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Join a pioneering company dedicated to making space exploration a reality! As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring that our suppliers meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. You'll conduct audits, analyze data, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive improvements across the supply chain. This role offers the unique opportunity to be part of a mission that aims to enable human life on Mars, working in a dynamic and challenging environment that values innovation and excellence. If you're ready to tackle complex challenges and make a significant impact in the aerospace industry, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
SUPPLIER QUALITY ENGINEER – Metallic Materials
The Supply Chain team is responsible for the sourcing, planning, procurement, warehousing, and transportation of all raw materials and components needed to build our revolutionary spacecraft and launch vehicles. Our mission is to get the right part in the right place at the right time, every time.
The Quality Assurance, Surveillance team is chartered with global quality surveillance of the supply base, reducing supply chain risk through assessing and monitoring suppliers, and proactively driving needed supplier improvements.
As a Supplier Quality Engineer with the Quality Assurance, Surveillance team, you would assess suppliers and determine if they continue to meet SpaceX technical and production requirements. As needed, you would execute investigations and implement countermeasures to remediate supply chain risk. You would review performance, identify gaps and opportunities around the processes used to manage supplier audits, corrective/preventive actions, and supply chain steering committee reviews, designing and implementing improvements that can be deployed across the SpaceX enterprise. You would also support the commodity teams that see a direct impact from supplier quality related issues, providing quality engineering and technical expertise necessary to solve the most challenging issues. As Quality Assurance, Surveillance activities deal with all areas of SpaceX, you would build an extensive network within design engineering, build reliability, production, and supply chain management, and a deep understanding of SpaceX systems and processes. This experience would enable you to become a critical voice in the development of group and company strategy.
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SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department at (310) 363-6000.