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About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for launch, lunar, Mars, and deep-space missions. We move fast and build real hardware for meaningful missions.
About Neutron
Neutron is a medium-lift reusable launch vehicle designed to deliver mega-constellation payloads and high-assurance missions. This is a clean-sheet development program leveraging Rocket Lab's proven execution history.
The Role
Based at Rocket Lab's Test Facility at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, you will help build and operate critical test facilities supporting the Archimedes rocket engine and Neutron launch vehicle. You will work alongside technicians and engineers on test facility design, build, activation, and engine test efforts.
What You'll Do
- Install, maintain, and repair electrical components, systems, machinery, and control panels including cable trays, panel building, and pipe bending
- Troubleshoot, identify, and resolve electrical issues using appropriate testing devices to minimize downtime
- Ensure all electrical systems comply with local, state, and national electrical codes and safety regulations
- Read and interpret technical diagrams, blueprints, and schematics to understand electrical systems
- Check out, calibrate, and functionally test instrumentation and control systems for high-pressure and cryogenic fluid systems including valves, regulators, and flow meters
- Help establish and operate a test facility control room
- Maintain situational awareness and communication during test activities
- Lead and participate as part of a technician and engineering team during facility setup and operation
- Take personal responsibility for your safety and that of those around you
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED with 8 or more years of experience as an electrical technician, in mechanical assembly, technical repair, mechanical maintenance, or similar work in highly regulated manufacturing or maintenance environments
- Experience in test operations or in designing, building, and activating test facilities
Preferred Qualifications
- Electrical journeyman license or related vocational education
- Experience operating and/or building large industrial complexes
- Post-secondary technical education or licenses (A&P or similar)
- Experience with rocket engines, launch vehicles, or aerospace hardware
- Experience operating facilities for liquid oxygen and liquid methane
- Ability to troubleshoot systems and collaborate on corrective work instructions
- Proficiency in MS Office, email, and collaborative tools such as JIRA or Confluence
- Demonstrated assertiveness in fast-paced operations environments
Work Schedule and Physical Requirements
- B-Shift required: Monday through Thursday, 3:00 PM to 1:30 AM
- Ability to stand for long periods, climb ladders, bend, grasp, sit, pull, push, stoop, and stretch
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds unassisted
- Comfortable working in tight spaces and climbing ladders
- Ability to move repetitively, bend or twist, and use hands to handle tools and controls
- Ability to walk or stand for extended periods, minimum 8 hours
- Ability to stoop, bend, crawl, and maneuver in tight spaces
Employment Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident with a current Green Card, or lawfully admitted as a refugee or asylum grantee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or Department of Commerce.