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Original Job Post

SpaceX · 2 days ago

Operations Engineer (Recovery)

Cape Canaveral, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$95K/yr - $115K/yr

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Responsibilities

Determine vessel and resource allocations to meet the SpaceX launch manifest while allowing time for vessel and equipment maintenance and repairs.

Align people, processes, products, parts, and physical plant to meet ambitious targets for safety, quality, output, and efficiency.

Develop and implement information management strategy to maintain accurate information regarding operations, assets, and targets.

Conduct Operations Engineering at a strategic level by optimizing resources, schedules, and risk under uncertainty across SpaceX Recovery and Launch.

Analyze complex problems involving multiple stakeholders, driving towards optimal solutions in an uncertain and ambiguous future landscape. Development advanced tools to analyze scheduling, capacity, costs vs benefits, maintenance, 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 Department actions. Use data to provide insights and optimize processes.

Lead inter-disciplinary and cross-functional teams to develop recovery strategy, mitigate future risks, and seize emerging opportunities.

Identify operational challenges within the organization, lead problem formulation and working groups, determine root cause, and implement creative and effective solutions.

Develop key performance measures, and identify decision points and actions to optimize processes to meet demand, ensuring measured parameters correlate with overall company objectives.

Collaborate with cross-departmental partners in integration, finance, purchasing, inventory, quality/reliability engineering, safety, and Launch Operations. Interact frequently with external partners including vendors, compliance agencies, US Coast Guard, port authorities, and others.

Capture best practices and manage organizational knowledge and lessons-learned and track action towards resolution.

Analyze workforce development efforts to ensure mariners, technicians, and engineers are trained, qualified, and incentivized to perform their assigned roles.

Qualification

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OperationsMaritimeAerospaceTransportationManufacturingExtended hoursWeekendsDomestic travelMerchant Marine Credential (MMC)Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)Air Force background checksCape CanaveralVandenbergData analysisStatisticsCost/benefit analysisData visualizationDiscrete event modelingResource allocationRisk managementProblem-solvingHard-workingCommunicationAutonomous workPrioritization

Required

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.

Professional experience working on operations in maritime, aerospace, transportation, or manufacturing industry.

Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed, including occasional short-notice domestic travel.

Must possess or be eligible for Merchant Marine Credential (MMC) and Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC).

Must be able to pass Air Force background checks for Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg.

Preferred

Experience with data-based decision making, modeling of complex systems, and framing executive decisions supported by engineering analysis.

Experience or education in Management Science and Engineering, Operations Engineering, Operations Research, or Industrial Engineering.

Proficiency with statistics, data analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and visualization tools.

Experience with data visualization tools, discrete event modeling tools, data queries and analysis.

Ability to work in fast-paced, high-stress environments.

Excellent written and executive communication skills.

Ability to work autonomously, prioritize work, and make resource allocation recommendations that involve risk and uncertainty.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Short & long-term disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Various other discounts and perks

3 weeks of paid vacation

10 or more paid holidays per year

5 days of sick leave per year

Company

SpaceX

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SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that focuses on reducing the costs associated with space travel by using reusable rockets.

Founded in 2002

Hawthorne, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

https://www.spacex.com

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