Lead Foundry Operations Engineer - Blades & Vanes

SpaceX; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Bastrop, Texas, seeks a Senior Operations Engineer to own the buildout and ramp-up of a new blades and vanes foundry, delivering complex projects rapidly and at minimum cost. You will design factory layouts, manage multi-discipline teams, and drive data-driven decisions through scheduling, budgeting, and performance metrics.

On-site with potential extended hours. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering and 5+ years in industrial, operations, or construction

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in industrial, operations, or construction engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and own factory and production area layouts that follow lean principles, emphasizing clear visual indicators, linear flow, and operational efficiency.
• Own the full lifecycle of the foundry buildout, ensuring on-time and under-budget delivery of complex projects with minimum time and expense to the business.
• Act as the primary construction project manager and extreme owner for all multi-discipline aspects of the project, both in the field and office.
• Get hands-on and lead by example to ensure projects are completed rapidly.
• Perform project control tasks including detailed scheduling, cost tracking, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Facilitate all required city, county, and governmental approvals and permits.
• Interact daily with contractors, fabricators, engineers, and internal customers while resolving design and construction conflicts in the field in real-time.
• Coordinate with end users, facilities teams, and operations stakeholders for seamless building operations, maintenance, and handover.
• Develop tools and analytics to analyze delivery, capacity, and cost problems, providing clear data-driven guidance for decision making.
• Proactively identify operational challenges, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process simplification, and help implement effective solutions.

Skills

Process engineering

Project management

Capacity modeling

Layout planning

Lean manufacturing

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

Excel

SQL

Python

ERP systems

MRP

Job description

SpaceX in Bastrop, Texas, seeks a Senior Operations Engineer to own the buildout and ramp-up of a new blades and vanes foundry, delivering complex projects rapidly and at minimum cost. You will design factory layouts, manage multi-discipline teams, and drive data-driven decisions through scheduling, budgeting, and performance metrics.

On-site with potential extended hours. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering and 5+ years in industrial, operations, or construction