Starbase Contracts & Compliance Lead

SpaceX; Starbase (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a contract and compliance professional to manage supplier contracts supporting Starship production and Starbase operations. You will draft statements of work, define SLAs, and coordinate with maintenance, reliability, crane operations, and production to ensure uptime and proper closeout.

The role emphasizes negotiating terms, governing compliance programs, and tracking performance across a portfolio of on-site contractors and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree OR 5+ years in contracts, procurement, supplier management, export compliance, or regulatory compliance in manufacturing, construction, aerospace, defense, or heavy industry
• 3+ years of experience in contracts, procurement, supplier management, export compliance, or regulatory compliance in manufacturing, construction, aerospace, defense, or heavy industry
• 2+ years of experience as a people leader or owning a project portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Own the contract and compliance posture for assigned suppliers, construction contractors, equipment vendors, maintenance and repair contractors, and on-site service providers
• Run agreements from need through closeout, including scope, commercial terms, negotiation support, execution, change orders, amendments, claims, and closeout
• Turn requests from production, test, facilities, crane and heavy equipment, construction, maintenance, and operations into statements of work, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and schedules that can be enforced
• Own maintenance and repair contracts for critical equipment and site systems. Set the work the contractor must perform, the hours they must cover, the parts they must stage, and the condition the equipment must be in when they hand it back
• Write and enforce service level agreements with maintenance and repair contractors, including: Response time, Restore time, Uptime targets, Parts availability, Reporting, escalation, and after-action requirements
• Track each SLA with call logs, downtime records, and repair closeout. Apply the contract remedies, including service credits, added coverage, or replacement of a contractor who misses the standard
• Work with maintenance, reliability, crane operations, and production during a breakdown so the contractor is called under the right agreement, the scope stays inside that agreement, and the equipment is returned to service against the SLA
• Review repeat repairs and repeat SLA misses with maintenance and reliability. Change the scope, the spare-parts requirement, or the contractor when the same failure keeps coming back
• Build and maintain compliance programs for the assigned portfolio that include: obligation registers, flowdown, site-access, corrective action
• Review new and revised agreements for missing clauses, conflicting terms, and requirements the supplier cannot meet, and resolve them with Procurement, Legal, Finance, and the requesting team
• Run working-level contract changes. Hold scope, price, and schedule to the written agreement, and elevate disputes with a clear record
• Lead or support supplier and internal audits, assessments, and responses to customer, government, or internal findings. Own closure of findings in the assigned portfolio
• Control export-controlled and proprietary information shared with suppliers. Confirm authorization, marking, and need-to-know
• Onboard new suppliers and new statements of work. Release them to work only after contract, compliance, insurance, quality, and site-access gates are met
• Support source selection with compliance and past-performance input. Flag suppliers who cannot meet flowdowns, site rules, response times, or delivery risk before award
• Define and track contract and compliance metrics, including cycle time, obligation aging, on-time delivery, SLA attainment, audit findings, and repeat noncompliance
• Give production, test, maintenance, and site leaders a clear read on what is authorized, what is late, which contractors are missing their service levels, and what is blocked
• Work with Legal, Procurement, Finance, Security, EHS, Quality, Maintenance, and Engineering so contract terms, service levels, and compliance controls match how the work is actually done

Skills

Contract management

SLA management

SOW drafting

ITAR compliance

Quality requirements

SAP experience

Scope analysis

Audit responses

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, engineering

Tools

SAP

Excel

Power BI

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a contract and compliance professional to manage supplier contracts supporting Starship production and Starbase operations. You will draft statements of work, define SLAs, and coordinate with maintenance, reliability, crane operations, and production to ensure uptime and proper closeout.

The role emphasizes negotiating terms, governing compliance programs, and tracking performance across a portfolio of on-site contractors and vendors.