Composite Technician, all levels - E ShiftNew
The opportunity
Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.
What you'll do
Assembly of structures including setup, bonding and fastener applications
Laminate assemblies by determining proper placement of composite materials
Prepare parts for bagging, including placement of bleeders, thermocouples, probes and vacuum connections
Vacuum bag processing, bonding, and oven/autoclave curing
Making basic layouts on parts or assemblies in order to establish reference: points and to check dimensions using calipers, micrometers, precision scales and torque wrenches
Fitting of Honeycomb, foam and syntactic core
What they're looking for
- Fitting and refurbishment of thermal protection systems.
- Integration of mechanical hardware
- Perform other standard composite and integration building techniques and: practices as industries such as aerospace, space and other composite workplaces demand.
- You may be requested to work on other products for Rocket Lab in the local area or travel as required.