Staff Industrial Engineer, Maritime Production System Design

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Plant and equipment layouts, material flow paths, and space allocation for a new maritime factory.
• Capacity plans and rate models: units per year under a given configuration, with the sensitivity analysis behind the number.
• Sequencing of operations and work flow: how a build is broken into stations, what runs in parallel, where the unit sits and for how long.
• Discrete-event simulation of the factory and the line, used as the primary way we validate capacity before the building exists.
• Designing and optimizing the production system by integrating design, supply base, facilities, equipment, and personnel.
• Feeding the precedence network that our dynamic scheduling system (LOKI) plans against.
• Technical direction on production system design across VCS and Megalodon build processes: you set the method, others execute it.
• Requirements to our architecture/engineering firm and outside consultants, and review of what comes back.

Job requirements

• 10+ years in production system design, factory design, or manufacturing engineering for large complex products, including at least one program where you owned the capacity or rate commitment.
• Demonstrated capacity or rate modeling: you have built the model, defended the number, and been held to it.
• Comfort with simulation or quantitative modeling (FlexSim, Simio, AnyLogic, Plant Simulation, or Python).
• No degree required. We hire on demonstrated capability. Apprenticeship, Navy Nuclear Power School, military experience, trade background, or self-taught modeling all count.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, operations research, manufacturing engineering, systems engineering, or related technical field.
• Shipyard or aerospace final-assembly experience: stage of construction, module breakdown, pre-outfitting, erection sequence.
• Greenfield or major-expansion factory work.