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.

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.

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.

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.

The Environment

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 no