Production Engineer jobs in Austin, TX

The Boring Company was founded to solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic by creating an underground network of tunnels. Today, we are creating the technology to increase tunneling speed and decrease costs by a factor of 10 or more with the ultimate goal of making Hyperloop adoption viable and enabling rapid transit across densely populated regions.

• Implement an inventory management system to ensure the parts are never lost and don’t block production.
• Create material flow system to efficiently transfer material, parts and kits through production.
• Maintain master production schedule and release work orders to ensure timelines are met.
• Study part drawings to identify the optimal manufacturing method for each component before entering production.  Estimate/track machine time for parts to improve resolution of schedule.
• Understand capabilities of each machine in the shop, provide feedback to design engineers to make parts faster, cheaper, and of higher-quality.
• Perform capacity analysis of the various shops, and make recommendations to increase production rate and implement improvements.
• Identify integration bottlenecks and implement process improvements to increase rate.
• Study supply chain and make recommendations for strategic in-sourcing.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, mechatronics, or manufacturing engineering.
• 2 years of experience in an automotive, aerospace, or industrial manufacturing environment.

• Machine shop skills (experience with CNC, multi-axis milling, turning machines etc)
• Experience supporting a production machine shop
• Design of hydraulic/pneumatic fixtures for unattended production processes
• Lean manufacturing training or experience
• CAD experience (NX & Teamcenter a plus)
• Experience with capacity modeling, process mapping and fault analysis
• Root cause analysis and corrective action experience
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) experience

• Position may require extended hours and weekend work.
• Willing to travel to job sites as required to commission & develop new designs, as well as troubleshoot and problem solve existing designs.

Culture

We're a team of dedicated, smart, and scrappy people. Our employees are passionate about our mission and determined to innovate at every opportunity.

Benefits

We offer employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, paid holidays, paid vacation, and a competitive amount of equity for all permanent employees.

The Boring Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with The Boring Company is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.