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Production Scheduler (Starship Mechanisms)

SpaceX· Starship Mechanisms Technicians
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Hybrid (Hawthorne, CA)$85k - $105kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Production Scheduler for Starship Mechanisms at SpaceX, Hawthorne, CA responsible for creating and maintaining rate-based production schedules, coordinating with multiple departments, optimizing hardware allocation, and driving schedule reliability and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in production scheduling for a given production work center, including identifying need dates for all part shortages and projecting long-term high-level rate needs for the department. Create a rate-based schedule for your hardware, and define/track constraints across your build for the next 6+ missions.
  • Use an established schedule to create and generate stakeholder buy-in on various scenarios to determine optimal hardware allocation between new/refurb hardware that take into account customer needs, current mission manifest, and customer quality requirements.
  • Work with production teams to set, track, and execute daily and weekly goals for the work center that take into account personnel and equipment constraints but support overall rate targets.
  • Build strong relationships with internal suppliers and establish high-accuracy means of communication for both estimated hardware needs and completion dates.
  • Manage the scheduling and prioritization of your hardware at shared resources that are common to multiple departments at SpaceX. Actively negotiate with peers in other departments for correct overall priority, and seek creative solutions that drive the optimal business outcome.
  • Monitor MRP systems and leverage SQL Queries to identify hardware shortages for upcoming builds and lead the charge to pull this hardware into your production area.
  • Identify, develop, and implement opportunities for increased scheduling automation across the Starship Booster Manufacturing department with a focus on reducing the manual operations required to develop, track, and update overall schedules.
  • Drive down near-term and future schedule risk by conducting work-center level capacity analysis, identifying model and communication gaps that cause schedule slips, and leading initiatives (reactive and proactive) that mitigate those risks.
  • Lead efforts to uncover root-cause and develop permanent resolution on issues found during product builds as required to eliminate internal and external blockers to deliver product on time. Drive conversations around assembly-level and integration misalignment.
  • Identify and support improvement opportunities for product yield, quality, safety, cost and team efficiency.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations; OR 3+ years of professional experience with manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience using ERP/MRP systems in a production environment.

Skills

Required:SchedulingERP/MRP systemsSQLCommunication & Stakeholder Management
Nice to have:Continuous Improvement

Benefits

  • 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 according to company policy
  • employee stock purchase opportunities and potential discretionary bonuses
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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