Vast Operations Engineer at Vast to design and optimize manufacturing factories for space stations and satellites. Responsible for factory layout, capacity planning, process simplification, and production rate ramping.
Responsibilities
Design and own factory and production area layouts, maintaining up-to-date floor plans and work center configurations with clear visual indicators and linear flow as guiding principles
Lead future-state factory design and capacity planning to meet rate production requirements as the program scales, partnering closely with stakeholders to ensure business objectives are met
Partner with area owners to evaluate layout options and space trades, challenging footprint assumptions and right-sizing work centers through an iterative design process that evolves with the program
Host regular process walks of production lines, questioning workflow to identify what can be deleted, simplified, or standardized, determining root causes of operational challenges, and driving those changes to completion
Drive process standardization across products, assemblies, and work centers to reduce variability and capture best practices and lessons learned to build the operational foundation required for sustainable rate scaling
Develop dashboards and automated reporting tools that turn production and operations data into clear, actionable insights on throughput, capacity, and delivery
Define and track operational metrics that quantify the health of the production system, and use them to drive efficiency improvements
Execute complex projects with urgency, minimizing time and cost to the business — get hands-on, lead by example, and get things done
Qualification
Bachelor's degree in IndustrialExperience as an industrialOperations Engineer IOperations Engineer IISenior Operations Engineer
Required
Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or related engineering discipline
1+ years of professional or internship experience in a manufacturing environment
Preferred
Experience as an industrial, operations, or manufacturing engineer in a fast-paced developmental or early production manufacturing environment, with exposure to ramping from development through rate production
Demonstrated experience in factory layout design, capacity modeling, and process mapping
Proficiency in CAD tools for layout and workspace design (e.g. SketchUp, AutoCAD, or equivalent)
Experience building dashboards or automated reports from production or operations data using tools such as Grafana, Tableau, Excel, SQL, and Python
Experience with production and capacity planning systems such as MRP, ERP, or MES
