Production Director (Starship)
On-siteStarbase, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Oversee strategic and tactical execution of Starbase Production Operations to consistently achieve manifest milestones while managing overall staff and direct reports. Collaborate extensively with engineering leaders to ensure vehicle development meets critical timelines without impacting launch schedules, adapting to changing priorities in a fast-moving environment. Maintain productive relationships across departments, champion continuous improvement projects using metrics and data, and lead a high-performance culture focused on safety and process excellence. Think creatively to question the status quo while maintaining prescribed quality standards. This hands-on leadership role requires diving deep into unique engineering challenges at unprecedented scale to build flight-ready vehicles for human life on Mars.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering field
- At least 8+ years of experience in a production/military/automotive environment
- 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing/engineering leadership role
- 2+ years of experience in a managerial role overseeing indirect reports
- Must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet critical deliverable and launch/test schedule timelines
- Able to travel for short and extended trips as needed (up to 10% travel)
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national
- Must be a U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder)
- Must be a Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157
- Must be an Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158
- Must be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Desired Qualifications
- Proven track record of building, motivating, mentoring, and coaching high performance manufacturing teams
- Technical project management experience
- Excellent technical expertise and judgement across multiple engineering disciplines permitting peer-level review of your team's work product
- Creative problem solving that can bring multiple disciplines together
- Ability to assess risk and make development decisions without all available data
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with direct experience negotiating integrated system trades between various stakeholders
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and external customers or vendors
- Highly detail oriented and passionate about advancing the commercial space industry
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
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