# Operations Engineer at VAST

> United States · Unspecified · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Avast%3A4671178006 (read 2026-11-15).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [VAST](https://alderhq.app/companies/vast)
- Location text: Long Beach, California, United States; Long Beach, CA
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Long Beach, California, United States; Long Beach, CA")
- Posted: 2026-04-08 (221 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-15
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 1 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/vast/jobs/4671178006?gh_jid=4671178006

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $84k–$149k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (Los Angeles, n 618): p25 $120k, median $142k, p75 $165k

## Description (the employer's text)

Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich, and capital-efficient approach. Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station to support a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and supporting a growing space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to design, build, and operate its own spacecraft in orbit. Next, Haven-1 is targeted to become the world’s first commercial space station, with launch anticipated in 2027, followed by additional Haven modules. Additionally, the company recently announced two new offerings leveraging its space station components and the heritage of Haven Demo: Vast Satellite, a high-power satellite product line; and Vast Lunar Systems, power, communications, and habitats for the Moon.

Headquartered in Long Beach, California, and with more than 1,000 employees and over a billion dollars in private capital, Vast has built the facilities capable of manufacturing America’s next space station. The company plans to develop future habitats and systems for Mars, dedicated modules for government partners, and other crewed systems designed to unlock the expanding long-term space economy.

Vast is seeking an Operations Engineer, reporting to the Manager, Operations Engineering, to design and optimize current and future manufacturing factories. In this role, you will apply your expertise to creatively design and bring to life the spaces that will build space stations and satellites. The scope of this team spans capacity planning, questioning requirements, first-principles thinking, process simplification, CAD modeling, dashboards and automated reporting, cross-functional leadership, creative problem solving, and ramping production rate.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

### Responsibilities

- Design and own factory and production area layouts, maintaining up-to-date floor plans and work center configurations with clear visual indicators and linear flow as guiding principles
- Lead future-state factory design and capacity planning to meet rate production requirements as the program scales, partnering closely with stakeholders to ensure business objectives are met
- Partner with area owners to evaluate layout options and space trades, challenging footprint assumptions and right-sizing work centers through an iterative design process that evolves with the program
- Host regular process walks of production lines, questioning workflow to identify what can be deleted, simplified, or standardized, determining root causes of operational challenges, and driving those changes to completion
- Drive process standardization across products, assemblies, and work centers to reduce variability and capture best practices and lessons learned to build the operational foundation required for sustainable rate scaling
- Develop dashboards and automated reporting tools that turn production and operations data into clear, actionable insights on throughput, capacity, and delivery
- Define and track operational metrics that quantify the health of the production system, and use them to drive efficiency improvements
- Execute complex projects with urgency, minimizing time and cost to the business — get hands-on, lead by example, and get things done
### Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or related engineering discipline
- 1+ years of professional or internship experience in a manufacturing environment
### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience as an industrial, operations, or manufacturing engineer in a fast-paced developmental or early production manufacturing environment, with exposure to ramping from development through rate production
- Demonstrated experience in factory layout design, capacity modeling, and process mapping
- Proficiency in CAD tools for layout and workspace design (e.g. SketchUp, AutoCAD, or equivalent)

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