Partner with other supply chain verticals, engineering leadership, and production management to find improvements, set a fast-operating cadence, and retire supply risk before it affects vehicle reliability.

Partner directly with engineering and supply chain leadership to align design requirements, technical improvements, and simpler supply chain processes that remain reliable.

Set strategic and tactical goals and lead the initiatives that meet production and engineering expectations.

Lead supply chain engineering teams against shared cost, quality, and delivery goals, and reset those goals as the program plan changes.

Set the standards suppliers must meet for at-rate delivery and align those standards with supplier leadership.

Own execution from the time the part leaves the supplier until it arrives at the job site or specified production area.

Lead change management for supply chain so conforming parts are introduced on time and at rate.

Identify insource, outsource, and supplier-capacity options that protect rate.

Drive the team to meet its deliverables and expectations and make decisions quickly when the work stalls.

Build reporting procedures and systems that show leadership and the team reliability progress, help needed, and opportunities for improvement.

Identify process, system, and training improvements that produce a measurable result, and delegate execution across the team.

Review KPIs with the team and adjust initiatives to keep the work on plan.

Manager, Supplier Development Engineering

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

SpaceX

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