Equipment Reliability Engineer, Automation & Controls - Cranes (Starship)

EQUIPMENT RELIABILITY ENGINEER , AUTOMATION & CONTROLS (STARSHIP)

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 to:
• 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 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

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

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 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