Lead Test Specialist — Starship Production

SpaceX; Starbase (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Test Specialist Supervisor (Starship) to lead a team of test specialists conducting production checkouts on Starship and Super Heavy vehicles. The role focuses on hour-by-hour and day-by-day checkout progress across integration stations, aligning labor across campaigns, and maintaining a culture of excellence on site.

The supervisor will translate direction from operations and engineering into actionable leadership, ensuring safety, quality, and flight-worthiness while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 5+ years of experience in production test, vehicle checkout, or final assembly: aviation, aerospace, mechanical or electrical systems
• 2+ years of experience in leading a team or a project

Responsibilities

• Supervise production checkout activity across shop floor stations and cells, including daily schedules, vehicle configuration, and workflow
• Lead and manage a staff of ~8 test specialists including all performance management related tasks
• Review test plans, procedures, and as-runs and make change recommendations when needed
• Assess and vet appropriate skillsets as needed across avionics and propulsion checkouts, leak checks, data review, and test procedure authoring
• Identify training needs and develop training programs
• Provide required data and reporting to support departmental metrics and improvement objectives, including checkout durations and safety standard incorporation
• Monitor labor hours and overtime, and implement improvement plans and time management with staff
• Accomplish checkout results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job results
• Effectively organise, assign and track work/deliverables for the team, ensuring seamless progression through multi-shift and multi-station vehicle schedules
• Initiate and foster a spirit of cooperation within and between departments
• Ensure checkouts safety, quality, data integrity, and conformance to specifications and flight-worthiness requirements
• Maintain GSE, test equipment, gage, and consumable supply inventory
• Improve area safety and efficiency through regular auditing and continuous improvement of frequent procedures, including clears, LOTO, and press/vent operations
• Continuously improve process and manpower efficiency, utilisation and productivity

Skills

Leadership

Lean manufacturing

Communication

Process improvement

Quality & safety

Adaptability

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace/ mechanical/ electrical engineering or related field

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Test Specialist Supervisor (Starship) to lead a team of test specialists conducting production checkouts on Starship and Super Heavy vehicles. The role focuses on hour-by-hour and day-by-day checkout progress across integration stations, aligning labor across campaigns, and maintaining a culture of excellence on site.

The supervisor will translate direction from operations and engineering into actionable leadership, ensuring safety, quality, and flight-worthiness while