Vast
Operations Engineer
$84K–$149K
Long Beach, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Apr 8, 2026
- Experience
- 1+ years of professional or internship experience in a manufacturing environment; applicants across a range of experience levels are welcome.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or related engineering discipline.
About the job
Designs and optimizes factory layouts, production capacity, workflows, and operational reporting to support scalable manufacturing of space stations and satellites.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain factory and production-area layouts, and lead future-state design and capacity planning.
- Analyze production workflows, identify and implement process simplification and standardization, and track operational metrics.
- Build dashboards and automated reports that provide actionable insights into throughput, capacity, and delivery.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or related engineering discipline.
- 1+ years of professional or internship experience in a manufacturing environment.
Nice to have
- Experience in fast-paced developmental or early-production manufacturing, including scaling from development through rate production; factory layout design, capacity modeling, or process mapping.
- Proficiency with CAD tools (e.g. SketchUp, AutoCAD, or equivalent), reporting tools such as Grafana, Tableau, Excel, SQL, and Python, or MRP, ERP, or MES systems.
Pay
$84,460.00 - $119,892.00 USD base salary; $96,760.00 - $137,352.00 USD base salary; $104,960.00 - $148,992.00 USD base salary; $84,460 — $148,992 USD base salary
Tools
SketchUp, AutoCAD, Grafana, Tableau, Excel, SQL, Python, MRP, ERP, or MES
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