Production Director (Starship)

The role

You will lead large-scale, multi-disciplinary production teams and complex manufacturing projects at Starbase. You will oversee Starbase Production Operations to achieve manifest milestones and drive process excellence for Starship hardware.

What you will do

• Oversee the strategic and tactical execution of Starbase Production Operations
• Manage overall staff and several direct reports
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to ensure vehicle development meets timelines
• Meet tight production schedules to achieve high-rate production
• Maintain productive relationships and influence others outside of area of responsibility
• Lead and develop a high performing culture
• Ensure a strong focus is placed on safety
• Champion continuous improvement projects using metrics and data sources
• Foster a spirit of cooperation and collaboration within and between support departments
• Follow documentation and maintain prescribed quality standards

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field or at least 8+ years of experience in a production/military/automotive environment
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing/engineering leadership role
• 2+ years of experience in a managerial role overseeing indirect reports
• Able to travel for short and extended trips as needed (up to 10% travel)

Nice to have

• Proven track record of building, motivating, mentoring, and coaching high performance manufacturing teams
• Technical project management experience
• Excellent technical expertise and judgement across multiple engineering disciplines
• Creative problem solving that can bring multiple disciplines together
• Ability to assess risk and make development decisions without all available data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and external customers or vendors
• Highly detail oriented and passionate about advancing the commercial space industry
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from

About the company

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The company is actively developing the Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster launch system.