes an improvement stick and repeat at scale.
• A measurement-first toolkit: time studies, takt and line-of-balance, lean methods, work sampling, and bottleneck analysis, plus the data skills to back it up (Excel required; Python or SQL a plus).
• Comfort spending extended stretches at a remote West Texas site and the temperament to earn credibility with field crews.
• A builder's bias: you would rather run the experiment this week than write the memo about it.

Nice to have

Salary and Benefits

• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• $1K monthly stipend for meals