Reliability Engineer, PCB Maintenance for Space Systems

InvestedintheMission; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Equipment Reliability Engineer for PCB Maintenance (Starlink) to identify and manage asset reliability risks, maximizing uptime and supporting asset design, build, and installation across Starlink facilities. This is a hands-on role in a high‑velocity manufacturing environment.

You will work with project engineering to improve equipment reliability, develop maintenance plans, analyze asset data, and provide technical support to maintenance and production teams to prevent

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, systems, or manufacturing engineering.
• 1+ years of experience in an engineering role in manufacturing, integration, reliability, technical program management, and/or operations.
• Experience with CMMS systems such as Maximo, SAP, Infor.

Responsibilities

• Work with project engineering to ensure the reliability and sustainability of new and modified installations.
• Guide efforts to ensure consistency and maintainability of critical equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
• Own equipment improvement plans for more responsive and developed preventative maintenance strategies, equipment effectiveness, and minimization of production downtime.
• Define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan that includes value-added preventive maintenance tasks, minimization of high-cost low-value repairs, effective utilization of predictive, and other non-destructive testing methodologies.
• Prepare asset documentation package for review of system mechanical design, controls, and software.
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and equipment-specific problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues.
• Work with production to perform analyses of assets including asset utilization rate, overall equipment effectiveness, remaining useful life, operational restrictions, and other parameters that define the operating condition, reliability, and costs of assets.
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance management, and technical personnel.
• Manage production requests for asset improvement, control functions, and data collection.
• Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Industrial automation

Equipment schematics reading

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, systems, or manufacturing engineering

CRE or CMRP certification

Tools

Maximo

SAP

Infor

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Equipment Reliability Engineer for PCB Maintenance (Starlink) to identify and manage asset reliability risks, maximizing uptime and supporting asset design, build, and installation across Starlink facilities. This is a hands-on role in a high‑velocity manufacturing environment.

You will work with project engineering to improve equipment reliability, develop maintenance plans, analyze asset data, and provide technical support to maintenance and production teams to prevent