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Lead Production Technician, Solar Cells (Starlink)

SpaceX· AI Satellite Solar Production
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Lead a team in the solar cell production line (Starlink) to run assigned areas from texturing through test, ensuring safety, output, quality, and process efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of production technicians and associates to hit daily safety, output, and quality targets. Schedule and assign the work through the shift, and still run texturing, PECVD, PVD, metallization, and test equipment
  • Execute startup and shutdown, run shift handover, and hold process parameters in the released window; identify deviations and take corrective action
  • Complete in-process inspections, data logging, and quality checks, including PL, AOI, and IV testing support, and keep production records current in the manufacturing execution system
  • Work with maintenance and engineering on downtime root cause, coordinate preventive maintenance and calibration, and help write and refine operating procedures to reduce cost and downtime, and raise yield
  • Enforce safety, quality, cleanroom, and 5S standards; confirm daily audit checklists for safety, cleanliness, tool traceability, and process adherence
  • Train production associates and technicians on process flow, work instructions, and internal SpaceX systems; provide regular feedback on output, efficiency, quality, and safety, and partner with the supervisor on performance feedback

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalency certificate
  • 2+ years of professional experience in a hands-on manufacturing environment
  • 1+ years training technicians or associates, or leading a team on a production shift

Skills

Required:Team leadershipProcess monitoring and quality controlEquipment operation (texturing, PECVD, PVD, metallization, test)

Benefits

  • (Not explicitly listed in the provided text)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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