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Test Specialist Supervisor (Starship)

SpaceX· Ship Integration Engineering
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Supervise and lead a team of test specialists performing production checkouts on Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, coordinating across integration stations and ensuring safety, quality, and productivity while delivering checkout progress.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise production checkout activity across shop floor stations and cells, including daily schedules, vehicle configuration, and workflow
  • Lead and manage a staff of ~8 test specialists including all performance management related tasks
  • Review test plans, procedures, and as-runs and make change recommendations when needed
  • Assess and vet appropriate skillsets as needed across avionics and propulsion checkouts, leak checks, data review, and test procedure authoring
  • Identify training needs and develop training programs
  • Provide required data and reporting to support departmental metrics and improvement objectives, including checkout durations and safety standard incorporation
  • Monitor labor hours and overtime, and implement improvement plans and time management with staff
  • Accomplish checkout results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job results
  • Effectively organize, assign and track work/deliverables for the team, ensuring seamless progression through multi-shift and multi-station vehicle schedules
  • Initiate and foster a spirit of cooperation within and between departments
  • Ensure checkouts safety, quality, data integrity, and conformance to specifications and flight worthiness requirements
  • Maintain GSE, test equipment, gage, and consumable supply inventory
  • Improve area safety and efficiency through regular auditing and continuous improvement of frequent procedures, including clears, LOTO, and press/vent operations
  • Continuously improve process and manpower efficiency, utilization and productivity

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience in production test, vehicle checkout, or final assembly: aviation, aerospace, mechanical or electrical systems
  • 2+ years of experience in leading a team or a project

Skills

Required:Leadership and team management
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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