At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Location
- Hawthorne
About the role
- The Hawthorne Starship Machining team machines and delivers critical components for Starship and Super Heavy vehicles.
- Operations engineers own the factory build and expansion, process flow, machine installation, commissioning, and project planning.
Responsibilities
- Design and own factory and production area layouts to increase capacity and capability for machining Starship components.
- Lead the installation and commissioning of new automated CNC machining cells and ancillary production equipment.
- Conduct job walks with vendors, negotiate prices, and manage schedules.
- Execute complex projects with minimal time and expense.
- Lead by example to complete projects rapidly.
- Develop system and process improvements across production teams.
- Develop tools to analyze delivery, capacity, and cost problems.
- Drive safety adherence throughout the factory build-out and design safe production work centers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in physics or an engineering discipline.
- 2+ years of hands-on manufacturing experience.
- Ability to stand for long durations and work directly with hardware on the floor.
- Ability to stoop and bend when necessary.
- Ability to lift/carry up to 25lbs (unassisted) for 1-2 hours per day.
- Ability to travel and work long hours or weekends when necessary.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to conform to U.S. Government export regulations.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience as an industrial, operations, process or manufacturing engineer in a developmental manufacturing environment.
- Experience with installing and commissioning complex machinery and automated manufacturing cells.
- Process engineering experience including project management, capacity modeling, process mapping, and layouts.
- Experience with industrial facilities: HVAC, gases, electrical, structural/foundations.
- 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.
- Experience as a contributor to multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams.
Benefits
- Long-term incentives (company stock or long-term cash awards)
- Discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
Workplace
- Requires ability to travel and work long hours or weekends when necessary.
Skills
- CNC Machining
- Excel
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- Project Management
- Capacity Modeling
- Process Mapping
