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Senior Operations Engineer

Impulse· Manufacturing
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Redondo Beach$140k - $175kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Operations Engineer at Impulse responsible for supporting manufacturing operations to streamline processes, improve data collection, own factory layouts, and support business initiatives in a development-heavy environment with aggressive timelines.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own factory layouts for new and existing facilities, helping bring together competing requirements into a harmonious workflow, while considering material movement, build process flows, lifting and rigging solutions, and facilities requirements
  • Develop data-collection and visualization tools for the manufacturing teams. Define and measure key metrics and KPI’s across the teams to improve efficiency and quality
  • Deploy Lean/5S/Kaizen principles to eliminate waste and streamline workflows
  • Perform time studies, define inefficiencies, suggest and implement improvements
  • Develop and own personnel-development tools such as skills matrices
  • Develop training materials for employees and managers to address safety, tribal knowledge, quality, and productivity
  • Leverage MRP and ERP systems, and enterprise system teams, to make system enhancements
  • Optimize and accelerate existing manufacturing processes
  • Work with production teams to identify key bottlenecks and pain points, and take initiative to address those bottlenecks
  • Support manufacturing capital projects, including new facility activations, automation efforts and new capability development

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, or related field
  • Demonstrate experience in developing and improving manufacturing and operations processes
  • Experience working in a software development environment
  • 5+ years of demonstrated operations experience

Skills

Required:Factory layout designData collection and visualizationLean/5S/KaizenMRP/ERP systems
Nice to have:Time studiesPersonnel development tools

Benefits

  • In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Last updated Jul 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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