Build Specialist (Super Heavy Booster)
SpaceX· Ship Integration Engineering
Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Build Specialist position based at SpaceX Starbase, TX, focused on establishing and optimizing manufacturing/build processes for the Super Heavy Booster program, collaborating with production leadership, engineers, and technicians to ensure quality, efficiency, and manufacturability.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate and work with the production leadership team by driving engineering standards for excellence in the builds (quality, build improvements, order of operations, etc.)
- Interface with engineers and technicians to advance and streamline manufacturing flow; eliminate unnecessary scope, downtime, and blockers
- Create and manage tools to communicate schedule; identify critical path/dependencies, and track progress, build over build
- Review and triage work order feedback; work with process planning to drive necessary incorporation on in-process work orders and next engineering master’s revisions
- Support the first build process development for new and changing assembly designs that can include process and equipment design, physical operations, and development builds
- Identify the need for shop aids and tooling that will increase work center productivity
- Identify and implement shop floor layout improvements as well as storage and organizational improvements
- Routinely broadcast status, milestones, and roadmap of projects to stakeholders
- Resolve manufacturing issues, disposition nonconforming parts, modify bills of materials, perform root cause analysis, and implement robust corrective actions
- Implement standard practices, troubleshooting guides, and standard repair procedures
- Evaluate proposed designs and planning for manufacturability and integration by collaborating with build, design, and build reliability engineers
- Provide recommendations for tooling design and improvement based on analysis and data
- Design tooling for new and existing products to support rate production
- Create high-quality work orders, engineering masters, and other manufacturing resource planning
- Streamline existing production builds to minimize cost while improving quality and efficiency
- Manage resources, plan, and interface with other production groups including external vendors, manufacturing engineers, and technicians
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalency certificate and 2+ years of professional experience in a hands-on manufacturing environment; OR Bachelor's degree in an engineering, math, or science discipline
Skills
Required:Manufacturing process planningRoot cause analysis
Nice to have:Tooling design
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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