TAR
Construction Process Optimization Engineer
Austin · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in process or industrial engineering, construction execution, or capital projects.
About the job
Owns and improves field installation productivity for TAR’s solar and storage campuses, using measurement, experiments, logistics improvements, and standard work to help crews build faster with less rework.
What you'll do
- Measure installation productivity, identify bottlenecks, and run field experiments to improve crew methods and sequencing.
- Build material logistics and QA/QC processes, and codify successful methods into playbooks and crew training.
- Share constructability findings with engineering and procurement; partner with robotics teams on field automation.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in process or industrial engineering, construction execution, or capital projects, including substantial field time.
- Hands-on construction project experience on the EPC side, the owner's side, or in construction-focused consulting.
- Experience with time studies, takt and line-of-balance, lean methods, work sampling, and bottleneck analysis; Excel required.
- Comfort spending extended stretches at a remote West Texas site.
Nice to have
- Utility-scale solar or BESS construction experience.
- Experience with construction robotics, survey automation, or GPS/RTK layout tools.
Pay
Up to $15K relocation bonus; $1K monthly stipend for meals
Tools
Excel, Python, SQL
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