Job Description
SMT supervisors oversee PCB and PCBA production for Starlink satellites, transitioning from prototyping to full-scale manufacturing. This role ensures product quality and flow, solving bottlenecks in efficiency improvements. Supervisors use ERP systems, wiring diagrams, and GD&T to lead teams in lean methods like Kaizen and Failure Mode Effects Analysis.
SpaceX advances Mars habitation, operating factories for Starlink's satellite constellation delivering global internet. Teams emphasize ownership in design, build, test, and operation phases. Operations span automotive harnesses and electro-mechanical assemblies.
Responsibilities include scheduling technicians, coaching reviews, collaborating on priorities, driving root-cause investigations, and optimizing metrics. Interactions involve engineers, leadership, and team members. Hands-on assembly may be required. A constraint is working 1st or 2nd shifts, extended hours, lifting 25 pounds, and repetitive tasks.
Compensation ranges from $105,000 to $135,000 annually. Location is SpaceX sites. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), disability, life insurance, parental leave, 3 weeks vacation, 10+ holidays, stock options, and perks. Non-exempt get Washington sick leave.
Supervisors need high school diploma or equivalent, 5+ years in manufacturing/testing or bachelor's, 1+ year leading teams or projects. Preferred: Lean/Six Sigma green belt, manufacturing training, cost equation monitoring, proficiency in drawings and schematics, Microsoft Office, shop floor software.
Further duties encompass leading corrective actions, establishing metrics for training, efficiency, defect reduction, downtime minimization.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate technicians’ schedules, processes, safety, standards
- Lead, coach, mentor technicians with reviews and actions
- Lead transition from development to production
- Prioritize work based on schedules and goals
- Drive continuous improvement, risk reduction, root-cause analysis
- Analyze metrics for training, flow, efficiency, defects, downtime
- Ensure product quality and conformance
- Review manufacturability plans
- Perform hands-on assembly when required
Requirements
- High school degree or equivalency
- 5+ years of professional experience in manufacturing/testing or a Bachelor’s Degree
- 1+ years of experience leading a team or project
- Preferred: Lean/Six Sigma green belt
- Experience with lean manufacturing and efficiency methods
- Experience with harnessing, electro-mechanical assembly, prototype development
- Monitoring total cost equations
- Design for manufacturability knowledge including Kaizen, Lean, Failure Mode Effects Analysis
- Ability to read drawings, diagrams, GD&T, procedures
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, ERP, related programs
- Rapid role changes in high-paced environments