Operations Engineer (Production)

$110,000 - $130,000/Yr

SpaceX - Hawthorne, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Onsite - Hawthorne, CA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Operations Engineer (Production) at SpaceX plays a crucial role in supporting the Falcon and Dragon production programs. This position involves strategic planning, optimizing production processes, and aligning resources to tasks. The engineer will lead cross-functional teams to enhance production, testing, launching, and recovery operations in a dynamic environment, applying principles from operations engineering, operations research, and data science to solve complex optimization problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools to analyze delivery, capacity, and cost problems for production, supply chain, and operations to guide decisions.
• Work as part of a team to develop and manage production strategy to mitigate future production risks and seize emerging opportunities to improve quality, output, safety, and cost.
• Develop process flow models to analyze production system behavior and synchronize output with other elements of the company.
• Identify operational challenges within the organization, determine root cause, and develop appropriate solutions.
• Develop and track key performance measures, and identify decision points and actions to optimize production to meet demand.
• Actively develop system and process improvements within and between production elements.
• Collaborate with cross-departmental partners in supply chain, engineering, operations, and accounting groups to synchronize efforts.
• Capture best practices of production systems, and manage organizational knowledge and lessons-learned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of experience in using Excel, SQL, or Python/R for analysis or modeling dynamic systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Proficiency with statistics, data analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and visualization.
• Experience with CAD software, Power BI, and discrete event modeling tools.
• Experience with inventory, production, and capacity planning (including MRP/ERP systems).
• Experience as an industrial, operations, process or manufacturing engineer in a developmental manufacturing environment.
• Experience with lean, six sigma, and related production principles.
• Experience or education in management science and engineering, operations engineering, operations research, or industrial engineering.
• Experience as a contributor to multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, high stress environments.
• Excellent written and communication skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short & long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount.
• 3 weeks of paid vacation.
• 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• 5 days of sick leave per year.