Manager, Operations Engineering

Operations Engineering Manager

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. This leader will be responsible for optimizing operations, conducting strategic planning, aligning resources to priorities, and assessing progress toward targets for our critical facilities in Hawthorne, CA. They will lead a team of highly skilled engineers, schedulers, and data analysts who proactively identify and address operational challenges, implement industrial engineering practices, derive actionable information from data, and synchronize work priorities across our campus. Scope includes managing internal department priorities and resources and synchronizing efforts with cross functional partners.

Responsibilities :

• Manage a team of operations engineers, industrial engineers, and data analysts to focus them on the company's most critical problems. Manage their development and career progression to become SpaceX people-leaders.
• Align people, processes, products, parts, and physical plants to meet ambitious safety, quality, output, and efficiency targets.
• Conduct operations engineering at a strategic level by optimizing resources, schedules, and risk under uncertainty across SpaceX production and launch.
• Analyze complex problems involving multiple stakeholders, driving toward optimal solutions in an uncertain and ambiguous future landscape.
• Manage the development of advanced tools to analyze delivery, capacity, costs vs benefits, supply chain, and operations to guide executive decisions in anticipation of change.
• Leverage operational data to identify trends, propose leading indicators, and provide predictive information to steer executive decisions.
• Lead inter-disciplinary and cross-functional teams to develop and manage production strategy, mitigate future risks, and seize emerging opportunities.
• Identify operational challenges within the organization, lead problem formulation, determine root cause, and implement creative and effective solutions.
• Develop key performance measures, and identify decision points and actions to optimize production to meet demand, ensuring measured parameters correlate with overall company objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-departmental partners in supply chain, engineering, operations, and finance groups to synchronize efforts.
• Capture best practices of production systems and manage organizational knowledge and lessons-learned.
• Manage production workforce development efforts to ensure technicians and engineers are trained, qualified, and incentivized to perform their assigned roles.

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