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Operations Engineer – Materials Lab Operations
| Company | SpaceX |
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| Location | West Athens, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $95000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial, mechanical, software, or other engineering discipline
- 2+ years of manufacturing scheduling experience
Responsibilities
- Develop tools to analyze turnaround time, capacity, testing costs, asset utilization, and lab operations to guide decisions
- Identify operational challenges within the organization, determine root cause, and develop appropriate solutions
- Utilize our ERP application and other applicable tools to ensure work is scheduled and prioritized accurately and efficiently and resources allocated appropriately
- Work cross-functionally to understand critical work requests ahead and behind targets to mitigate schedule impact risks
- Develop and track key performance measures, and identify decision points and actions to optimize production to meet demand
- Collaborate with cross-departmental partners in design engineering, production, and materials engineering synchronize efforts
- Create metrics and leverage SQL and Excel to highlight schedule risks and opportunities
- Lead weekly materials lab schedule reviews with operations and engineering to understand and address roadblocks to the plan
- Act as subject matter expert in multiple Materials Lab processes and systems, enabling complex data gathering, troubleshooting, and problem solving
- Ownership of floor layouts, capacity studies, and product flow analysis to ensure on-time product delivery
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, SQL, and PowerBI
- Experience with scheduling, prioritization, and material planning in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with material testing, analysis, or characterization
- General understanding of how to measure asset utilization and overall capacity modeling
- Familiarity with SketchUp, Visio, or AutoCAD
- Familiarity with lean principles, Six Sigma, and Kaizen concepts
- Project management professional certification OR 1+ years of practical experience with ERP/MRP systems in a production environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting to and influencing a variety of stakeholders (across all SpaceX programs)
- Experience working both autonomously and as a team in a highly demanding and fast paced environment
- Creative approach to problem solving and exceptional analytical skills
