Manager, NDE Operations (Starship Mechanisms)
Required skills
- NDE supervisors
- NDE specialists
- NDE inspectors
- production
- manufacturing
- quality
- metrics
- feedback
- training
- NASA 5009
Nice to have
- flight hardware
- development hardware
- Eddy current
- Radiography
- Dye penetrant
- Visual inspection
Role summary
SpaceX is seeking an experienced Manager of NDE Operations for its Starship Mechanisms team. This role involves leading a team of NDE supervisors, specialists, and inspectors to perform complex inspections on Starship hardware, ensuring quality and efficiency in production. The manager will focus on process improvements, team development, performance assessment, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and production teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in NDE or quality-focused organizations, with at least 3 years of leadership experience in manufacturing environments. This dynamic role requires adaptability to changing requirements and a commitment to fostering a positive, safe, and productive work environment.
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, NDE OPERATIONS (STARSHIP MECHANISMS)
The Manager of Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) Operations leads the team, which performs complex inspection operations on SpaceX hardware. In this role, you'll oversee and advance Starship’s mechanisms, components, and welding build centers, focusing on producing large stainless-steel structures and sub-assemblies for orbital and interplanetary variants of the rocket’s stages.
Key responsibilities include quality of the hardware and understanding how inspections performed ensure and enable hardware quality is critical. The leader will be responsible for ensuring that inspectors are available when needed and that inspections are performed in a timely and efficient manner. Inspection should not hold up the flow of hardware unless flaws are found and corrective actions are necessary.
SpaceX is a very dynamic environment, as an organization that always challenges itself to do newer and more difficult things. This leader must be able to adapt to rapidly changing requirements, schedule pressures, and shifts in company focus. This position requires a strong people manager, who enables SpaceX to achieve its goals by investing in the people who work here, providing career growth opportunities, and valuable feedback to all team members.
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Pay range:
Manager: $140,000.00 - $180,000.00/per year
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees accrue paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual, carryover, and use requirements of the law.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
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 reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com.
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