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Sourcing Specialist, Natural Gas

SpaceX· Supply Chain - Launch and Infrastructure
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Cape Canaveral, FLfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Operationally focused procurement role in SpaceX's supply chain, with emphasis on natural gas utilities, pipelines, and related equipment. Responsible for developing sourcing strategies, supplier management, cost reduction, contract execution, and cross-functional collaboration to support SpaceX programs and ensure on-time delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Create capital sourcing strategies to reduce risk, enable continuous cost reduction, and align with company strategy on payment terms, cash targets, on-time delivery, and cost savings
  • Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to evaluate sourcing models and optimize the value of products and services that support business requirements
  • Maintain continuous cost reduction programs
  • Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies
  • Ensure the health of the supply base by evaluating and selecting suppliers based on capability, quality, reliability, and price competitiveness
  • Conduct comprehensive supplier analysis to formulate a strategic sourcing plan that identifies new/suitable suppliers, optimizes cost models, and proactively ensures continuity of supply based on upcoming new product introduction campaign requirements
  • Maintain vendor delivery of goods and services
  • Execute purchasing transactions within the scope area by issuing purchase orders for SpaceX programs and ensuring delivery
  • Identify and execute cost reduction projects, including planning, stakeholder coordination, timeline management, and project updates
  • Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories, anticipate strategic opportunities, and keep key stakeholders informed
  • Direct and execute initiatives that support aggressive improvements in supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, enhanced service levels, improved coordination, delivery, pricing, lead-times, payment, risk compliance, and other areas as identified
  • Benchmark, track, and analyze annual performance metrics and sourcing trends against budget on a monthly basis to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress against strategic objectives
  • Drive make vs. buy decisions for new products, implement the strategy across the product lifecycle from development, qualification, first article runs through stable production
  • Execute requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposal (RFPs), document bid events through correspondence to suppliers; conduct supplier negotiations and ongoing contract management
  • Administer multimillion-dollar contracts and independently negotiate suppliers’ contract terminology, pricing, technical requirements, scope, and terms involving responsibility, liability, indemnification, intellectual property, and export compliance

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or 4+ years of experience working in one or more of the following: Engineering, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Contract negotiation, Material or production planning, Operations management, Material cost control, Master production scheduling

Skills

Required:Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experienceContract negotiationCost analysisSupplier relationship management
Nice to have:Data analysis (Excel, SQL, PowerBI)
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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