Starship Production Planner

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in the United States is seeking a Production Scheduler for its Starship program. You will drive efficient production by developing rate-based schedules, tracking constraints, and collaborating with teams to align with overall rate targets for next missions.

You will identify part shortages, project long-term needs, and work with internal suppliers to secure hardware while optimizing allocation between new and refurbished units to meet customer quality requirements and delivery timelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations; OR 3+ years of professional experience with manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations.
• Experience using ERP/MRP systems in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist in production scheduling for a given production work center, including identifying need dates for all part shortages and 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 6+ missions
• Use an established schedule to create and generate stakeholder buy-in on various scenarios to determine optimal hardware allocation between new/refurb hardware that take 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 internal suppliers and establish high-accuracy means of communication for both estimated hardware needs and completion dates
• Manage the scheduling and prioritization of your hardware at shared resources that are common to multiple departments at SpaceX
• Negotiate with peers in other departments for correct overall priority and seek creative solutions that drive the optimal business outcome
• Monitor MRP systems and leverage SQL Queries 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 Starship Ship Engineering 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

Production scheduling

ERP/MRP systems

SQL queries

Cross-functional collaboration

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ERP/MRP

SQL

Power BI

JIRA

Smartsheet

VBA

Job description

SpaceX in the United States is seeking a Production Scheduler for its Starship program. You will drive efficient production by developing rate-based schedules, tracking constraints, and collaborating with teams to align with overall rate targets for next missions.

You will identify part shortages, project long-term needs, and work with internal suppliers to secure hardware while optimizing allocation between new and refurbished units to meet customer quality requirements and delivery timelines.