Supply Chain Reliability Engineer (Falcon & Dragon)

About Spacex

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Job Summary

The Supply Chain team is responsible for the sourcing, planning, procurement, warehousing, and transportation of all raw materials and components needed to build our revolutionary spacecraft and launch vehicles. Our mission is to get the right part in the right place at the right time, every time. SpaceX demands a new type of supply chain. We require our suppliers to provide premium quality with rapidly evolving designs at increasingly ambitious volumes. We are actively looking for candidates who possess comprehensive knowledge of manufacturing and quality tools and have unrelenting motivation to enable supply chain for success.

Key Responsibilities

• Interface with Production operations, Inspection, Shipping/Receiving, and Engineering teams to develop appropriate quality signals and processes to meeting overall program reliability goals
• Maintain established quality processes and necessary procedures to ensure the identification, segregation, control, and disposition of all nonconforming materials, parts, components, and subassemblies at the business and supplier level
• Responsible for Containment actions associated with non-conforming product, including identification of product location, coordination with Build Reliability Engineers of potential Flight risk and the coordination of actions required to identify root cause analysis
• Identify opportunities for risk reduction and removal of complexity in designs and processes to improve manufacturability, collaborating with integrated product teams to drive improvements and address high-impact and repeating non-conformances
• Responsible for tracking yield, test/inspection escapes, and ensuring past failures and lessons learned are incorporated into NPI

Requirements

• A deep technical and practical knowledge of manufacturing processes and standards
• An ability to lead projects, help develop strategy, drive cross-functional team accountability, and deliver results
• A passion for continuous improvement and a patience to shepherd ideas from initial requirements through execution
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves and step into unknown situations to understand the current state and most optimal path forward
• Be a voice of reasoning for reliability and ensure that product reliability risks are taken into account within Supply Chain process
• Build relationships with cross-functional groups to identify, prioritize, and close any reliability or process gaps
• An ability to lead groups in creating and refining ideas or solutions to problems, communicating the benefits of change, and keeping related projects on track