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# Industrial Engineer, Senior at Loft Orbital Solutions

- **Company:** Loft Orbital Solutions
- **Location:** Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/5ce56c55-3f93-456a-b2ff-5f32ea68cdca

## Job description

## About the Role

Orbitworks is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to lead the industrialization of our satellite products and build the production capability needed to deliver them at scale. Based at our KEZAD facility in Abu Dhabi and reporting to the SVP of Operations, you'll connect product design, assembly and test methods, infrastructure, equipment, workforce capability, and material availability into a working industrial solution for a medium-mix, medium-to-low-volume production environment.

You'll own the industrialization workstream end-to-end — from product assessment and partner transfer through new product introduction (NPI), deployment, production readiness, ramp-up, and handover — while personally developing capacity models and industrial solutions and working hands-on on the production floor. This is a strategic, hands-on individual-contributor role: you'll need strong technical judgment, the ability to influence without formal authority, and the persistence to see implementation through. As the business grows, scope can expand into broader portfolio ownership, technical leadership, and building out an industrialization team.

What You'll do:

- Own the industrialization strategy and integrated delivery plan — translating product, demand, and business objectives into rate targets, work packages, owners, milestones, resources, budget needs, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.
- Work with Engineering/D2M and AIT to define build sequence, work breakdown, routings, assembly and test flows, and manufacturing data needs, driving design for manufacture, assembly, test, access, and repeatability.
- Build version-controlled capacity models from execution data, time studies, engineering estimates, and partner data, and balance cells and workflows to the required production rate.
- Develop layouts, workstations, material flow, buffers, WIP policies, cleanroom zoning, and kitting interfaces, comparing fixed-station, cellular, parallel, and flow approaches against product and rate constraints.
- Define and deliver industrial asset work packages for ground support equipment, test assets, utilities, and facility changes, driving procurement, installation, commissioning, and handover.
- Lead the industrialization interface with external partners — agreeing technical deliverables, owners, dates, and acceptance criteria for product data, methods, tooling, training, and test interfaces.
- Lead industrial readiness assessments, closing process, equipment, documentation, training, supply, and infrastructure gaps, and securing production-release decisions through Orbitworks' readiness and change reviews.
- Lead pilots and support ramp-up on the production floor, validating assumptions, resolving constraints, and demonstrating agreed rate, mix, quality, and resource performance.
- Define rate, lead-time, WIP, capacity, labor, quality, and constraint metrics, and drive improvements that produce sustained, system-level results.
- Develop investment and resource options, lead delivery reviews, coach contributors, and establish reusable models, standards, and decision records.

What you'll Need:

- 7–12 years in industrial, manufacturing, or production engineering, with an engineering degree or equivalent demonstrated capability.
- Direct, hands-on experience in satellite assembly, integration, test, or comparable space hardware production, with industrialization responsibility at the system or subsystem level. General aerospace experience alone doesn't meet this requirement.
- A track record of owning an integrated industrialization workstream through deployment, ramp-up, and acceptance, with plans, milestones, resource or investment decisions, recovery actions, and measured outcomes to show for it.
- Strong capacity modeling and line balancing skills — building auditable models of mixed-product demand, process precedence, labor skills, equipment occupancy, calendars, variability, rework, and bottlenecks.
- Production engineering depth: routings, work instructions, tooling, process control, work measurement, layout, material flow, WIP, and producibility, with the ability to translate drawings and test requirements into industrial requirements.
- Experience defining and delivering production or test capability through requirements, procurement, commissioning, acceptance, and operational handover.
- Skill in extracting usable technical inputs from external partners, tracking assumptions and gaps, and following through until the local production solution works.
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional work packages, dependencies, risks, and commitments as an individual contributor, without relying on formal line authority. Formal people-management experience is not required.
- Strong spreadsheet and data analysis skills, with models that have traceable sources, units, assumptions, and actual-versus-plan checks.
- Understanding of traceability, controlled baselines, manufacturing/test readiness, and change impact in high-reliability hardware.
- Clear technical English, concise written communication, effective shop-floor engagement, willingness to work onsite in Abu Dhabi, and the ability to travel to partners as needed.

## Nice to Have

- Experience ramping a LEO constellation from first units into repeat production.
- Having commissioned a cleanroom, production area, or major test capability, including utilities, safety, and contamination control.
- Experience phasing new products or upgrades into a shared industrial asset while protecting existing delivery commitments.
- Discrete-event simulation and optimization experience for problems beyond spreadsheet capability.
- Practical experience with MES, ERP, PLM, manufacturing BOM, routing, and dashboard tools.
- Ability to build labor, recurring cost, capex, and make-versus-buy scenarios with Finance and Supply Chain.
- Applied Lean or Six Sigma experience in complex production environments, with measured results (certification alone isn't a differentiator).
- Experience assessing supplier process capacity and supporting local supplier capability development.
- A track record of coaching and raising colleagues' capability without relying on formal management authority.

Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbital's heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.

## About Loft Orbital Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Loft Orbital is a space infrastructure company that provides simple, fast, and reliable ways for customers to deploy and operate physical payloads and software missions in low Earth orbit.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C – $170M round announced, total funding $326.9M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with additional offices in Golden, Colorado and Toulouse, France)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not listed in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing
- **Target Customers**: B2B – commercial space startups, established aerospace and defense primes, cloud and AI companies, and government agencies worldwide (including U..S, France, Canada)
- **Mission/Purpose**: “Space Made Simple” – enabling customers to focus on their mission while Loft handles end-to-end space infrastructure

## Products & Services
- **Physical Payload Missions**: Loft integrates, tests, launches, and operates customer hardware payloads on its standardized satellite platforms (e.g.., optical, hyperspectral, RF sensors).
- **Virtual / Software-Only Missions**: Customers can deploy software directly to Loft’s on-orbit satellites to process and analyze data in near-real time (e..g., AI edge processing via partners like SkyServe, SSCI).
- **YAM (Yet Another Mission)** satellites: A fleet of multi-mission satellite buses available for rapid deployment; Loft maintains an inventory of pre-assembled platforms.
- **Hub & Cockpit**: Proprietary hardware and software abstraction layers that simplify payload integration and satellite operations.
- **Loft Federal**: A FOCI-mitigated division focused on US national security space missions (only US citizens).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (total funding $326..9M – LinkedIn)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $326..9M (8 rounds incl. $170M Series C); Annual Revenue estimated $27..8M (LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead seed investor Uncork Capital; partners include Honeywell (Canadian Space Agency mission), Wyvern (Dragonette constellation), Esper, Helsing, SmartSat CRC, EarthDaily ($150M constellation), SkyServe, SSCI, Airbus OneWeb Satellites (15 bus order).
- **Growth Signals**: 270 employees (+14.9% YoY), 41k+ LinkedIn followers (+41.4% YoY), 14 satellites launched, 60+ customers, 15+ AI missions on-orbit, selected as prime contractor for France’s first space-based radar imaging program.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Standardized Satellite Platform**: Uses a commodity satellite bus with custom hardware/software layers, eliminating non-recurring engineering and enabling “turnkey” plug-and-play.
- **Speed to Orbit**: Maintains an inventory of pre-assembled buses and pre-booked launches, drastically reducing lead times compared to traditional aerospace.
- **Flight Heritage**: Over 600 copies of the bus in orbit today, providing proven reliability
- **Misson Agnosticism**: Can fly any payload that fits within standard platform constraints; supports both physical and virtual missions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand AI Edge Computing**: Deploying onboard AI processing (e..g., STORM from SkyServe, POET experiment for SDA) to enable near-real-time decision making.
- **National Security Growth**: Loft Federal continues to win US government contracts.
- **Constellation Scale-Up**: Partnering with EarthDaily for $150M satellite constellation; ordering 15 additional buses from Airbus OneWeb.
- **International Partnerships**: Strengthening ties with France (prime contractor for radar imaging) and Canada (SmartSat CRC, Honeywell).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, respectful, professional environment described as “non-negotiable.” Rated 4..5/5 on LinkedIn (35 reviews) with Culture 4.5, Compensation 4.1, Work-Life 3.6, Career 4.2.
- **Wor Environment**: Distributed team with core hubs in San Francisco, Golden (CO), and Toulouse. Supports remote collaboration but roles may require on-site presence (per job listings). Recruiting process involves intro call, technical screening, challenge, and hiring panel.
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge space infrastructure with a fast-growing company; involvement in both commercial and government missions; international team.

## Sources
1. [loftorbital..com](https://loftorbital.com/)
2. [loftorbital.com/about/](https://loftorbital.com/about/)
3. [loftorbital.com/careers/](https://loftorbital.com/careers/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/loftorbital](https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/loft-orbital](https://www.linkedin.com/company/loft-orbital)

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