Operations Engineer, Starlink Satellites

Starlink, our revolutionary satellite constellation, will deliver low-latency broadband internet worldwide. As an Operations Engineer within the Starlink Satellite Production team, you will drive improvement projects to ensure that safety, reliability, and process capability goals are achieved, maintained, and improved.  You will be a vital part of the relationship between our development, supply chain, and production teams.  You will drive the design and development of new and existing processes and infrastructure to enable our current and future generation vehicles.

• →Identify, plan, and execute capital equipment, machine, building/infrastructure, and layout upgrades to meet production, materials management, and site demand.
• →Manage projects and execute to tight timelines while effectively communicating to and influencing stakeholders.
• →Drive improvements to increase production throughput, reduce manufacturing build hours and quality issues, and remove waste from complex processes.
• →Anticipate and identify challenges within the satellite manufacturing and procurement value stream, determine root cause, and develop appropriate solutions.
• →Develop, standardize, and continuously improve key process indicators and other operations metrics. Provide detailed analyses, and drive action plans.
• →Train technicians, engineers, and leaders on best-in-class operations practices by driving process improvement workshops; providing training and information briefs on key topics; and demonstrating solutions in the area.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• Experience with CAD software, SQL, business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI, Grafana), or analysis tools (Python/R, Arena, Minitab, etc.)

• Experience as an industrial, operations, quality, process, or manufacturing engineer in a manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency with statistics, data analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and visualization.
• Experience with CAD software, Power BI, and discrete event modeling tools.
• Experience with inventory, production, and capacity planning (including MRP/ERP systems).
• Proficient in identifying system enhancement opportunities, understanding end user requirements, and the ability to translate requirements needs into design requirements.
• Experience as a contributor to multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with gathering and using data to drive systemic improvements.
• Experience reviewing data and checking for accuracy/errors in a dataset based on process and system knowledge.
• Experience working in a highly demanding and fast paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to make presentations to engineering, team members, internal customers and management.

• Willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

• 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 here.  

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