Support Launch manifest planning and change management. Help maintain a current picture of the launch plan, assess the effect of changes, and recommend decisions so the manifest stays achievable.

Give daily visibility, weekly status, and monthly reviews of manifest and operations performance, including where the plan is at risk and what has to move.

Translate the manifest into capacity, schedule, and resource demand for pads, recovery, vehicle maintenance and operations, production, and test. Close gaps with those teams before they become launch slips.

Create feedback loops from manifest execution into requirements for minimal viable products and future proven-system designs.

Build a deep understanding of the launch ecosystem (teams, hardware, production floor, environment, process, systems, tools, and constraints) and turn that into quantified, executable improvements.

Integrate, organize, standardize, and relate operational data. Turn data into insights, reports, and alerts that support manifest and operational decisions.

Develop and track key performance metrics, spot decision points, and recommend actions that optimize production and engineering against the manifest and launch targets.

Read trends and operating metrics, brief leadership, set or adjust launch strategy and targets, and work with teams to act on what the data shows.

Give day-to-day tactical recommendations on scheduling and execution in support of the manifest.

Identify, develop, and implement process improvements. Run process engineering, value-stream mapping, and automation, and roll best practices out to internal and external stakeholders in priority order.

Solve engineering problems aimed at safety, reliability, and rate, where those constraints limit the manifest.

Partner with finance and launch teams to build and execute the annual operating plan, run capital-expenditure return-on-investment trades, and find and capture operating-expense reductions, tied to what the manifest requires.

Sr. Operations Engineer, Launch Strategy (Falcon)

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

SpaceX

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