Materials & Supplier Development Engineer – NPI & Mfg

SpaceX; Brownsville (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Supplier Development Engineer (Materials Engineering) in Texas to lead manufacturing and quality initiatives for rocket components and assemblies. You will drive supplier capabilities, introduce new parts, and ensure manufacturability with a focus on rapid ramp to rate and high reliability.

The role requires hands-on experience in fabrication processes, DFM reviews, and collaboration with procurement to vet suppliers meeting aggressive takt times.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering is required.
• 1+ years of experience in manufacturing and/or inspection of mechanical products in production is required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical point of contact for assigned parts and assemblies of the rocket, solving emergent challenges at suppliers, and mitigating risk to the manifest by addressing high-impact manufacturing and quality challenges.
• Own the new product introduction of new assemblies on the rocket, including determining the ideal manufacturing method, identifying suppliers, and developing a reliable process for ramping to rate.
• Conduct design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews to ensure parts are manufacturable at early stages, preferably prior to sourcing.
• Work with procurement to find exceptional suppliers and vet them appropriately for quality and ability to meet our aggressive takt times.
• Create and develop specifications as needed to flow down quality and manufacturing requirements to the supply base.
• Scope out new forming, cutting, and inspection technologies and suppliers that may be employed to improve rate/quality/efficiency.
• Review issues on assigned parts and solve to the root cause, implementing changes at the supplier, at SpaceX or both, as appropriate, drive further actions to closure, and re-source to new suppliers where appropriate.
• Create and disposition issue tickets where needed, working with engineering counterparts to implement, but not limited to, required re-work, repair or use as-is disposition.
• Become thoroughly familiar with your assigned parts and the processes that make up the overall assembly and become the primary point of contact for supply chain related defects on your parts.
• Demonstrate innovation, technical excellence, attention to detail, self-direction and courage to push the technical envelope which is conventionally held in the industry.
• Lead containment activities on assigned parts, working with cross-functional counterparts to agree on scope, path forward and ultimate resolution.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

DFM

Supplier management

Root cause analysis (8D)

Quality systems (ISO 9000/TS/AS9100/Ni

PPAP

Lean Six Sigma

MS Office

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

MS Office

Excel

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Supplier Development Engineer (Materials Engineering) in Texas to lead manufacturing and quality initiatives for rocket components and assemblies. You will drive supplier capabilities, introduce new parts, and ensure manufacturability with a focus on rapid ramp to rate and high reliability.

The role requires hands-on experience in fabrication processes, DFM reviews, and collaboration with procurement to vet suppliers meeting aggressive takt times.