Job Description

About Joliet

American influence depends on sea power and the industrial base to support it, a base that has become  dangerously anemic  in the face of global competition.

Joliet’s mission is to build highly automated factories to produce ships for commercial & defense customers 5x faster and at globally competitive prices.

Our 3 areas of focus are:

1. Reinventing the shipbuilding process  with modular designs & highly automated production lines.
2. Accelerating the shift to  sustainable transport.
3. Achieving  full autonomy to relieve critical labor shortages.

We will rethink the process of building ships in America starting from first principles.

As SpaceX is to aerospace, Joliet will be to maritime.

About the role

As Joliet’s first Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for designing “the machine that builds the machine” - ushering in a new era of automated shipbuilding and borrowing lessons from the automotive/aerospace industry.

We will work with cross-functional teams throughout the entire lifecycle of a product (from design through prototype development and into full production). Our goal is to develop high quality and efficient manufacturing equipment and processes that will produce ships of all shapes and sizes, eventually spanning from 100ft - 500ft+ in length.

As an early member of an exciting startup team, you’ll have an opportunity to shape the future of global shipbuilding and re-establish American leadership in maritime.

Prior experience with shipbuilding is not required, though nice to have. Strong alignment with our mission, however, is mandatory.

What you’ll do

• Develop manufacturing equipment and processes from pilot prototypes to full scale ramp
• Determine and procure equipment necessary for all manufacturing processes used to build products
• Develop new manufacturing processes
• Work with equipment integrators to design and manufacture equipment and fixtures for medium to high-volume production
• Manage suppliers during specification, design, buyoff and installation of manufacturing equipment
• Characterize and validate new equipment and fixtures for introduction to the production floor
• Determine layout of production workstations for product flow, ergonomics, and efficiency
• Perform process analysis, DOE, PFMEA, line balancing activities, and capacity modeling/simulation
• Create detailed manufacturing instructions to train technicians and line operators on new processes and equipment

About You

• Experience as a hands-on Mechanical/Manufacturing/Design Engineer working on mechanical and/or electromechanical systems
• Experience or familiarity with advanced manufacturing techniques at Tesla, SpaceX, or similar is strongly preferred
• Experience using 2D cad tools for conceptual line design (AutoCAD) and 3D design for mechanical equipment, fixturing, and tooling (SolidWorks or CATIA)
• Experience with conveyance, robotic systems, machine vision, GMAW/laser welding and automated functional testing
• Experience creating technical specifications for automated manufacturing equipment 
• Experience providing Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Automation (DFA) n
• Degree in mechanical, manufacturing, aerospace, or industrial engineering. Master’s degree preferred.
• High degree of comfort with ambiguity, with entrepreneurial experience highly desirable.

$104,400 - $178,200/annual salary + 0.2-0.5% equity

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