- Salary
- $140k – $175k/yr
- Location
- Redondo Beach
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
Senior Operations Engineer
Department: Manufacturing
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Redondo Beach
Compensation: $140,000 - $175,000 / year
Description
As a Senior Operations Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for supporting manufacturing operations to streamline processes, improve data collection, own factory layouts, and support business initiatives. This is a technical role in a development-heavy environment, requiring execution on aggressive timelines and rapid iterations.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own factory layouts for new and existing facilities, helping bring together competing requirements into a harmonious workflow, while considering material movement, build process flows, lifting and rigging solutions, and facilities requirements
- Develop data-collection and visualization tools for the manufacturing teams. Define and measure key metrics and KPI’s across the teams to improve efficiency and quality
- Deploy Lean/5S/Kaizen principles to eliminate waste and streamline workflows
- Perform time studies, define inefficiencies, suggest and implement improvements
- Develop and own personnel-development tools such as skills matrices
- Develop training materials for employees and managers to address safety, tribal knowledge, quality, and productivity
- Leverage MRP and ERP systems, and enterprise system teams, to make system enhancements
- Optimize and accelerate existing manufacturing processes
- Work with production teams to identify key bottlenecks and pain points, and take initiative to address those bottlenecks
- Support manufacturing capital projects, including new facility activations, automation efforts and new capability development
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, or related field
- Demonstrate experience in developing and improving manufacturing and operations processes
- Experience working in a software development environment
- 5+ years of demonstrated operations experience
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Masters' degree in an engineering discipline
- 10+ years' of demonstrated operations experience within aerospace or related industry working with metallics structures
- Previous experience working within a start-up
- 7+ years' of demonstrated experience with manufacturing automation (welding, machining, etc.)
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Skills
ERP