TerraFirma is transforming construction through automation and bold engineering—faster, safer, and cheaper. Join us in building the future from Texas. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
Design and own TerraFirma's operator training curriculum from scratch, including a high-intensity, multi-week onboarding program for new operators Personally instruct and evaluate trainees on safe, proficient operation of bulldozers, excavators, and other heavy civil equipment
What they're looking for
- Extensive hands-on experience operating heavy civil equipment (bulldozers, excavators, graders, or similar)
- Direct experience designing and/or running a heavy equipment operator training program, school, or certification curriculum
- Proven ability to train and evaluate others on safe, proficient equipment operation
- Strong organizational skills and comfort building structured, disciplined training programs from scratch
- Background running or teaching at a heavy equipment operator school or union apprenticeship program
- Military, first responder, or other high-performance training background (e.g., experience building or running intensive onboarding/bootcamp-style programs)
More about this role
At TerraFirma, we’re redefining how the world moves earth for construction. Founded by former SpaceX engineers and backed by Kleiner Perkins and Bain Capital Ventures, TerraFirma is automating construction to make it faster, cheaper, and safer.
At SpaceX, we were part of the teams that built the largest rocket in human history, launched the largest constellation of satellites ever made, and delivered connectivity to millions of people worldwide. What we learned was simple: infrastructure is everything.
At Starbase, the biggest barrier to launching missions to Mars was not building the rocket. It was how slow, expensive, and complex it was to build the infrastructure around it. We lacked buildings, roads, water, power, communications, and waste management, and constructing them took far more time and resources than it should have.
From a first-principles perspective, that doesn't make sense. It shouldn't be this hard or costly to create the foundations for progress. That’s when we realized something important: the same engineering mindset that enabled us to tackle space exploration and mass manufacturing could be applied to infrastructure. By bringing the principles of...
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