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Operations Engineer – Starlink
| Company | SpaceX |
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| Location | Redmond, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $95000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or operations/supply chain management discipline
- 1+ years of professional or internship experience in operations/supply chain/materials management or logistics
Responsibilities
- Identify, plan, and execute capital equipment, machine, building/infrastructure, and layout upgrades specifically related to materials management to meet production and site demand
- Manage material flow projects, and execute to tight timelines while effectively communicating with and influencing stakeholders
- Drive improvements to increase inventory, on-time delivery, reliability, and reduce waste
- Anticipate and identify challenges within the satellite material flow and logistics value stream, determine root-cause failures, and develop appropriate solutions
- Develop, standardize, and continuously improve key process indicators and other operations metrics
- Provide detailed analyses, and drive action plans
- Train inventory and receiving specialists, logistics team members, and leaders on best-in-class operations practices by driving process improvement workshops, providing training and information briefs on key topics, and demonstrating solutions
Preferred Qualifications
- 1 year or more of experience with CAD software, SQL, business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI, Grafana), analysis tools (Python/R, Minitab, Excel, etc.), or discrete event modeling tools
- 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 inventory, production, and capacity planning (including MRP/ERP systems)
- Proficient in identifying system enhancement opportunities, understanding end-user requirements, and the ability to translate requirement needs into design requirements
- Experience with Lean, six sigma, and related production principles
- Experience with data analytics
- Strong communication skills and the ability to make presentations to engineering teams, internal customers, and leadership
