Responsibilities

We're looking for a Senior or Principal Multi-Disciplinary Technician to build, integrate, and test hardware anywhere in the factory as we build a rocket factory from the ground up.
Reporting to the Head of Manufacturing, you'll be accountable for delivering hardware across trade boundaries, including building, plumbing, wiring, machining, welding, rigging, testing, and troubleshooting flight hardware, test stands, and the factory itself. You'll work directly with design, manufacturing, and test engineers, resolve first-build and stalled-build problems, and turn what you learn into procedures, tooling, and training that enable repeatable production. This role is ideal for someone who can work across disciplines, lead unfamiliar builds, and identify why a build is difficult and how to improve it.
This is a full-time, on-site role in Kent, Washington, within Production Engineering.
Assemble and integrate structural, mechanical, propulsion, fluid, and avionics subassemblies from engineering drawings, models, and work instructions, from first-article builds through rate production.
Perform engine installation and thrust-structure and aft-end integration, including alignment, precision measurement, flight-critical torque and fastener installation, and safety wire.
Build, install, and leak-check flight and ground fluid systems (tube bending, flaring and swaging, fittings, valves, regulators and seals) in oxygen-clean, FOD-intolerant environments.
Fabricate, route, terminate and test wire harnesses and electromechanical assemblies (continuity, hi-pot, insulation resistance), and install avionics on the vehicle and on test stands.
Run pressurized, pneumatic, and cryogenic operations, including proof and leak tests, functional checkouts, propellant-system conditioning, and integrated stage tests.
Set up and operate instrumentation and data acquisition (pressure, temperature, flow, strain), and interpret P&IDs, electrical schematics, and test data.
Lead fault isolation across mechanical, fluid, and electrical boundaries; document nonconformances and work with engineering on root cause and disposition.
Set up and run manual mills, lathes, drill presses, surface grinders and saws to make tooling, fixtures, brackets, adapters, shims and quick-turn rework parts from drawings or sketches.
Operate CNC mills and lathes for short-run and prototype work: load programs, set work offsets and tool lengths, prove out first articles, and make basic program edits with a machinist or programmer.

Qualification

High school diploma or GEDProficient use of calibrated toolsAbility to obtain and keep forkliftAbility to lift up to 50 lb unassistedMachining trade certificateExperience standing up a new factory

Required

8+ years of hands-on technician experience in aerospace, launch vehicles, aviation, energy, motorsports, or a similar high-reliability industry
High school diploma or GED, or related vocational/technical education.
Expert-level skill in at least two of the following, with working competence across most of the rest: mechanical assembly, fluid systems, cryogenic and high-pressure operations, electrical/avionics, machining, welding, test and instrumentation, rigging.
Ability to read and work from engineering drawings, GD&T, P&IDs, electrical schematics and work instructions.
Proficient use of calibrated tools, including torque wrenches, micrometers, calipers, height and depth gauges, and multimeters.
Ability to set up and run manual mills and lathes to drawing tolerances.
Ability to obtain and keep forklift, overhead crane, and aerial-lift qualifications.
Ability to lift up to 50 lb unassisted, stand for extended periods, work at heights and in confined spaces, and work around high-pressure and cryogenic systems.

Preferred

FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) certificate.
Workmanship certifications such as IPC/WHMA-A-620, J-STD-001 or NASA-STD-8739.4.
AWS or ASME Section IX GTAW welding certifications, or comparable aerospace welding qualifications.
Machining trade certificate; experience with Haas, Fanuc or Mazak controls and CAM such as Siemens NX, Fusion 360, or Mastercam.
Rocket engine or turbomachinery assembly and test, or launch vehicle integration and launch-pad operations experience.
Experience standing up a new factory, test site, or production line, including equipment installation and commissioning.
Military technical background (aviation maintenance, nuclear, missile systems).
Lean or continuous improvement experience; familiarity with MES/ERP systems and reading CAD models.

Senior Multi-Disciplinary Technician at Cowboyspace · LumiJobs

Senior Multi-Disciplinary Technician

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