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Operations Engineer, Starbase Infrastructure

SpaceX· Civil Engineering - Starbase
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Standardizes and improves the work-management system across Starbase infrastructure shops (power, HVAC, facilities, fluids, gas, water/wastewater) to operate as a cohesive system. Owns commissioning readiness, work orders, closeouts, and process improvements aligned with SpaceX site standards.

Responsibilities

  • Standardize how work is requested, planned, executed, and closed across all infrastructure shops. One WO / PM / estimate / closeout standard, with documented exceptions where a system requires them
  • Adopt company and site standards (Warp, Foundation, LOTO, MOC, commissioning turnover) and pull in processes from other SpaceX plants where they fit
  • Choose the fix: software / AI / data, a physical or tooling change, or a personnel skill and behavior standard; specify the lever and rationale
  • Define and improve the work-management system: Warp / Foundation work orders, PM and PdM backlog, kitting, as-found / as-left closeout, critical spares
  • Give shops visibility they can staff against: time estimates vs actuals, remaining hours, and which jobs are blocking a customer
  • Own commissioning and operational-readiness for new or modified systems: punch lists, first PMs, mBOM / spare setup, procedures, and trained turnover to operations
  • Translate design packages into isolation plans, LOTO, work instructions, and floor-ready hold points
  • Stand up asset identity for equipment and link it to PMs and WOs
  • Put numbers on the shops: availability, PM compliance, WO aging, estimate accuracy, contractor vs in-house mix; brief supervisors and site leadership
  • Write the procedures the shops actually use and teach leads and technicians the standard; success is when the shop runs it without you (including unique cases)

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of professional experience in industrial plant, central plant, utilities, facilities, power generation, process operations, or maintenance engineering

Skills

Required:Work management systems
Nice to have:P&IDs / electrical one-lines / OEM manualsCommissioning / operational readinessLOTO / MOC / confined space / energized systemsSQL / Power BI / scripting / AIContractor/vendor oversight
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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