Manager, Operations Engineering

Space

X 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 Space

X is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

This leader will be responsible for optimizing operations, conducting strategic planning, aligning resources to priorities, and assessing progress toward targets for our critical facilities in Hawthorne, CA. They will lead a team of highly skilled engineers, schedulers, and data analysts who proactively identify and address operational challenges, implement industrial engineering practices, derive actionable information from data, and synchronize work priorities across our campus.

Scope includes managing internal department priorities and resources and synchronizing efforts with cross functional partners.

• Manage a team of operations engineers, industrial engineers, and data analysts to focus them on the company’s most critical problems. Manage their development and career progression to become Space
  
  X people-leaders.
• Align people, processes, products, parts, and physical plants to meet ambitious safety, quality, output, and efficiency targets.
• Conduct operations engineering at a strategic level by optimizing resources, schedules, and risk under uncertainty across Space
  
  X production and launch.
• Analyze complex problems involving multiple stakeholders, driving toward optimal solutions in an uncertain and ambiguous future landscape.
• Manage the development of advanced tools to analyze delivery, capacity, costs vs benefits, supply chain, and operations to guide executive decisions in anticipation of change.
• Leverage operational data to identify trends, propose leading indicators, and provide predictive information to steer executive decisions.
• Lead inter‑disciplinary and cross‑functional teams to develop and manage production strategy, mitigate future risks, and seize emerging opportunities.
• Identify operational challenges within the organization, lead problem formulation, determine root cause, and implement creative and effective solutions.
• Develop key performance measures, and identify decision points and actions to optimize production to meet demand, ensuring measured parameters correlate with overall company objectives.
• Collaborate with cross‑departmental partners in supply chain, engineering, operations, and finance groups to synchronize efforts.
• Capture best practices of production systems and manage organizational knowledge and lessons‑learned.
• Manage production workforce development efforts to ensure technicians and engineers are trained, qualified, and incentivized to perform their assigned roles.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following:
  Engineering, Production operations, Supply chain management, Military operations.
• 1+ years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.

• Experience or education in management science and engineering, operations engineering, operations research, or industrial engineering.
• Experience with data‑based decision making, modeling of complex systems, and framing executive decisions supported by engineering analysis.
• Ability to work in fast‑paced, high‑stress environments.
• Excellent written and executive communication skills.
• Proficiency with statistics, data analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and visualization.
• Experience with data visualization tools, discrete event modeling tools, data queries and analysis.
• Experience leading in a developmental manufacturing environment, in aerospace production, or in a dynamic multi‑dimensional industry.
• Ability to work autonomously, prioritize work, and make resource allocation recommendations that involve risk and uncertainty.

• Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed, including occasional short‑notice domestic travel.

Pay range:

Operations Engineering/Manager: $ - $ per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a…