Night-Shift Equipment Maintenance Supervisor (Aerospace)

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Supervisor, Equipment Maintenance (Starship) for the night shift in Wisconsin to lead a team of technicians in a fast-paced aerospace manufacturing setting. You will drive reliability improvements, coordinate maintenance actions, and manage workload while coordinating with third-party vendors and internal customers.

The role requires strong leadership, hands-on troubleshooting of hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and control systems, and experience with Siemens PLCs and

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
• 2+ years of experience leading a team, including leading projects and people.
• 5+ years of technical experience with hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and electrical repair.
• Associate degree in a technical discipline is preferred.
• Experience installing, aligning and commissioning automated production cells in aerospace environment.
• Experience accessing and modifying Siemens control logic or similar PLC architectures.
• Experience in breakdown data analysis and six sigma (SQL experience is a distinct advantage).
• Ability to read and interpret electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic schematics and drawings.

Responsibilities

• Work with maintenance manager to perform full spectrum analysis on asset reliability improvement opportunities, such as suggesting improved preventative maintenance actions, identification of design flaws, with a top down approach to maintenance demand driver reduction.
• Lead a team of technicians through daily repairs, preventative maintenance actions, complex continuous improvement projects, to ensure maximum asset availability for Starbase manufacturing.
• Manage weekly workload distribution and technician task assignments.
• Triage of incoming maintenance requests from internal customers, and effectively resource manage priority workload with all available resources.
• Work with third-party vendors for parts acquisition, asset documentation standards, training, and on-site maintenance actions.
• Act as a subject matter expert in equipment maintenance troubleshooting, mechatronics, project management, team KPI analysis, lean manufacturing strategies, and high-level people leadership in a fast-paced environment.
• Lead a diverse technician team to troubleshoot and repair control and electrical system failures involving – PLCs, HMIs, servomotors, servo amplifiers, input/output, field sensors.
• Lead a diverse technician team to troubleshoot and repair hydraulic and pneumatic systems – actuators, valves, pumps, filters.
• Lead a diverse technician team to troubleshoot and repair automated tool mechanical systems – ballscrews, linear rails, guideways, gearboxes, 3 phase motors.
• Provide developmental leadership to a team of technicians, facilitating training and advancement of skills, to maintain cutting edge aerospace technologies.
• Perform other related duties, as assigned, for the purpose of ensuring an efficient and effective work environment.

Skills

Team leadership

Troubleshooting

Mechatronics

LEAN manufacturing

Analytical thinking

Autonomous work

Education

High school diploma

Associate degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Siemens PLC

CAD

MS Office

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Supervisor, Equipment Maintenance (Starship) for the night shift in Wisconsin to lead a team of technicians in a fast-paced aerospace manufacturing setting. You will drive reliability improvements, coordinate maintenance actions, and manage workload while coordinating with third-party vendors and internal customers.

The role requires strong leadership, hands-on troubleshooting of hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and control systems, and experience with Siemens PLCs and