Industrial Engineer, Avionics

Castelion is moving incredibly fast to develop and deliver advanced defense systems at a time when execution matters more than ever. We believe focus, ownership, and excellence are decisive advantages - and we're building a world-class team to turn bold ideas into real capability.

This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage, where you'll have significant ownership, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and make a direct, measurable impact on our mission and the future of the company - regardless of your function.

Castelion is seeking a highly skilled Industrial Engineer to design and scale the manufacturing systems behind our avionics hardware, including PCBAs, wire harnesses, electrical integration, and test. You will own the systems-level view of production: modeling capacity, balancing operations, optimizing material flow...

Model production capacity and takt time across PCBA, harness, electrical integration, and test operations to inform staffing, equipment, and layout decisions • Develop process flows, value stream maps, and factory layouts to optimize material flow and production efficiency • Conduct time studies and line balancing analyses to establish standard work and identify bottlenecks • Partner with design and manufacturing engineering to provide DFM/DFA feedback for production at scale • Develop and maintain OEE, throughput, cycle time, utilization, and yield metrics to drive manufacturing improvements • Perform capacity studies and define labor, equipment, tooling, and floor-space requirements • Develop material flow, kitting, and lineside inventory strategies to reduce non value-added work • Support make/buy and automation decisions using capacity, labor, and cost models • Work cross-functionally with design, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program teams to meet production rate, schedule, and cost objective. 

Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or a related engineering field • 3+ years of experience in a manufacturing or production environment performing capacity, process flow, or production analysis
Preferred Skills and Experience Experience with electronics, avionics, PCBA, wire harness, electromechanical, or aerospace manufacturing • Experience with capacity modeling, line balancing, factory layouts, OEE, takt time, and production planning • Experience scaling manufacturing processes from development into higher-volume production
Castelion offers a generous benefits package. Please refer to the bottom of our Careers page for more details.  
Other Duties 
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. 
Additional Eligibility Requirements 
This position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information, as determined by the Company and/or applicable U.S. Government requirements. If the position is so designated, your employment in the role may be contingent upon your ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. Government security clearance or other government authorization, and to satisfy any citizenship or other eligibility requirements imposed by applicable law, regulation, executive order, or government contract requirements. You will be notified if and when such requirements apply. 
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