Manufacturing Engineer: Design & Optimize Scalable Lines

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Fluidstack in Seattle designs and optimizes production lines for modular fabrication. You will design layouts, determine station counts, and set takt rates to meet ramp targets while ensuring safety and efficiency.

Responsibilities include modeling capacity, identifying bottlenecks with data, and iterating as products evolve. Familiarity with discrete-event simulation and lean TPS is a plus; collaboration with operators is essential.

Qualifications

• Designed manufacturing lines or major line extensions.
• Takt and capacity models matched reality within noise.
• Used simulation or rigorous math to find the bottleneck before it found you.
• Designed for the operators: ergonomics, presentation, and flow.
• Defended a layout decision with data and changed it when the data said to.
• Bonus: Discrete event simulation, lean and TPS grounding.

Responsibilities

• Design the production lines: layouts, station counts, and takt math for module fabrication and assembly.
• Model capacity honestly: bottlenecks, buffers, and the real output curve under variation.
• Engineer the ramp plans: how each line gets from first unit to rate, with the constraints named.
• Redesign as the product evolves: new configurations absorbed without rebuilding the factory.

Skills

Manufacturing line design

Line capacity modeling

Simulation modeling

Ergonomics

Data-driven decision making

Lean/TPS

Job description

Fluidstack in Seattle designs and optimizes production lines for modular fabrication. You will design layouts, determine station counts, and set takt rates to meet ramp targets while ensuring safety and efficiency.

Responsibilities include modeling capacity, identifying bottlenecks with data, and iterating as products evolve. Familiarity with discrete-event simulation and lean TPS is a plus; collaboration with operators is essential.