Principal Water Treatment Engineer, Solar Cell Factory

The role

You will take ownership for activating, qualifying, optimizing, and ensuring the consistency of operations for an ultrapure process water plant. This supports printed circuit board, silicon packaging, and solar cell manufacturing lines.

What you will do

• Demonstrate extreme ownership in the construction, activation, and operation of a new commercial ultrapure process water treatment facility
• Design, implement, and productionize mechanical and fluid systems that meet SpaceX and regulatory requirements
• Interpret lab analysis, data streams, and operator feedback to effectively maintain safe and effective plant operations
• Develop, implement, maintain, and improve operational procedures, methods, and process equipment
• Form strong partnerships with internal and external counterparts
• Identify and champion continuous improvement projects
• Develop project plans, budgets, and cost/benefit analysis for implementation of new processes or machines
• Monitor and communicate area status and risks

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, math, or science discipline
• 10+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment or with fluids/mechanical/electromechanical design and analysis
• Able to work all shifts and available for weekends as needed
• Standing for long periods of time, climbing up and down ladders, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, and stretching may be required
• Able to lift up to 25lbs. unassisted
• Able to work outside with hand tools
• Able to stand, climb, walk and work with object overhead

Nice to have

• 12+ years hands-on project experience in wastewater treatment
• Experience with process parameters and engineering units for temperature, pressure, flow, and power
• Ability to read and understand process PFDs, P&IDs, 2D and 3D CAD drawings, construction drawings, and BOMs
• Experience with mechanical equipment and systems requiring the isolation of the malfunction, disassembly of industrial machinery, and repair/replacement of bearings, gears, structural components
• Experience with lock out tag out, job hazard analysis, and hot work permitting
• Experience applying lean manufacturing principles
• Experience taking products from research and development into production

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from

About the company

SpaceX is developing the technologies to make human life on Mars possible. Starlink is a low-latency, broadband internet system enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites.