Team Lead - Electron Vehicle DevelopmentActive
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
Lead day-to-day delivery of vehicle engineering projects across structures, mechanisms, and fluids systems
Act as subject matter expert and quality approver for all engineering change: within the Vehicle Development team
Contribute to design reviews, ensuring workflows, processes, and products: meet internal and external standards and best practice
Drive right-first-time GD&T and a lean, efficient approach to project management
Quickly analyse and resolve manufacturing discrepancies and non-conformances
Drive down quality defects and time lost to non-conformances caused by vehicle system design
What they're looking for
- Assess risk before it happens, put mitigations in place, and verify they hold for future vehicles
- Make risk/reward trade calls using engineering, program, and production input: to protect both the rocket and the business
- Lead risk reduction, cost saving, performance improvement, and: engineer-to-order projects across team boundaries
- Prioritise competing development projects to get the best outcomes for the: business and deliver team and department AOPs