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Machine Maintenance Engineer, Tool & Die

SpaceX· Materials Engineering - Starlink Mfg - BA
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Maintenance engineer responsible for end-to-end equipment improvement and reliability in the Bastrop Tool and Die shop, focusing on maximizing CNC/EDM/grinder and related equipment availability to support die build throughput for in-house high-volume production.

Responsibilities

  • Lead maintenance technicians to troubleshoot and resolve technically complex machine-tool failures
  • Perform root cause analysis and action corrective measures to address equipment, process, and behavioral gaps
  • Develop and execute complex improvement projects to maximize machine availability in the Tool and Die shop
  • Collaborate with tooling engineering, manufacturing engineering, and automation and controls to build reliability and maintenance access into new equipment and machine upgrades up front, and propose design adjustments
  • Provide leadership for utilization of computerized maintenance management systems
  • Implement predictive tools (vibration analysis, spindle and axis monitoring, cycle monitoring) and fold them into a proactive reliability-centered maintenance program for shop equipment
  • Complete hands-on in-depth repairs of mechanical, electrical, fluid, pneumatic, and control-system failures on CNC, EDM, and other shop equipment
  • Coordinate internal and third-party resources to scope and execute repairs, overhauls, and equipment upgrade projects
  • Leverage feedback from maintenance technicians to drive improvements to work instructions and processes
  • Coordinate with internal equipment reliability, tooling engineering, and automation and controls teams to design and implement machine upgrades
  • Create, modify, and update preventative maintenance instructions to eliminate recurring failures or low-value tasks
  • Interface with engineering, quality, production, and procurement to resolve hold factors that keep a machine or a die job blocked
  • Build optimized machine spare-parts lists, min/max levels, inventory, and parts criticality analysis for Tool and Die capital equipment
  • Attend new equipment design reviews to provide maintenance and reliability feedback and support initial preventative-maintenance and bill-of-materials build-out

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ year of hands-on experience in a manufacturing environment (internships and project work are applicable)

Skills

Required:Troubleshooting and fault diagnosisPredictive maintenance implementation
Nice to have:Project management of maintenance/improvement projects
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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