Equipment Reliability Engineer (Starship)

The role

Equipment Reliability Engineers identify risk-heavy production assets and execute strategic paths to promote system reliability. They diagnose, advise, and implement improvements to maximize critical asset efficiencies and minimize losses.

What you will do

• Own equipment improvement plans for maintenance strategies and equipment availability
• Define, develop, and refine equipment reliability programs
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive or high consequence failures through Root Cause Analysis
• Conduct Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis to create proactive reliability programs
• Coordinate cross-functionally to drive process improvements, design iterations and complete equipment overhauls
• Integrate with internal tooling, automation and production teams
• Develop and implement maintenance and reliability Key Performance Indicators
• Support onboarding and commissioning of newly purchased or fabricated equipment
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel
• Manage production requests for asset improvements and data collection

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• 1+ years of experience in manufacturing, reliability, or operations
• Stand: Up to 6 hours per day
• Sit: Up to 3 hours per day
• Push/Pull: Up to 50lbs. (unassisted) 1 to 2 hours per day
• Overhead reach: Up to 1 hour per day
• Walk: Up to 3 hours per day
• Lift/Carry: Up to 25lbs. (unassisted) 1 to 2 hours per day
• Climb (ladder/stairs): up to 3 hours per day
• Kneel/Crouch: up to 3 hours per day
• Upper body twist: Up to 3 hours per day
• Ability to work in temperatures over 80 degrees: up to 3 hours per day

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience in a maintenance engineering role and reliability in a high-volume manufacturing, testing or operational environment
• Hands-on experience with equipment control systems, machinery, tooling and industrial automation
• 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
• Familiarity with aerospace manufacturing and test equipment; CNC, SMT, 3D printing, robotics, tooling, furnaces, chillers, etc.
• Experience working with CMMS programs such as Maximo, SAP, Infor
• Basic understanding of maintenance and reliability KPIs; OEE, MTBF, MTTR
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Detail oriented, organized, and able to demonstrate a high sense of urgency

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
• May be required to complete a pre-employment questionnaire and/or physical to confirm capabilities, which may include a medical history review

About the company

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. The company is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars.