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Equipment Reliability Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Production Maintenance
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Equipment Reliability Engineer responsible for developing and implementing equipment reliability programs, RCA/FMECA, predictive/condition-based monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration to maximize production equipment availability for Starship manufacturing and testing.

Responsibilities

  • Own equipment improvement plans for maintenance strategies and equipment availability to maximize production equipment availability
  • Define, develop, and refine equipment reliability programs that include: Preventive maintenance tasks performed by machine operators and experienced maintenance technicians; Comprehensive BOM development and selection of critical spare parts; Integration of existing equipment into SpaceX Internet of Things (IoT) to enable real time performance monitoring; Design and integration of new sensors onto machines to set predictive and condition-based monitoring triggers; Iterative design improvements
  • Develop engineering solutions to repetitive or high consequence failures on critical equipment through Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • Conduct Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) to create proactive reliability programs for critical equipment
  • Coordinate cross-functionally to drive process improvements, design iterations and complete equipment overhauls
  • Integrate with internal tooling, automation and production teams to ensure maintainability of design is incorporated into new internally designed equipment
  • Develop and implement maintenance and reliability KPIs to drive equipment improvements and organizational efficiency
  • Support onboarding and commissioning of newly purchased or fabricated equipment; release reliability programs prior to equipment entering production
  • Provide technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel
  • Manage production requests for asset improvements and data collection

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of experience in manufacturing, reliability, or operations

Skills

Required:Equipment reliability program developmentRoot Cause Analysis (RCA)FMECACross-functional coordination
Nice to have:KPIs for maintenance & reliabilitySQL and PowerBIReading schematics, P&ID, GD&TCMMS (Maximo, SAP, Infor)

Benefits

  • Note: Benefits are not explicitly listed in the provided description.
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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