Operations Engineer (Starship)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and own factory and production area layouts following the rules of clear visual indicators and linear flow principles
• Conduct job walks with vendors, negotiate prices, and hold vendors to schedule
• Host process walks of production lines, and ask questions to delete or simplify process steps and kick off changes
• Work as part of a team to develop and manage production strategy to mitigate future production risks and seize emerging opportunities to improve quality, output, safety, and cost
• Develop tools to analyze delivery, capacity, and cost problems for production to guide decisions
• Identify operational challenges within the organization, determine root cause, and develop appropriate solutions
• Develop and track key performance measures, and identify decision points and actions to optimize production to meet demand
• Actively develop system and process improvements within and between production elements
• BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• 1+ years of professional or internship experience in a manufacturing environment
• PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
• Process engineering experience including project management, capacity modeling, processing mapping, and layouts
• Experience with inventory, production, and capacity planning (including MRP/ERP systems)
• Experience using Excel, SQL, or Python/R for analysis on modeling dynamic systems
• Proficiency with statistics, data analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and visualization
• Experience as an industrial, operations, process or manufacturing engineer in a developmental manufacturing environment
• Experience with lean, six sigma, and related production principles
• Experience as a contributor to multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams
• ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet major milestones
• This is a hands-on position that will require standing for long durations of the day and directly interacting with other team members and hardware on the floor