Manager, Material Flow Engineering (Hawthorne)

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

MANAGER, MATERIAL FLOW  ENGINEERING  (HAWTHORNE)  

The Manager, Material Flow Engineering is the extreme owner leading the design and execution of strategies necessary to ensure seamless material availability from supplier to rocket. The goal of this role is to achieve industry-leading inventory performance and efficiency through innovative lineside inventory design, material routing, and operational excellence.  

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Leadership :  Manage a multi-level  team , consisting of  salaried and hourly engineers, supervisors, technicians, and specialists  support ing  operations spanning nearly 24 hours per day and 7 days per week; assess employee performance, provide constructive feedback, facilitate conflict resolution,   and  maintain extreme accountability.  

• Project Collaboration:  Collaborate with  Build  Engineering,  Operations Engineering,  Production  Leadership,  and Supply Chain teams across SpaceX on critical projects to ensure stakeholder buy-in is achieved and everyone is working towards a common target state. As needed, conduct sessions to keep all cross-functional teams aligned.  

• Role Model  / Mentorship :  Lead by setting an example, taking feedback from  your team,   suppliers, customers, and  all levels of the organization, motivating to achieve the highest level of results.   Actively monitor and grow the workforce, ensuring team members are challenged and performing at   expected standards; work to develop methods to motivate team members to go above and beyond the status quo.  

• Factory and Warehouse Layout Planning:  Develop and implement conceptual and detailed layouts for material flow and storage to achieve targeted inventory levels. Ensure that storage strategies are aligned across the supply chain and achieve maximum desired part density considering all available facility volume. Build and use space capacity models to ensure we have adequate storage solutions.  

• Process Design , Improvement, and  Optimization:  Design and implement innovative strategies for efficient material flow from receipt to lineside and any reverse logistics required. Understand critical part flow categories to develop specific plans that will allow production customers to achieve significant scale. Use value stream mapping to ensure end-to-end process optimization.   Drive the projects and changes needed to ensure operations can maintain and scale rates year-over-year; ut