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Production Engineer â Dragon Propulsion SpaceX
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Production Engineer â€" Dragon Propulsion
Manufacturing and Production Engineering | Hawthorne, CA, United States
Production Engineer â€" Dragon Propulsion
SpaceX is a US based space technology company founded by its residing CEO and CTO, Elon Musk, the former co-founder of PayPal. The company's goal is to renew a sense of excellence in the space industry by disrupting the current paradigm of complacency and replacing it with innovation and commercialized price points; laying the foundation for a truly space-faring human civilization.
SpaceX builds rockets and spacecraft from the ground up; including electronics, software, vehicle structures, and engines. In-house development includes nearly all flight critical custom components amounting to approximately 85% of our vehicles both by mass and by value. Our development and production efforts represent some of the most dynamic and challenging technology problems seen in any organization.
Our success is driven by a wide variety of engineering perspectives and openness to all great ideas. We pride ourselves on being a meritocracy where employees are defined by their capabilities and contributions, instead of title or tenure. We are actively seeking the best and brightest minds from all industries to continue to build our world class team.
Our employees thrive in a fast-paced engineering ecosystem focused on innovation and high levels of personal responsibility. At SpaceX we cut through the noise and believe in the essentials of hardcore engineering.
We build it, test it, and fly it.
The Department
Manufacturing/Production â€" One of the most critical needs we now have at SpaceX is for Manufacturing/Production engineers. With two vehicles flight proven, we have a $3 billion backlog of sold flights. The next critical phase is proving our ability to build rockets with increasing speed while maintaining quality in order to meet the markets high demand. We are looking to add production engineers throughout the company.
The Job
Responsibilities
- Lead the production, assembly, and integration of the Dragon Propulsion Fluid System and/or Thermal Control System correctly, on schedule, and within budget.
- Create and maintain a build schedule that lists all discrete fabrication and assembly tasks. Ensure that all parts are fabricated or purchased at the correct time to facilitate the build schedule.
- Work closely with design engineers, internal machine shops, and external vendors to make parts that are designed for manufacturability and built on schedule.
- Resolve and analyze manufacturing discrepancies and interface with the quality team (resolving issues for design, fabrication, and assembly).
- Develop production procedures/processes and manage the transition of parts and assemblies from development to production.
- Run process improvement projects to continuously improve production processes on the shop floor.
- Support system level testing of the vehicle such as proof and leak testing, fluid flow testing, and functional checkouts.
- Resource management, planning, coordinating and interfacing with (and impacting/improving) our own home-built Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
Requirements
- B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or Manufacturing Engineering or similar discipline.
- Technically well-rounded and displays a proficiency in the basic principles of compressible and incompressible flow, thermodynamics, thermochemistry, mechanics, and materials.
- Design and analysis (Finite Element Analysis (FEA)/structural/static loads) experience.
- Must be highly self-motivated and organized with strong written and oral communication skills.
- Must be able to work well in an integrated team including daily interactions with technicians, engineers, and managers.
- M.S. Degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or Manufacturing Engineering or similar discipline preferred.
- Experience with liquid spacecraft and/or aircraft propulsion systems.
- Process development, facility and line layouts, PFMEA, Error-Proofing, Lean Manufacturing.
- 2 - 5+ years' experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience with taking products from launch into production.
- Experience with Design for Manufacturability and Assembly.
- Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T), Unigraphics (UGS) and Teamcenter CAD, and ERP/PDM systems is desired.
- Knowledge of metallic or fluid system manufacturing techniques, processes, equipment, and other processes such as: machining, orbital tube welding, and tube bending.
SpaceX offers one of the best environments in the world for employees to learn, build real working systems and tackle exciting challenges every day. We operate in a fun, casual work environment and have great benefits including: competitive salary, stock options, medical/dental insurance and free gym memberships. By joining the SpaceX team, you are not just a part of history, you are making it.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resource Department at (310) 363-6000.
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
SpaceX
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| Web Site: | www.spacex.com |
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| Headquarters: | 12301 Crenshaw Boulevard Hawthorne, CA 90250 United States |
| Industry: | Industrial |
