Operations Manager
Materials Engineering, Starlink
Posted on 3/9/2023
INACTIVE
SpaceX

10,001+ employees

Manufactures advanced rockets and spacecrafts for space transportation
Company Overview
SpaceX, under the leadership of Elon Musk, has consistently demonstrated its technical prowess and industry leadership by achieving milestones previously accomplished only by governments, such as returning a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit and attaching a spacecraft to the International Space Station. The company's culture is driven by a clear and ambitious goal to make life multiplanetary, fostering an environment of high performance and continuous learning. With its advanced rocket and spacecraft designs, SpaceX has a competitive edge in the space transportation industry, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA and working towards the future of space exploration.
Aerospace
Hardware

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$9.2B

Founded

2002

Headquarters

Hawthorne, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

15%

1 year growth

28%

2 year growth

33%
Locations
Austin, TX, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of professional experience working in one or more of the following; or advanced degree and 2+ years of professional experience working in one or more of the following
  • Engineering
  • Production
  • Manufacturing
  • Operations
  • 3+ years of industry product or process design/development experience, specifically focused within production or integration systems
  • 3+ years of leadership experience, either leading people or projects
  • Degree in an engineering discipline
  • 3+ years of experience in a leadership position in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience transitioning products from design to manufacturing and scaling to high volume as part of a cross-functional team
  • Experience with manufacturing process like injection molding, CNC, die casting, stamping, assembly, and box build in a production setting and a good understanding of the costs and schedule and complexity associated with each process
  • Experience defining and assessing quality standards associated with common manufacturing processes including drawing specifications, limit samples, and incoming/outgoing quality control points with a proven track-record of shepherding products from tool release to mass production
  • Willingness to travel to other SpaceX sites and/or vendors for significant/extended periods of time (in excess of 30% of the time) including international
  • Ability to lift up to 30 Ibs. unassisted
  • Standing/walking for long periods of time
  • Willingness to work long hours and weekends as necessary to accommodate manufacturing and test campaigns
  • To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here
Responsibilities
  • Take direct ownership of the physical production layout, optimizing for material flow from material receiving through processes on the line
  • Create collaborative business plans with design engineering, upstream production, and support teams and develop and maintain positive supplier/customer relationships
  • Indirectly lead a team of engineers and operations staff responsible for the development of technologies relating to stamping, plastic injection molding and high pressure die casting manufacturing processes for Starlink hardware
  • Manage strategy for CapX, staffing, production line tooling, inventory, training and build process and ensure all are updated according to the latest design configuration
  • Act as a technical decision maker and advisor to the team on manufacturing techniques responsible for implementing turn-key processes to production that are capable of high-volume throughput (2M+ per year)
  • Continually develop and manage engineering capacity, schedules, and project plans in order to support production manifest as well as a diverse and variable R&D demand
  • Research and identify new materials, manufacturing technologies and finishing options
  • Inform estimations of prototype and production manufacturing costs - tooling, secondary assembly, secondary finishing and piece part
  • Publish and maintain detailed schedules for each development project segment