Vehicle Integration Technician Verified today
About the role
You will be responsible for the efficient and successful assembly of the Alpha Launch vehicle. This requires understanding design intentions and executing assembly to match them. You will stage, set up, assemble, test, and install flight hardware; operate high-pressure pneumatic, cryogenic, and fuel systems; and travel to the launch site to support integrated vehicle and launch pad operations.
What you will do
- Follow complex assembly procedures and work instructions
- Execute integration processes
- Safely operate high pressure pneumatic, cryogenic, and fuel systems
- Stage, set up, assemble, test, and install flight hardware
- Utilize necessary tooling and fixturing
- Follow complex planning instructions for assembly and integration of all vehicle subsystems
- Communicate effectively with engineers and teammates
- Identify discrepancies between design and manufacture/assembly and resolve them
- Support engineering in defining manufacturability, producibility, and assembly of design
Required experience and skills
- Minimum 2 years experience with complex assemblies in production (aviation, automotive, oil rig maintenance/assembly)
- Proficient use of pneumatic tools, hand tools, power tools, and precision measurement instruments
- Proven experience with complex troubleshooting
- Comfortable working within an evolving process
- Flexibility regarding workflow and process
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- General knowledge of basic hand tools and their use
- Willing to travel up to 30%
Desired experience
- A&P License
- Military experience in fixed or rotor wing maintenance
- Two or more years in: rocket engines, turbomachinery, or complex component assembly; troubleshooting/repairing/testing pneumatic and/or cryogenic valves, fluid systems, actuators, or components; or civilian/military aircraft engine experience
Location and travel
This position is located at our manufacturing and test facility in Briggs, TX, north of Austin. Travel to the launch site is required, up to 30% of the time.
Who can apply
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.