Senior Manufacturing Engineer I/II – Assembly, Integration and TestPosted today

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

  • Prepare feasibility studies, conduct manufacturing technology Research and Development projects

  • Partner with our Design Engineering teams to incorporate Design for: Manufacture into our products to ensure robustness and manufacturability at scale

  • Engineer and deliver our factories: design, procure, install, validate assembly, test and verification processes

  • Support Development builds to uncover early learnings and resolve issues to accelerate the production ramp up

  • Take engineering ownership of production lines to remove blockers, improve yield and increase build efficiency

  • Triage and diagnose failures, conduct deep technical investigations and: determine the right path forward including risk mitigation actions and root cause resolution

What they're looking for

  • Collaborate with cross functional teams to resolve complex issues
  • Drive process improvements across manufacturing, test and integration
  • Contribute to change management, assessing risk and impact of design or process changes
  • Support business system and process improvements to drive increased: organizational effectiveness and efficiency