Senior Staff Industrial Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer - Operational Excellence

Location: Fremont, CA (on-site)
Role Level: Senior Staff Engineer

About the Role

Bloom is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer in Operational Excellence to drive system-level performance across our factory operations. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, manufacturing, and strategy-translating complex, dynamic factory conditions into clear priorities, decisions, and measurable outcomes.

You will operate as a senior technical leader, shaping how capacity, layout, flow, and performance come together to deliver results. This is a high-impact role that requires both strategic thinking and deep engagement with on-the-ground reality.

What You'll Do

Leadership & Integration

• Serve as a senior technical leader across Operational Excellence initiatives, ensuring alignment across engineering and production
• Integrate inputs across capacity, layout, flow, and performance into cohesive, actionable insights
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, elevating technical rigor and problem-solving capability
• Step into leadership responsibilities as needed to maintain continuity and execution

Strategic Steering

• Define strategic targets and drive prioritization of key factory initiatives
• Identify major risks, tradeoffs, and critical decision points, ensuring leadership visibility
• Lead cross-functional alignment on factory priorities, balancing competing constraints

Executive Reporting & Communication

• Own and deliver a weekly operational excellence summary, including:
  
  • Top risks and mitigation plans
  • Key changes, trends, and emerging signals
  • Areas requiring leadership attention and decision
• Translate complex operational data into clear narratives for executive audiences

Capacity Management & Planning

• Develop and utilize capacity models to support scenario planning and decision-making
• Translate changes in factory conditions into quantified output and performance impact
• Continuously monitor trends, proactively identifying risks and opportunities

Factory Reality Validation

• Validate reported performance against on-the-ground conditions to ensure accuracy
• Convert ambiguous or loosely defined factory issues into structured problem statements
• Drive root-cause clarity and ensure issues are framed for effective resolution

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing, operations, industrial engineering, or related fields
• Demonstrated ability to operate at a systems level across complex production environments
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, particularly in capacity planning and performance optimization
• Proven track record of influencing cross-functional teams and driving alignment without authority
• Excellent communication skills, with experience engaging executive stakeholders
• Ability to translate ambiguity into structured, actionable plans

• Lead initiatives to improve productivity, throughput, labor efficiency, and overall manufacturing performance.

• Develop and maintain capacity models, labor standards, and time-study methodologies.

• Analyze production processes and implement solutions to improve flow, eliminate bottlenecks, and increase resource utilization.

• Develop business cases and recommendations for automation, equipment, process improvements, and capital investments.

• Create performance metrics, dashboards, and analytical tools to drive data-based decision making.

• Support the forecast and timing of production ramps, new product introductions, and manufacturing capacity expansions.

• Establish industrial engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices while mentoring and developing engineers.

• Lead complex cross-functional projects that improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and capacity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in high-volume or advanced manufacturing environments
• Background in industrial engineering, operations research, or similar disciplines
• Familiarity with factory modeling, simulation, or advanced planning tools

Why Bloom

At Bloom, you'll work on mission-critical manufacturing challenges that directly impact performance and scale. You'll collaborate with leaders across engineering and operations while shaping how our factories operate at a system level.

Salary Ranges:
$134,500.00 - $193,500.00