SpaceX needs to capitalize on its technical and market success by executing large-scale projects that will define the bottom line for the company, specifically supporting the Mechanical Commodities used to manufacture the Starlink User Terminals and Ground Stations.
Requirements
- Engineering
- Purchasing
- Contract negotiation
- Material or production planning
- Operations or supply chain management
- Material cost control
- Master production scheduling
- Capital equipment sourcing
- Experience directly negotiating contracts and sourcing global suppliers
- Experience with sourcing from a global supply base, and familiarity interfacing in-person with suppliers around the world.
- Experience within the solar and/or battery field
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage the supply base to support sourcing for the solar and battery space, supplementing the Starlink user terminals and ground stations
- Work directly with key suppliers to develop and implement sourcing and cost management strategies that support existing platforms and new product development
- Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement sourcing and cost management strategies that support capital purchases and production consumables
- Understand the technical aspects of production equipment to identify opportunities for cost, space, and process optimization and use data analytics to identify and parse process related opportunities
- Utilize negotiations to maximize value, cost savings and priority in terms of delivery for SpaceX while lowering risk; manage costs to ensure alignment with program budgets
- Build and own overall project budgets, compile funding requests, and generate capitalization plan based on project timeline focusing on TCO of the categories managed
- Create sourcing strategies to reduce risk, enable continuous cost reduction and align with company strategy on payment terms, cash targets, on time delivery and cost savings
Other
- Provide weekly team status reporting, escalate to management when necessary
- Train and mentor, working to ensure that the team is continuously improving
- Able to travel for short and extended trips as needed - up to 50% work week travel may be required, including international travel
- Must be able to work flexible and extended hours and on weekends as needed
- This position is based in Bastrop, TX and requires being onsite
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
- Ability to prioritize appropriately to meet internal customer and company needs
- Effective written and verbal communications skills, with strong ability to communicate to all levels of internal personnel
- Detail-oriented, self-motivated and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
- Ability to conduct all activities with integrity and urgency
- Build genuine relationships both internally and externally and drive cross-functional teams to achieve consensus
- Present value propositions to SpaceX executives, including those related to contract award, cost reviews, cost reduction strategies and critical supply issues
