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Integration Technician, Mission Management
Support the payload integration technician team at SpaceX Vandenberg, where you'll process customer payloads and critical government assets for launch.
Responsibilities
- Provide daily support to the payload integration technician team working on customer payload integration
- Navigate hardware receiving, checkouts, and processing of SpaceX flight hardware and ground support equipment
- Integrate commercial and government spacecraft
- Work with engineers and technicians to ensure systems and mechanical equipment are built safely and reliably for successful launch of high-value satellites and critical government assets
Basic Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalency certificate
- 3+ years of professional experience working in a technical, hands-on capacity
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Launch vehicle or spacecraft integration experience
- Operations in 100,000 class or better clean rooms
- Test operations with gases or fluids
- Data acquisition setup and field measurements
- Experience reading and understanding technical drawings, manuals, and reports
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Clean room environment experience
- Written and oral communication with attention to detail, safety, and adherence to standards
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
- 5+ years of experience as a technician in a mechanical capacity
- Experience working at a rocket launch facility and supporting launch campaigns
- Operating and manipulating machinery and various hand and power tools
- Aviation, aerospace, or automotive industry experience
- Ability to obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI clearance
- Ability to work well in a team environment and with a wide range of people across multiple organizations
Additional Requirements
- Ability to pass Air Force background check for Vandenberg
- Willing to travel to other launch sites or customer facilities, up to 15%
- Willing to work all shifts, overtime, and weekends to support launch and critical project timelines
- Ability to work at elevated heights or on ladders up to 100 feet
- Able to stand, lift, push, and carry moderately heavy materials or equipment up to 25 lbs
- Willing to work in environments with exposure to fumes, odors, and noise
- Willing to work in a clean room with hair, face, and shoe covers
- Available to work 10 hours per day on one of the following shifts: 1st Shift 6:00 AM-4:30 PM, Monday to Friday; 2nd Shift 5:00 PM-3:30 AM, Monday to Friday
Compensation
Pay range by level:
- Level 1: $23.00-$29.75 per hour
- Level 2: $28.50-$35.75 per hour
- Level 3: $34.00-$41.75 per hour
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is one part of your total rewards package. You may be eligible for long-term incentives as company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Benefits include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays per year, and paid sick leave.
Export Control
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.