Supply Chain Planner (Falcon, Dragon, & Starfall)
SpaceX· Dragon Supply Chain
Hawthorne, CA$85k - $100kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Cross-functional supply chain planner role supporting SpaceX production flow, launch manifest, and development goals across Falcon, Dragon, and Starfall programs. Responsible for MRP, delivery management, dock-to-stock, and inventory management with in-house integration and close collaboration with engineering and manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Plan, lead, improve, and execute against pre-established sourcing strategies with metrics tracking and results from end-to-end perspective for business and production success
- Maintain accurate configuration of assemblies (BOMs)
- Ensure accurate lead times and inventory levels (including spares) to mitigate risk of production piece part shortages
- Facilitate technical discussions, make vs. buy decisions, launch new product introductions, and conduct should-cost modeling to ensure optimal purchase order issuance and execution
- Execute risk management analysis which take into consideration past performance data, demand vs. supply, and lead time stack-ups from piece part to launch vehicle integration
- Optimize logistics, manufacturing, quality, ordering/redistribution policies, and refurbishment/reusability planning and buying for the parts that you own
- Support supplier facilities visits to identify and leverage equipment and expertise with an emphasis on meeting cost, quality, and delivery goals with strategic suppliers
- Lead commercial and quality Initiatives, and spearhead initiatives to improve performance with teams that execute the strategic sourcing vision of the supply chain team
- Be the “go to” resource for engineering, supply chain, production, and build reliability stakeholders to determine the best value sourcing, NPI sourcing plans, turn-key or buy complete strategies, logistics and lead time optimizations, etc.
- Build cross functional teams and champion continuous improvement initiatives to meet or exceed cost, quality, and delivery goals
- Proactively provide status and updates to SpaceX management and engineering teams on all critical supply issues
- Conduct design for manufacturability reviews with support from supplier quality and engineering teams and strategic suppliers
- Champion value adds value engineering projects to improve part quality and reduce cost
- Execute to a supplier bid-list with preferred suppliers
- Mitigate sole/single source risk and ensure continuity of supply
- Develop and maintain strong relationships (internal to SpaceX and external suppliers)
- Assess and leverage supplier technical capability, equipment, capacity, and risk in procurement
- Place POs for MRP planning messages for production parts and via email signals, if required
- Diagnose and resolve purchase order discrepancies and invoice issues
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of experience working in Engineering, Purchasing, Contract negotiation, Material or production planning, Operations or supply chain management, Material cost control, Master production scheduling OR 4+ years of experience in one or more of these areas
Skills
Nice to have:problem-solvingleadership and team buildingLean / continuous improvementreading drawings and blueprintssupplier relationshipsvalue engineeringanalytical and organizational skillsnegotiationcommunicationtechnical tools ( MS Office, VBA, Smartsheet, SQL, Confluence, JIRA, Power BI)
Benefits
- Long-term incentives (stock or cash awards)
- Discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10+ paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave per company policy
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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