Sr. Operations Engineer, Blades and Vanes Foundry

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Space

X continues to revolutionize the launch industry by combining advanced technological developments with pragmatic and lean manufacturing. This is especially important for the future of rapid and high-volume Starship flight, where power generation is crucial. We are seeking a highly driven Senior Operations Engineer to serve as the extreme owner of the construction, buildout, and operational ramp-up of a new blades and vanes foundry.

This role will own delivering complex projects rapidly, at minimum cost, while establishing lean, visually clear, and efficient production flows.

• Design and own factory and production area layouts that follow lean principles, emphasizing clear visual indicators, linear flow, and operational efficiency.
• Own the full lifecycle of the foundry buildout, ensuring on-time and under-budget delivery of complex projects with minimum time and expense to the business.
• Act as the primary construction project manager and extreme owner for all multi-discipline aspects of the project, both in the field and office.
• Get hands-on and lead by example to ensure projects are completed rapidly.
• Perform project control tasks including detailed scheduling, cost tracking, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Facilitate all required city, county, and governmental approvals and permits.
• Interact daily with contractors, fabricators, engineers, and internal customers while resolving design and construction conflicts in the field in real-time.
• Coordinate with end users, facilities teams, and operations stakeholders for seamless building operations, maintenance, and handover.
• Develop tools and analytics to analyze delivery, capacity, and cost problems, providing clear data-driven guidance for decision making.
• Proactively identify operational challenges, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process simplification, and help implement effective solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in industrial, operations, or construction engineering.

• 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.
• Understanding of multiple disciplines such as HVAC, gases, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, piping, geotechnical, and surveying.
• 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.

• Physical effort with lifting and carrying materials or equipment (up to 25 lbs.).
• Possible exposure to work in extreme outdoor environments – heat, cold, rain.
• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed based on site operational needs.
• Occasional travel may be required to support projects at other sites (up to 25%).

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR.

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