Manufacturing Engineer, Supply Chain (Starship)

The role

This person will support the Starship program by serving as a technical point of contact for assigned rocket parts and assemblies. They will manage new product introduction, conduct design for manufacturing reviews, and solve manufacturing and quality challenges at suppliers.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical point of contact for assigned parts and assemblies of the rocket
• Solve emergent challenges at suppliers and mitigate risk to the manifest
• Own the new product introduction of new assemblies on the rocket
• Conduct design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews
• Work with procurement to find and vet suppliers
• Create and develop specifications to flow down quality and manufacturing requirements
• Scope out new forming, cutting, and inspection technologies and suppliers
• Review issues on assigned parts and solve to the root cause
• Create and disposition issue tickets
• Lead containment activities on assigned parts

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• 1+ years of experience with manufacturing and/or inspection of mechanical products in a production environment
• Ability to travel: up to 40-50% work week travel

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in engineering or business
• Fundamental understanding of propulsion/fluid systems and the respective component manufacturing processes
• Fundamental understanding of sheet metal forming, cutting, and assembly processes
• Experience with machining and ancillary operations such as milling, turning, and tube cutting of materials
• Experience with engineering drawings, modeling, GD&T, etc.
• General familiarity with welding (TIG, MIG and orbital tube welding) of stainless and carbon steels
• Knowledge of supplier quality processes
• Knowledge of statistical techniques and methods, e.g., design of experiments, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.
• Experience with quality systems (ISO 9000/TS/AS9100/NADCAP) and MRP/ERP systems
• Disciplined approach to problem solving - 8D

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligibl

About the company

SpaceX is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The company was founded on the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting.