Engineer The Future
SpaceX is a U.S.-based advanced technology company founded by residing CEO and CTO, Elon Musk. Founded in 2002, SpaceX builds rockets and spacecraft from the ground up, including cutting edge electronics, software, vehicle structures, and engine systems. The Falcon Launch Vehicle and Dragon Spacecraft programs are some of the most ambitious engineering systems in the world, designed to support our ultimate goals of aviation-like spaceflight capability and making humanity a multi-planet species. Our team is made up of more than 3,000 SpaceXers located across our Hawthorne, California headquarters; and other facilities in Florida, Texas, and Washington, DC.
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This is SpaceX. We are not like most companies. Our goal is to do what has never before been done--enabling mankind to live on other planets. We push the boundaries of what is currently possible, and understand it takes rare individuals to help us make this happen. We celebrate our successes, and each other. We seek future colleagues with a rare mix of drive, passion, scrappiness, intelligence, and curiosity to seek what’s beyond the stars.
Playing a direct role in advancing the course of human history is no small endeavor. Join us, and find your place in the SpaceX legacy.
Maintenance Manager
Overview:
- SpaceX Ground Support Equipment (GSE) employees work in a fast-paced environment and are responsible for the design, analysis, construction, commissioning, modifications, and maintenance of test stands and infrastructure to allow propulsion and structural component and system level testing at our Texas Rocket Development Facility. As we increase our testing rate to meet the demands associated with our launch manifest, the Maintenance Manager will lead a team in identifying and eliminating recurring and novel technical issues to improve long-term maintenance strategies to be implemented around site. The goal of this team is to maintain the quality and performance of stands and facilities during testing to ensure safe, economical, and reliable access to space.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the test stand and facilities preventive and corrective maintenance team with an approach that results in maximum test stand and other asset availability
- Report directly to the Ground Support Equipment Director, understand the expectations from a wider business perspective, and translate these expectations into a positive maintenance strategy and an effective team, and report back on performance and asset availability
- Perform day-to-day administrative and management tasks including performance reviews, skills matrix and training, timecard approvals, and recruiting
- Ensure the varied trades, shifts, and team members are in communication, coordinated, have the proper balance of skills, and are contributing to the overall technical strategy
- Coach the maintenance team to think strategically about downtime prevention and long-term resolution of issues
- Lead the team by example in fault finding, maintenance strategy, and personal presentation
- Maintain organized, efficient, and presentable team workspaces
- Organize multi-month work plans and also react with real-time plans based on the criticality of equipment to company goals
- Ensure spare parts inventory is managed to allow rapid response to critical technical events
- Establish root cause of technical incidents and work to eliminate recurrences
- Catch and eliminate recurring problems, in cooperation with asset owners and responsible engineers
- Identify opportunities where condition-based monitoring can successfully predict failure
- Create and improve preventive maintenance strategies and tasks
- Raise and justify asset improvement projects to ensure long-term sustainability of the maintenance process
- Support Project Engineers with large equipment refurbishments and new asset introduction
- Advise and support other teams on complex issue resolution
Basic Qualifications:
- B.S. degree in a related engineering discipline, or exceptional insight and creative understanding of the subject matter
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in maintenance supervision or maintenance engineering or demonstrable creative insight into team management techniques
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Demonstrable hands-on skill in troubleshooting, fault finding, problem resolution, and breakdown management
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Ability to bring multiple departments with different priorities together and steer them to a common goal
- Proficient with Microsoft Office products and capable of quickly learning a variety of scheduling and other proprietary software
- Work with a computerized maintenance management system
- A role where quick-thinking and problem solving played a critical role
- Knowledge of high pressure and cryogenic fluid systems and components
- Experience with piping and pressure vessels per ASME code, work with flanges, gaskets, fasteners
- Machining, welding, other fabrication techniques, and general hands-on experience
- Knowledge of instrumentation, data acquisition & control systems, and high power electrical systems
Additional Requirements:
- General physical fitness is required for some work areas, flight hardware typically is built in tight quarters and physical dexterity is required
- Physical effort including standing, lifting, and carrying light weight such as materials or equipment
- Frequent exposure to work in outdoor environments including heat, cold, and rain
- Work in industrial environments with fumes/odors, noise, hazardous chemicals, confined spaces
- Ability to work in a high-concentration, high-stress environment, under possible extended work hours
ITAR Requirements:
- 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. Learn more about ITAR here.
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, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department at (310) 363-6000.
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