At SpaceX, we believe that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. To make this possible, we are actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars.

Sr. Supplier Development Engineer (Starlink)

We require our suppliers to provide premium quality with rapidly evolving designs at increasingly ambitious volumes for our newest project, the Starlink products. As a Sr. Supplier Development Engineer, you will possess comprehensive knowledge of NPI manufacturing and quality tools and have unrelenting motivation to enable suppliers for success.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the technical point of contact, solving emergent challenges at suppliers and mitigating risk to the manufacturing system by addressing high-impact manufacturing and quality challenges
• Conduct design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews to ensure manufacturability
• Provide leadership for New Product Introduction (NPI) at suppliers
• Identify, audit and onboard new suppliers; perform surveillance and diagnostic audits on incumbent suppliers
• Industrialize new materials and/or processes by collaborating with suppliers to implement the required capital improvements and developing their capability to scale-up these new technologies
• Collaborate with Design, Quality, and Manufacturing to determine the ideal performance specifications and supplier metrics
• Validate supplier corrective actions involving design and/or process changes to ensure they are robust, sustainable, and implemented for similar potential concerns across manufacturing lines and/or suppliers
• Lead containment activities, working with cross-functional counterparts on scope, path forward and ultimate resolution

You will drive innovation, technical excellence, attention to detail, self-direction and courage to deliver results and customer satisfaction by collaborating with teams, leading projects and continuously driving improvement in the supply base.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or a STEM discipline
• 5 years of manufacturing, supply chain, or business project experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master's degree in engineering or business
• Experience with high volume manufacturing
• Ability to communicate and direct supplier activities at the management level
• Knowledge quality processes - production part approval process (PPAP), advanced product quality planning (APQP), first article inspection reports (FAIR), etc.
• Experience with quality systems (ISO 9000/TS/AS9100/NADCAP)
• Knowledge of statistical techniques and methods, e.g., design of experiments, Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control (SPC), etc.
• Knowledge of Lean concepts
• Experience with sharing information and influencing others across organizational lines, internally and externally
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to make presentations to suppliers, team members and management
• Experience with MRP or ERP systems

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to work extended hours, some nights and weekends when required to meet critical deadlines
• Ability to travel: average of 25-40% travel, possibly on short notice; valid driver's license mandatory