Manufacturing Engineer - NightshiftActive

Rocket Lab
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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 & Integration: Mechanical, Assembly, Propulsion, Mechanical Test

  • Avionics & Test: Electronics manufacturing, electrical test, debugging systems

  • Composites: Advanced materials, resins, ablatives, sandwich structures

  • Machining  – CNC programming, precision manufacturing, GD&T

  • Day Week (Mon–Thurs) | Late Start | Long Weekends, Every Week

  • Hours: 3:00 PM: 1:30 AM

What they're looking for

  • Own & Ship: Become the expert on products you help build and launch
  • Help teams hit production goals while maintaining quality
  • Improve existing products and support new designs
  • Solve & Fix: Investigate why things fail and implement fixes