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Supplier Quality Specialist (Starship Supply Chain)

SpaceX· Starship Components Supply Chain
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Hawthorne, CA$85k - $135kfull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Supplier Quality Specialist supporting Starship Supply Chain at SpaceX, focused on improving vendor performance, non-conformance management, and quality processes to ensure high-quality parts and services with a stable supply chain.

Responsibilities

  • Improve the issue ticket landscape as it pertains to our specific products.
  • Dissect the issue ticket landscape, and identify specific actions to improve vendor performance.
  • Own the non-conformances found in production, triage lots, and drive corrective actions with vendors.
  • Partner with the vendors to institute new processes or actions to reduce the amount of issues and reduce supply chain risk.
  • Improve our existing quality management processes while working with vendors to improve their performance.
  • Manage our containment, receiving, and precision inspection non-conformances, and find a path of resolution for the non-conformances that exist. In parallel, identify ways to enhance and update the variables surrounding these processes, to reduce the total issue ticket landscape.
  • Create improvements within SpaceX’s supply base to facilitate a more stable supply chain.
  • Provide technical support onsite at suppliers as appropriate to ensure part reliability.
  • Work closely with engineering, procurement, and production teams to assure high quality parts and services that meet all requirements.
  • Analyze quality metrics to identify trends and pinpoint systemic root causes.
  • Partner with supply chain reliability engineers to eliminate recurring non-conformances and ensure part reliability, including supplier improvement plans.
  • Review and assess supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems, including new supplier onboarding and audit evaluation.
  • Provide feedback as appropriate on manufacturing methods and technologies during supplier product lifecycle.
  • Execute supply chain non-conformance management processes, including SDR, MRB, return to vendor (RTV), supplier corrective and preventive action (CAPA), and production issue ticket review.
  • Support containment actions associated with non-conforming products, including identification of product location, coordination with supply chain reliability engineers to mitigate flight risk and actions required to drive root cause analysis.
  • Cultivate network across SpaceX and build relationships with cross-functional groups to identify, reduce, and ultimately eliminate impacts from vendor defects.
  • Assist the team in developing policies, standards, processes, and documentation as necessary to ensure continued success.

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or supply chain OR 2+ years of professional experience in engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, or quality field in lieu of a degree.

Skills

Nice to have:Communication and cross-functional liaisonUnderstanding of manufacturing processesTechnical domain experience in commodity typesGD&T readingQuality management systemsSupplier quality processesSupplier interface and corrective action systemsSupplier developmentMS OfficeLean, data analytics
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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