Hiring: Industrial & Operations Engineer Company: Zipline Location: South San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:33:46 Target Skills & Keywords : Python, SQL, Systems Design About the job Experience: •3+ years of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, operations engineering, production systems, or a comparable environment. Required Skills: •As an Industrial & Operations Engineer on the Manufacturing Engineering team, you will own factory performance and scaling •Take a factory-level view of production—connecting demand, labor, equipment, space, material flow, process capability, and capital investment into an integrated production system. Your job is to understand how the factory performs today, identify what will constrain us tomorrow, and design the systems required to scale. •This is not a reporting or planning-only role. You will spend time on the production floor observing how work actually happens, use data to identify constraints and opportunities, and then drive changes to layouts, staffing models, processes, buffers, equipment, and operating strategies. •How much can we build? What is preventing us from building more? What will break as demand increases? Where should we add people, equipment, automation, or space? And what should the factory look like at the next order of magnitude of production? •Own factory-level performance, scalability, and production system design, connecting individual manufacturing processes into an efficient end-to-end production system. •Develop and continuously improve factory and line layouts, optimizing workstation design, material presentation, operator movement, equipment placement, and overall material flow. •Lead time studies, cycle-time analysis, labor modeling, and line balancing to establish production standards and improve labor efficiency. •Build and maintain capacity models that translate demand forecasts into requirements for labor, equipment, tooling, shifts, floor space, and capital. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field. •In-depth knowledge of production system design, capacity planning, line balancing, takt time, cycle-time analysis, standard work, and manufacturing flow. •Demonstrated experience performing time studies and translating observations into labor and capacity models. •Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn imperfect production data into clear engineering and business decisions. •Demonstrated capacity to build financial and operational models that support CapEx, automation, make/buy, and factory-scaling decisions. •Strong spreadsheet and data-analysis skills; comfort working with manufacturing data from ERP, MES, labor-tracking, and production systems. •Demonstrated capacity to work directly on the factory floor, understand how production actually operates, and collaborate effectively with technicians, manufacturing engineers, production leaders, quality engineers, supply chain, and design engineering. •Strong communication skills and the ability to convert complex analysis into simple recommendations and executable plans. •A high degree of ownership. You are comfortable identifying an ambiguous factory-level problem, defining what needs to be measured, developing a solution, and driving it through implementation. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!