Environmental & Thermal Control Engineer (Dragon)
SpaceX
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ENVIRONMENTAL & THERMAL CONTROL ENGINEER (DRAGON)
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own piece parts and assembled propulsion and/or environmental and thermal sub-systems throughout the manufacturing process with a focus on delivery to meet Dragon rate and USDV delivery timelines while maintaining safety and part quality
- Develop and qualify new processes to take products from design to production
- Resolve manufacturing discrepancies for all owned parts and processes by collaborating with the design engineering, production, and quality teams
- Support day-to-day production of assemblies, high-pressure testing, and integration of hardware
- Identify, plan, and execute capital equipment, machine, and layout upgrades to the meet volume production demand
- Find and eliminate process waste, streamline production processes, and enable continuous improvement
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
- 1+ years of hands-on experience driving the design, building, testing, manufacturing, or development of mechanical components or systems
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Master's degree in aerospace, mechanical, systems, or manufacturing engineering
- Experience with design for manufacturability and assembly
- Experience with welding, machining, and coating process
- Knowledge of principles of chemistry, engineering, fluid dynamics, and mechanics of materials
- Experience conducting pressure and leak testing using instrumentation such as helium mass spectrometers, flow meters, pressure transducers, and thermocouples
- Experience with capacity modeling, process mapping, and fault analysis
- Experience performing pareto analysis, root cause and corrective action experience
- Experience performing PFMEAs
- Familiarity with CAD and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) experience
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Position may require extended work hours and weekend work
- Position requires working directly with hardware on the floor for extended periods of time
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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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