Operation Engineer (Satellite Supply Chain)

SpaceX • Redmond, WA

89d • $95,000 - $130,000

About The Position

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. As an Operations Engineer on the Starlink Satellite team, you will drive improvement projects for our Materials Management and Satellite Supply Chain organization to ensure that safety, reliability, and process capability goals are achieved, maintained, and improved. You will be a vital part of the relationship between our development, supply chain, and production teams. You will drive the design and development of new and existing processes and infrastructure to enable SpaceX to continue building and improving the world's most advanced satellite constellation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline
• 1+ years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and/or inventory management (including school projects, clubs, or internships)

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in engineering or supply chain
• 1+ year of experience with CAD software, SQL, business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI, Grafana), analysis tools (Python/R, Minitab, Excel, etc.), or discrete event modeling tools
• Experience as an industrial, operations, quality, process, or manufacturing engineer in a manufacturing environment
• Proficiency with statistics, data analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and visualization
• Experience with inventory, production, and capacity planning (including MRP/ERP systems)
• Proficient in identifying system enhancement opportunities, understanding end-user requirements, and the ability to translate requirement needs into design requirements
• Experience with Lean, six sigma, and related production principles
• Experience with data analytics
• Strong communication skills and the ability to make presentations to engineering teams, internal customers, and leadership

Responsibilities

• Identify, plan, and execute capital equipment, machine, building/infrastructure, and layout upgrades specifically related to materials management to meet production and site demand
• Manage material flow projects, and execute to tight timelines while effectively communicating with and influencing stakeholders
• Drive improvements to increase inventory, on-time delivery, reliability, and reduce waste
• Anticipate and identify challenges within the satellite material flow and logistics value stream, determine root-cause failures, and develop appropriate solutions
• Develop, standardize, and continuously improve key process indicators and other operations metrics
• Pull and transform data to understand and communicate current activities, and build a business case for improvement efforts
• Train inventory and receiving specialists, logistics team members, and leaders on best-in-class operations practices by driving process improvement workshops, providing training and information briefs on key topics, and demonstrating solutions

Benefits

• Pay range: Operations Engineer/Level I: $95,000.00 - $115,000.00/per year
• Pay range: Operations Engineer/Level II: $110,000.00 - $130,000.00/per year
• Long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards
• Potential discretionary bonuses
• Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Accrual of 3 weeks of paid vacation
• Eligibility for 10 or more paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law
• Company shuttles offered for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees