Equipment Reliability Engineer (Starlink)
SpaceX· Starlink Production Bastrop - Facilities
Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Equipment Reliability Engineer at SpaceX Starlink responsible for identifying and managing asset reliability risks to maximize asset and system uptime, supporting design, build, and installation of new/modified assets, and providing technical support to maintenance and production.
Responsibilities
- Work with project engineering to ensure the reliability and sustainability of new and modified installations
- Guide efforts to ensure consistency and maintainability of critical equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems
- Own equipment improvement plans for more responsive and developed preventative maintenance strategies, equipment effectiveness, and minimization of production downtime
- Define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan that includes value-added preventive maintenance tasks, minimization of high-cost low-value repairs, effective utilization of predictive, and other non-destructive testing methodologies
- Prepare asset documentation package for review of system mechanical design, controls, and software
- Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and equipment-specific problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues
- Work with production to perform analyses of assets including asset utilization rate, overall equipment effectiveness, remaining useful life, operational restrictions, and other parameters that define the operating condition, reliability, and costs of assets
- Provide technical support to production, maintenance management, and technical personnel
- Manage production requests for asset improvement, control functions, and data collection
- Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, systems, or manufacturing engineering
- 1+ years of experience in an engineering role in manufacturing, integration, reliability, technical program management, and/or operations
Skills
Required:Asset reliabilityPreventive maintenance
Nice to have:CMMS (Maximo, SAP, Infor, etc.)Schematics and OEM manualsReliability analysis toolsCRE/CMRP certification
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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