Shipyard Industrial Engineer

Saronic · Defense · Austin, TX · Port Alpha

This role is for an Industrial Engineer focused on designing and validating the physical manufacturing system of a shipyard. Responsibilities include developing building layouts, process flow paths, square footage requirements, and capacity models, with an emphasis on supporting automation-first processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop end-to-end shipyard layouts based on throughput, product mix, and block construction strategy
  2. Define building footprints, clear heights, bay sizing, and crane coverage
  3. Establish square footage requirements for panel fabrication, sub-assembly, block assembly, and pre-outfitting
  4. Develop capacity and throughput models
  5. Ensure layouts support automation-first processes

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, or similar
  • 5+ years of experience in industrial facility layout or manufacturing system design
  • Strong understanding of material flow optimization and bottleneck analysis

Nice to have

  • Heavy manufacturing experience
  • Greenfield facility design exposure
  • Experience in 3D Facility modeling
  • Familiarity with automation-enabled production systems
  • Experience working closely with both design teams and shop-floor operations

What the JD emphasized

  • automation-first processes