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Operations Engineer

SpaceX· Texas - Supply Chain
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McGregor, TXfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Operations engineer on the Process and Material Planning team at the Rocket Development and Test facility, supporting Falcon, Dragon, Raptor, Starship, and Ground Support Equipment programs. Applies engineering principles, data science, and on-the-floor experience to support planning, supply chain, fabrication, and test equipment engineering with a focus on Supply Chain and Planning functions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain tools to analyze delivery, capacity, and cost problems, informing decisions for planning, supply chain, test, and operations, using SQL, Python, and Excel
  • Define and develop department-level metrics that quantify the health of our operation and influence change to positively impact reliability, cost, and agility
  • Design and maintain data visualizations using Grafana and Power BI software tools
  • Support ad-hoc data analysis requests from leadership to drive headcount, labor allocation, cost-saving, and project management decisions
  • Lead process improvement initiatives to minimize waste, increase cost savings, improve safety, increase agility, and eliminate production hurdles
  • Drive alignment with supply chain, test, launch, and fabrications teams at other SpaceX sites across the country to reduce duplicated work
  • Flexibly support planners during times of increased part/process demand
  • Facilitate knowledge transfer when new software functionality is rolled out or fabrication/production best practices are proven

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of experience in a production, manufacturing, operations, or supply chain role
  • 1+ years of experience in using Excel, SQL, or Python for data analysis or project scheduling

Skills

Required:SQLPythonExcel
Nice to have:Data visualizationProcess improvement

Benefits

  • [Not specified in the description]
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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