Falcon Production Scheduler: Master the Build Schedule

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Hawthorne, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental coverage

Paid vacation + holidays + 401(k)

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA, is seeking a Production Control Scheduler (Falcon) to own the full scheduling lifecycle for a production work center, aligning daily tasks with long‑term rate targets. You will collaborate with production teams, suppliers, and customers to optimize hardware allocation and schedule adherence across missions.

Responsibilities include building rate‑based schedules, improving MRP accuracy, and driving automation to reduce manual steps.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
• Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of experience in manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations OR 3+ years of professional experience in manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of experience using ERP/MRP systems in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership of production scheduling for a given production work center, including managing both tactical day-to-day tasks as well as projecting long-term high-level rate needs for the department.
• Create a rate-based schedule for your hardware, and define/track constraints across your build for the next missions.
• Use an established schedule to create and generate stakeholder buy-in on various scenarios to determine optimal hardware allocation between new/refurbished hardware that takes into account customer needs, current mission manifest, and customer quality requirements.
• Work with production teams to set, track, and execute daily and weekly goals for the work center that take into account personnel and equipment constraints but support overall rate targets.
• Build strong relationships with customers as well as internal/external suppliers, and establish high-accuracy means of communication for both estimated hardware needs and completion dates.
• Understand MRP requirements and logic for your hardware, and lead cross-functional efforts to manage and improve MRP accuracy to create better alignment between targeted and actual schedules.
• Manage the scheduling and prioritization of your hardware at shared resources that are common to multiple departments at SpaceX. Actively negotiate with peers in other departments for the correct overall priority and seek creative solutions that drive the optimal business outcome.
• Leverage SQL Queries and Excel databases to identify hardware shortages for upcoming builds, and lead the charge to pull this hardware into your production area.
• Identify, develop, and implement opportunities for increased scheduling automation across the Dragon department with a focus on reducing the manual operations required to develop, track, and update overall schedules.
• Drive down near‑term and future schedule risk by conducting work‑center level capacity analysis, identifying model and communication gaps that cause schedule slips, and leading initiatives (reactive and proactive) that mitigate those risks.
• Lead efforts to uncover root‑cause and develop permanent resolution on issues found during product builds as required to eliminate internal and external blockers to deliver product on time. Drive conversations around assembly‑level & integration misalignment
• Identify and support improvement opportunities for product yield, quality, safety, cost, and team efficiency

Skills

Problem solving

Speed and accuracy

Relationship building

Cross-functional teamwork

Project management

Lean/Six Sigma/Kaizen

Technical proficiency

Multi-disciplinary leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SQL

Excel

Power BI

VBA

Smartsheet

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA, is seeking a Production Control Scheduler (Falcon) to own the full scheduling lifecycle for a production work center, aligning daily tasks with long‑term rate targets. You will collaborate with production teams, suppliers, and customers to optimize hardware allocation and schedule adherence across missions.

Responsibilities include building rate‑based schedules, improving MRP accuracy, and driving automation to reduce manual steps.