Production Control Scheduler (Starship Launch Hardware)

SpaceX•Cape Canaveral, FL

15h

About The Position

Launch Hardware develops Starship processing facilities, launch pads, and recovery vessels to enable aircraft-like launch operations. The department executes multiple construction and fabrication projects in parallel, with robust pre-planning and frequent changes. The Production Control Scheduler owns scheduling for a production work center, from daily execution through long-term rate planning. The role identifies and removes blockers, coordinates hardware allocation and shared resources, manages schedule risks, and works across production teams, customers, and suppliers to support on-time delivery. Aerospace experience is not required; SpaceX seeks inventive, motivated, collaborative people who respond rapidly to requests.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year of experience in manufacturing scheduling, planning, or operations; alternatively, at least 3 years of professional experience in those fields in lieu of a degree.
At least 1 year of experience using ERP/MRP systems in a production environment.
Ability to travel, potentially up to 25% of the work week.
Ability to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet major milestones.
Ability to pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
Must meet ITAR eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice To Haves

Remarkable problem-solving skills with a bias for speed and accuracy.
Self-motivation, quick learning, and the ability to prioritize work to meet customer and company goals.
Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external supplier and customer relationships in a fast-moving, changing environment.
Technical knowledge and coding or computer application skills, such as MS Office Suite, VBA, Smartsheet, SQL, Confluence, JIRA, or Power BI.
A strong record of implementing continuous improvement, ideally using lean principles, Six Sigma, Kaizen, or other problem-solving frameworks.
Experience leading multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams working on strategic problems.
Project management professional certification.

Responsibilities

Own production scheduling for an assigned production work center, managing day-to-day tasks and projecting long-term department rate needs.
Create rate-based hardware schedules and define and track constraints for upcoming builds and missions.
Use established schedules to develop scenarios and gain stakeholder buy-in for optimal allocation of new and refurbished hardware, considering customer needs, the mission manifest, and customer quality requirements.
Work with production teams to set, track, and execute daily and weekly goals that account for personnel and equipment constraints while supporting overall rate targets.
Build relationships with customers and internal and external suppliers, and communicate accurate hardware needs and completion-date estimates.
Understand MRP requirements and logic for assigned hardware and lead cross-functional efforts to improve MRP accuracy and alignment between targeted and actual schedules.
Schedule and prioritize hardware at shared resources across SpaceX departments, negotiate priorities with peers, and seek solutions that support the overall business outcome.
Use SQL queries and Excel databases to identify shortages for upcoming builds and coordinate the movement of needed hardware into the production area.
Identify, develop, and implement scheduling automation opportunities to reduce manual schedule development, tracking, and updates.
Conduct work-center capacity analysis, identify causes of schedule slips, and lead reactive and proactive efforts to reduce near- and long-term schedule risk.
Investigate root causes of build issues and develop permanent resolutions to remove internal and external blockers to on-time delivery; address assembly-level and integration misalignment.
Identify and support improvements to product yield, quality, safety, cost, and team efficiency.