Manufacturing Facility & Industrial Engineer

Snowcap is moving into the facility build-out phase of its manufacturing program: roughly 450,000 square feet, an approximately $1B capital plan, built in phases over the next decade, with the Jacksonville site as the initial deployment. The industrial engineering for that — product flow, equipment layout, cleanroom zoning, throughput modeling, capacity planning — is not yet someone's job at Snowcap. It becomes yours.
You will lead the industrial engineering planning for the phased build-out: define and optimize product flow, material handling, and equipment layout; develop manufacturing capacity and space utilization models by phase; and produce the manufacturing process flow documentation that turns superconducting chip fabrication at scale into a runnable line. You will work directly with construction management, MEP engineers, and equipment vendors on the build side, with the operations software team on digital factory and MES planning, and with fab technology and physics on what the process actually needs from the facility. We are a flat, matrixed organization — the decisions are yours to drive.
In twelve months, the phased buildout plan you produce should be the artifact every capital decision, every equipment procurement conversation, and every layout review at Snowcap runs through. The discipline you establish around capacity modeling, throughput planning, and process flow documentation becomes the baseline every future industrial engineer at Snowcap inherits.

- Lead industrial engineering planning for the phased Snowcap manufacturing facility build-out — product flow, equipment layout, cleanroom zoning, and the phase-by-phase sequencing that makes the capital plan executable.
- Define and optimize product flow, material handling, and WIP movement across the floor — including the constraints that superconducting and cryogenic process steps impose on layout.
- Develop manufacturing capacity models and space utilization plans by phase — what each phase produces, what it needs to operate, and what tradeoffs the next phase makes.
- Own the manufacturing process flow documentation for superconducting chip fabrication at scale — the artifact equipment, facilities, and operations all align to.
- Coordinate with construction management, MEP engineers, and equipment vendors on the technical requirements the facility has to meet, and the sequencing that minimizes rework as phases land.
- Partner with the operations software team on digital factory and MES planning — what the floor needs to instrument, what data has to be captured, and what decisions the system has to support.
- Stand up the initial deployment in Jacksonville and use it as the proof point and template for everything that follows.
- Set the standard at Snowcap for how manufacturing facility and IE planning is done — the documentation, the modeling, and the decision artifacts the next engineer in this seat inherits.

- Industrial or manufacturing engineering background applied at scale — a semiconductor fab, advanced electronics manufacturing, or comparable precision manufacturing environment where your IE work shaped real layouts and real throughput.
- Direct experience planning or executing large-scale cleanroom or precision manufacturing facility build-outs, including the phasing decisions that determine whether the schedule and capital plan hold.
- Strong process flow and capacity modeling skills — equipment, WIP, throughput, cycle time, and the ability to defend a model under capital-decision pressure.
- Working knowledge of the facilities envelope: HVAC, vibration isolation, electrical, gas distribution, and the utility requirements that cleanroom and cryogenic operations actually demand.
- Demonstrated ability to operate across disciplines — construction management, MEP, equipment procurement, operations software — without losing the technical thread on any of them.
- Strategic planning ability across a multi-year, multi-phase roadmap, combined with the discipline to execute near-term phase milestones without losing the long view.

- Fab planning or industrial engineering background at Intel, TSMC, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, or comparable semiconductor manufacturers — particularly programs where you executed a phased facility plan from green-field to production.
- Aerospace or defense manufacturing facility planning experience with cleanroom or precision-environment requirements that transfer to a superconducting fab context.
- Operations research or industrial engineering consulting background where you owned the IE side of a large capital equipment facility project end to end.
- Hands-on experience modeling capacity, throughput, and bottleneck analysis in tools that go beyond spreadsheets — discrete-event simulation, factory simulation packages, or equivalent.
- Working familiarity with MES, factory data systems, and the integration between IE planning and the digital factory layer.
- Experience with cryogenic, ultra-high-vacuum, or other non-standard cleanroom utility environments — anything that proves the facility envelope can stretch past commodity fab assumptions.
- Track record of published or internal IE methodology — capacity models, layout standards, or planning playbooks that other teams have adopted.

Snowcap is a small, technically elite team standing up a manufacturing facility for a process that has not been run at this scale anywhere. There is no inherited fab planning playbook to copy from — the existing semiconductor IE conventions translate partially, and the parts that do not translate are the ones that matter most. You will write the playbook as you go, and the next industrial engineer to join builds on what you established.
We are a flat, matrixed organization. You will work daily with construction management, MEP and facilities engineers, equipment vendors, operations software, fab technology, and physics — directly, without layers. When a capital decision and a process requirement collide, that conversation happens in the room that week, not after a quarterly review board.
This role is on-site in Jacksonville. The work is hands-on at the floor plan, in capacity models, in vendor and construction reviews, and at the site itself as phases come online. If you need a settled manufacturing organization with a finished plant and a mature IE playbook to operate inside of, this is not the right fit. If you have wanted to plan a fab from the floor plan up, you are in the right place.

Snowcap builds superconducting compute. (Edit in admin.)

Full medical, dental, and vision · 401(k) · Relocation assistance available for candidates outside the area.
Base salary range is shown in USD and reflects the Jacksonville Metro labor market for this role, calibrated against NASA federal pay scale (Palm Bay locality) and comparable FL semiconductor / defense private-sector roles. Actual offer depends on experience, skills, and seniority, and is exclusive of equity, bonus, and benefits. Florida has no state income tax — relocating candidates should factor that into side-by-side comparisons with high-tax-state offers.
Based in Jacksonville Metro, FL · On-Site.

Snowcap is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. (Edit in admin.)