Senior CNC Machinist/ProgrammerActive
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
Work with large CNC machines to produce carbon fiber components for our Neutron rocket.
Use Mastercam to program safe and efficient toolpaths
Machine a range of tooling materials to produce large composite molds and tools to support production
Design and manufacture fixtures and tooling to enable machining of components
Read and translate drawings/CAD models
Develop and improve manufacturing processes
What they're looking for
- Be responsible for sourcing and testing new tooling solutions to improve productivity
- Provide feedback to Engineering to improve manufacturability
- Work to identify and reduce any non-conformances
- Provide improvement ideas on batch sizes, setups, tool selection etc
