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Operations Engineer (Starlink Production)

SpaceX· Starlink Prod Bastrop - V4/Ent. Assembly Eng.
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Bastrop, TXfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

SpaceX is seeking an Operations Engineer to design processes and systems for Starlink manufacturing facilities, focusing on high-volume production of user terminals, silicon packaging chips, and solar cells. The role involves factory design, project management, data systems, and cross-functional collaboration to enable scalable production.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Starlink factory design on a physical and digital level, including building requirements, facility resources, and part flow to meet production rate of millions of units/year
  • Ownership of floor layouts, capacity studies, and product flow analysis to ensure on-time product delivery
  • Coordinate and schedule construction activities with internal SpaceX teams and external general/sub-contractors
  • Develop and maintain project schedules and budgets for capital projects, monitoring progress and addressing deviations in real time
  • Define new business processes and systems for high volume production, including manufacturing execution, inventory management, nonconformance resolution, configuration management, material traceability, process control, and maintenance
  • Act as subject matter expert in multiple Starlink production processes and systems, enabling complex data gathering, troubleshooting, and problem solving
  • Implement data acquisition and tracking for production and quality metrics, as well as environmental, testing, and safety controls
  • Assist production/engineering leadership team to identify trends and opportunities for optimizing product output, quality enhancements, and cost of manufacturability
  • Consistently contribute effort, leadership, and creative thinking to solving complex problems in a collaborative fashion and under tight deadlines
  • Collaborate across disciplines including Engineering, Production, Test, Inventory, Quality, Supply Chain, and Customer Experience to ensure efficiency and consistency across the organization

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, software, industrial, or other engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of experience in manufacturing or industrial project management (collegiate extracurricular engineering projects such as lab projects, Formula SAE, Baja SAE, Design Build Fly team, competitions, or internships qualify)

Skills

Required:Factory design and layout planningProject managementData acquisition and metrics trackingCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Manufacturing execution systemsAutoCAD or Revit
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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