Operations Engineer

There was a time when all of America believed that the future of the physical world could be radically different. The engineers of the mid-1900s put a man on the moon in eight years, designed and built planes and submarines from scratch in under three, and conceived of building things we wouldn’t even be able to dream up today.
Today, the last of the engineers who imagined and built these systems are retiring. As they go, we lose not only the engineering knowledge gained from their decades of imagination and trial-and-error, but also the spirit that made that imagination possible.
Amca is working day-in and day-out to restore America’s ability to engineer anything that our critical systems depend on, and reinvigorate the cycle of creation that allows imagination to shape physical reality. We rapidly develop and manufacture new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. By restoring the capability of our antiquated supply chains, we increase the country’s capacity to imagine and realize new systems, and make a physical world that looks very different from today.
Overview
The Operations Engineer keeps Amca's factories running and growing. You will solve manufacturing problems as they come up, build the processes and systems that let production scale, and manage the suppliers behind them. EH&S is part of the job: you build safety into everything you design and own hazardous material handling on the floor. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who wants to move between the production floor, the ERP and a supplier's shop in the same week.
Responsibilities
Manufacturing Problem Solving
Be the first call when production stalls, whether the cause is a process, a machine, a material, a supplier or a system.
Get to root cause with structured methods (5 Whys, fishbone, FMEA) and put fixes in place that hold, not workarounds.
Track recurring issues, rework and downtime, and close out the patterns behind them.
Processes and Systems
Map workflows, find bottlenecks and failure points, and redesign them to handle more volume and headcount.
Own and improve our internal ERP: fix data errors, broken workflows and missing fields, working with software engineering.
Build what the ERP is missing, starting with EH&S: hazardous material flags, SDS records, supplier certifications and training records, so materials are traceable from purchase to disposal.
Build tools and dashboards (Excel, SQL, Python, Power BI) to analyze capacity, cycle time, cost and output.
Environmental, Health and Safety
Own hazardous material handling end to end: receiving, storage, use, tracking and disposal, with procedures and training the build teams run day to day.
Keep us compliant with OSHA, EPA, NFPA and applicable state and local rules, including RCRA and DOT waste requirements, permits and reporting.
Run hazard assessments, inspections and incident investigations, and keep emergency plans for fires and spills current.
Build role-based EH&S training and track it so records are audit-ready.
Act as a point of contact for regulators, inspectors, insurers and auditors, and bring in outside specialists when deeper expertise is needed.