Industrial Engineer

Vast is seeking an Industrial Engineer, reporting to the Manager, Industrial Engineering, to design and optimize current and future manufacturing facilities. In this role, you will apply your expertise to creatively design and bring to life the spaces that will build space stations and satellites. The scope of this team spans capacity planning, questioning requirements, first-principles thinking, process simplification, CAD modeling, cross-functional leadership, creative problem solving, and schedule accountability.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

Design and own factory and production area layouts, maintaining up-to-date floor plans and work center configurations with clear visual indicators and linear flow as guiding principles

Lead future-state factory design and capacity planning to meet rate production requirements as the program scales, partnering closely with the Program Operations Engineering team to ensure business objectives are met

Partner with production and operations teams to evaluate layout options and space trades, challenging footprint assumptions and right-sizing work centers through an iterative design process that evolves with the program

Host regular process walks of production lines, questioning every step to identify what can be deleted, simplified, or standardized, and drive those changes to completion

Lead structured continuous improvement programs using Lean, Six Sigma, and value stream methodologies, conducting time and motion studies (MOST, Yamazumi) to identify bottlenecks and implement scalable solutions that measurably improve throughput and reduce cycle time

Drive process standardization across products, assemblies, and work centers to reduce variability and build the operational foundation required for sustainable rate scaling

Develop tools and analyses to diagnose delivery, capacity, and cost problems, translating production data into clear, actionable decisions for manufacturing and operations leadership

Execute complex projects with urgency, minimizing time and cost to the business — get hands-on, lead by example, and get things done

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or related engineering discipline

1+ years of professional or internship experience in a manufacturing environment

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience as an industrial, operations, or manufacturing engineer in a high-pace developmental or early production manufacturing environment, with exposure to ramping from development through rate production

Demonstrated experience in factory layout design, capacity modeling, and process mapping

Proficiency in CAD tools for layout and workspace design (e.g. SketchUp, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or equivalent)

Pay Ranges:

Industrial Engineer I: $84,460.00 - $119,892.00

Industrial Engineer II: $96,760.00 - $137,352.00

Senior Industrial Engineer: $104,960.00 - $148,992.00

Pay Range: California

$84,460—$148,992 USD