Starship Supply Chain: Supplier Quality Innovator

SpaceX; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Supplier Quality Specialist to strengthen the Starship supply chain. You will own non-conformances, drive corrective actions with vendors, and partner with engineering and procurement to ensure high-quality parts and processes.

You’ll analyze quality metrics, lead containment actions, and help implement new supplier programs to reduce defects and risk. Occasional travel may be required.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or supply chain or 2+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience reading engineering drawings, including GD&T.
• Experience with AS9100 or similar quality management system.
• Knowledge of supplier quality processes (PPP, First Article, etc.).
• Experience interfacing with suppliers and corrective/preventive action systems.

Responsibilities

• Improve the issue ticket landscape for our products.
• Dissect the issue ticket landscape and identify actions to improve vendor performance.
• Own non-conformances in production, triage lots, and drive corrective actions with vendors.
• Partner with vendors to implement new processes to reduce issues and supply chain risk.
• Improve quality management processes with vendors to raise performance.
• Manage containment, receiving, and non-conformances and drive resolution paths.
• Create improvements within SpaceX’s supply base for a stable supply chain.
• Provide onsite technical support at suppliers to ensure part reliability.
• Work with engineering, procurement, and production to ensure high quality parts and services.
• Analyze quality metrics to identify trends and root causes.
• Collaborate to eliminate recurring non-conformances and drive supplier improvements.
• Review supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems, including onboarding and audits.
• Provide feedback on manufacturing methods during supplier product lifecycle.
• Execute non-conformance management processes (SDR, MRB, RTV, CAPA).
• Support containment actions to mitigate flight risk and drive root cause analysis.
• Build cross-functional relationships to reduce and eliminate impacts from vendor defects.
• Assist in developing policies, standards, processes, and documentation.

Skills

Vendor management

Cross-functional liaison

Data analytics

Lean concepts

Statistical data analysis

GD&T

MS Office

Education

High school diploma or equivalency certificate

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or supply chain

Tools

AS9100

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Supplier Quality Specialist to strengthen the Starship supply chain. You will own non-conformances, drive corrective actions with vendors, and partner with engineering and procurement to ensure high-quality parts and processes.

You’ll analyze quality metrics, lead containment actions, and help implement new supplier programs to reduce defects and risk. Occasional travel may be required.