Sr. Equipment Reliability Engineer - Automation & Controls (Starship)

Full-time - Mid Level

Starbase, TX

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

As Starship production continues to push new bounds in order to satisfy the growing demands of the space industry, the complex and ever-evolving critical equipment required to build, integrate, and test our products must work harder than ever. Equipment Reliability Engineers hold the keys to the production machine; they not only help identify some of the most risk-heavy SpaceX production assets, but they technically diagnose, advise, implement, and execute a strategic path forward at the equipment-level to promote system reliability, minimize losses, and maximize critical asset efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy a reliability SCADA system for the Starship manufacturing reliability.
• Integrate deployed equipment into SpaceX Internet of Things (IoT) to enable real time performance monitoring, ticket generation, and more.
• Enable setting predictive and condition-based monitoring triggers.
• Drive investigations & own design improvements for all starship manufacturing tooling, with a heavy focus on electrical/automation.
• Lay out new industrial electrical control panels that are NFPA79/NEC/UL508A compliant and create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics.
• Own equipment improvement plans for maintenance strategies and equipment availability to maximize production equipment availability.
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive or high consequence failures on critical equipment through Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Generate aesthetically simple HMI screens for complex machinery while providing sufficient feedback for troubleshooting.
• Conduct Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) to create proactive reliability programs for critical equipment.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to drive process improvements, design iterations and complete equipment overhauls.
• Integrate with internal tooling, automation and production teams to ensure maintainability of design is incorporated into new internally designed equipment.
• Develop and implement maintenance and reliability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to drive equipment improvements and organizational efficiency.
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance management, and technical personnel.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, reliability, or operations.

Nice-to-haves

• Developed understanding of mechanical, fluid, and electrical component functions.
• Experience using Microsoft SQL and PowerBI.
• Ability to read and understand equipment schematics, P&ID, GD&T and OEM manuals.
• Basic understanding of maintenance and reliability KPIs; OEE, MTBF, MTTR.
• Detail oriented, organized, and able to demonstrate a high sense of urgency.
• Process integration and electromechanical/mechatronic systems experience.
• Experience in a variety of robotic weld applications (Kuka, ABB & Fanuc).
• Electrical schematic CAD experience using EPlan.
• PLC programming experience, preferably Siemens TIA Portal & Beckhoff TwinCAT 3.
• HMI and SCADA programming experience.
• Field bus networks, serial communication and Ethernet communication.
• Hands-on experience building and commissioning high quality electrical control panels and electro-mechanical systems.
• Knowledge of NEC, NFPA 79, UL508A codes.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience in fast-paced iterative design and manufacturing environments.
• Experience solving complex problems with little to no supervision, on schedule, as an individual or as a member of an integrated team.

Benefits

• Pay range: $125,000.00 - $175,000.00/per year.
• Long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards.
• Potential discretionary bonuses.
• Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Various other discounts and perks.
• Accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation.
• Eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.