Material Flow Engineer
Core
Design factory layouts, work methods, and capacity models to scale drone production reliably.
Role type
Senior IC manufacturing/material flow engineer
Builds
Autonomous drone manufacturing systems and production lines
Domain
Aerospace/Logistics manufacturing
Required skills
Factory layout design, time studies, line balancing, capacity modeling, WIP/queue strategy, bottleneck analysis, operational modeling, data analysis (ERP/MES), financial modeling
Preferred skills
Lean manufacturing, Theory of Constraints, simulation, SQL, Python, value-stream mapping
Technologies
ERP, MES, SQL, Python, BI tools
Responsibilities
Design factory layouts and workstations; define WIP and buffer strategies; lead time studies and labor modeling; build capacity and capital investment scenarios; identify and resolve production bottlenecks; develop factory KPIs and investment cases.
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC
