Industrial Engineer, Senior

What You'll do:

• Own the industrialization strategy and integrated delivery plan — translating product, demand, and business objectives into rate targets, work packages, owners, milestones, resources, budget needs, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.
• Work with Engineering/D2M and AIT to define build sequence, work breakdown, routings, assembly and test flows, and manufacturing data needs, driving design for manufacture, assembly, test, access, and repeatability.
• Build version-controlled capacity models from execution data, time studies, engineering estimates, and partner data, and balance cells and workflows to the required production rate.
• Develop layouts, workstations, material flow, buffers, WIP policies, cleanroom zoning, and kitting interfaces, comparing fixed-station, cellular, parallel, and flow approaches against product and rate constraints.
• Define and deliver industrial asset work packages for ground support equipment, test assets, utilities, and facility changes, driving procurement, installation, commissioning, and handover.
• Lead the industrialization interface with external partners — agreeing technical deliverables, owners, dates, and acceptance criteria for product data, methods, tooling, training, and test interfaces.
• Lead industrial readiness assessments, closing process, equipment, documentation, training, supply, and infrastructure gaps, and securing production-release decisions through Orbitworks' readiness and change reviews.
• Lead pilots and support ramp-up on the production floor, validating assumptions, resolving constraints, and demonstrating agreed rate, mix, quality, and resource performance.
• Define rate, lead-time, WIP, capacity, labor, quality, and constraint metrics, and drive improvements that produce sustained, system-level results.
• Develop investment and resource options, lead delivery reviews, coach contributors, and establish reusable models, standards, and decision records.

What you'll Need:

• 7–12 years in industrial, manufacturing, or production engineering, with an engineering degree or equivalent demonstrated capability.
• Direct, hands-on experience in satellite assembly, integration, test, or comparable space hardware production, with industrialization responsibility at the system or subsystem level. General aerospace experience alone doesn't meet this requirement.
• A track record of owning an integrated industrialization workstream through deployment, ramp-up, and acceptance, with plans, milestones, resource or investment decisions, recovery actions, and measured outcomes to show for it.
• Strong capacity modeling and line balancing skills — building auditable models of mixed-product demand, process precedence, labor skills, equipment occupancy, calendars, variability, rework, and bottlenecks.
• Production engineering depth: routings, work instructions, tooling, process control, work measurement, layout, material flow, WIP, and producibility, with the ability to translate drawings and test requirements into industrial requirements.
• Experience defining and delivering production or test capability through requirements, procurement, commissioning, acceptance, and operational handover.
• Skill in extracting usable technical inputs from external partners, tracking assumptions and gaps, and following through until the local production solution works.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional work packages, dependencies, risks, and commitments as an individual contributor, without relying on formal line authority. Formal people-management experience is not required.
• Strong spreadsheet and data analysis skills, with models that have traceable sources, units, assumptions, and actual-versus-plan checks.
• Understanding of traceability, controlled baselines, manufacturing/test readiness, and change impact in high-reliability hardware.
• Clear technical English, concise written communication, effective shop-floor engagement, willingness to work onsite in Abu Dhabi, and the ability to travel to partners as needed.

Nice to Have

• Experience ramping a LEO constellation from first units into repeat production.
• Having commissioned a cleanroom, production area, or major test capability, including utilities, safety, and contamination control.
• Experience phasing new products or upgrades into a shared industrial asset while protecting existing delivery commitments.
• Discrete-event simulation and optimization experience for problems beyond spreadsheet capability.
• Practical experience with MES, ERP, PLM, manufacturing BOM, routing, and dashboard tools.
• Ability to build labor, recurring cost, capex, and make-versus-buy scenarios with Finance and Supply Chain.
• Applied Lean or Six Sigma experience in complex production environments, with measured results (certification alone isn't a differentiator).
• Experience assessing supplier process capacity and supporting local supplier capability development.
• A track record of coaching and raising colleagues' capability without relying on formal management authority.