Senior Production Systems & Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Production Systems & Manufacturing Engineer Denver, CO or Los Angeles (South Bay), CA | Full-time | Onsite A growth-stage satellite company is designing its first spacecraft factory, and it needs the person who decides how that factory works. This is the most senior manufacturing technical role in the business. You will architect how space vehicles get built at scale: the production strategy, rate plan, factory layout, product and material flow, automation choices and digital factory stack that take the company from low-rate builds to high-rate production. A production manager already runs the floor. This role designs the system they run. Space experience is not required. Cleanrooms, ESD and environmental test can be learned with the team. What can't be taught is knowing how to architect a factory that works at rate. What you'll own Multi-year production roadmap: rate targets, ramp phases, readiness gates and the investment behind each Capacity, takt, cycle time, staffing, WIP and cost-per-unit models that leadership uses to make decisions Factory architecture and layout for a new Denver site, from concept through construction and commissioning Automation strategy, and where manual flexibility beats automation at this rateMES, ERP, PLM and traceability architecture Integrating functional and environmental test into the flow so test never becomes the constraintDFMA influence back into engineering, so products are designed for rate from the start Make/buy and vertical integration calls, with CapEx business cases