At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Location
- Bastrop, TX
About the role
- As a Facilities Engineer at the Starlink Production facility, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of site operations.
- You will be responsible for evaluating and improving soft-services and operational support functions site-wide, including fleet, workplace services, space planning, service contracts, utilities, and critical spares.
Responsibilities
- Optimize site-wide soft-services operations, including fleet, workplace services, and space planning, to improve service levels and cost
- Analyze site-services contracts for cost, performance, and scope; build a roadmap to improve vendor performance
- Own the site plan for infrastructure consumables and critical spares to protect equipment availability and accelerate urgent projects
- Own site-level utility forecasting and help structure contract terms that keep up with rapid facility expansion
- Standardize and integrate the site-wide Building Management System (BMS) and SCADA platforms; use the data to implement predictive and preventative maintenance strategies on critical infrastructure
- Lead departmental continuous-improvement work, including new process rollouts and standardization
- Work across all levels of the business to map current workflows, find gaps, and put durable solutions in place
- Define department-level metrics and dashboards that quantify Facilities operations health, reliability, and efficiency
- Align with maintenance and construction teams at other SpaceX sites to set uniform, high standards
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
- 2+ years of experience in manufacturing, operations, or construction
- Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed, including occasional short-notice domestic travel
- Provide 24/7 on-call support for critical activities and site emergencies
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. unassisted
- Ability to travel occasionally as required to support project needs
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee, Asylee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in manufacturing operations and/or facilities maintenance
- Proficiency in statistics, data analysis, data visualization, and cost-benefit analysis
- Experience with one or more of: CAD, ArcGIS, Archibus, Power BI, Jira, SQL
- Experience using automation or AI tools to improve speed and quality of operational work
- Familiarity with IoT/OT protocols used in building systems (MQTT, OPC UA)
- Experience with industrial PLCs used in building management systems (Schneider Electric, Beckhoff, Siemens)
- Exposure to inventory, production, and capacity planning, including MRP/ERP systems
- Familiarity with manufacturing and reliability metrics (OEE, availability, MTBF, MTTR)
Workplace
- Position is based in Bastrop, Texas (Greater Austin, TX Area)
Skills
- CAD
- ArcGIS
- Archibus
- Power BI
- Jira
- SQL
- MQTT
- OPC UA
- Schneider Electric
- Beckhoff
- Siemens
