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Build Specialist (Starship)

SpaceX· Ship Integration Engineering
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Build Specialist role at SpaceX Starbase focused on driving manufacturing excellence, process development, and tooling for Starship production in a challenging outdoor coastal environment.

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:Engineering standards enforcementManufacturing flow optimizationProject and schedule managementRoot cause analysisTooling design and development
Nice to have:Bill of Materials modification
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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