Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
About the role
As a Material Flow Engineer on the Manufacturing Engineering team, you will design the factory layouts, work methods, and capacity models that enable Zipline to scale production reliably. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Improve factory layouts, workstations, operator movement, and material presentation
- Define WIP, buffer, queue, and rework strategies that protect output while reducing inventory and lead time
- Partner with Manufacturing, Production, Supply Chain, and Material Planning on line architecture, lineside availability, and replenishment
- Lead time studies, define standard work and labor models, and balance station loading against takt time
- Build capacity and capital-investment scenarios for labor, equipment, tooling, shifts, floor space, and future demand
- Identify current and future bottlenecks and implement improvements in throughput, utilization, cycle time, labor efficiency, and cost
More about this role
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
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