Integration Technician (Payloads) - Multiple Shifts Verified today
Integration Technician (Payloads) - Multiple Shifts
Join a highly skilled team of technicians to integrate and launch thousands of SpaceX's Starlink satellites and commercial/government spacecraft.
Responsibilities
- Provide daily support to the payload integration technician team on Starlink integration and customer payload integration
- Handle hardware receiving, checkouts, and processing of SpaceX fairing flight hardware and ground support equipment
- Integrate Starlink satellites and commercial/government spacecraft
- Work with engineers and technicians to ensure systems and mechanical equipment are built safely and reliably to support successful launches
Basic Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalency certificate
- 2 or more years hands-on experience in assembly, test, maintenance, repair, and/or installation, OR a certificate from an accredited trade skills program
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Able to obtain or currently hold top secret/SCI security clearance
- Airframe & Powerplant License
- Associate degree in aerospace technology or equivalent
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Experience populating and repairing connectors (D-SUB, BNC, TNC, N-TYPE, SMA, 8P8C)
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
- Experience working in clean room and ESD sensitive environments
- Knowledge of pressure, temperature, and flow measurement devices
- Experience maintaining propulsion test stands in aerospace
- Experience at rocket launch facilities and supporting launch campaigns
- Military aviation experience as propulsion or airframe technician
- Skill operating machinery and hand/power tools requiring manual dexterity
- Experience with forklifts, cranes, and heavy equipment
- Familiarity with calibrated measurement devices (load cells, multi-meters, calipers, torque wrenches, depth gauges, micrometers)
Additional Requirements
- Ability to pass Air Force background check for Vandenberg Space Force Base
- Ability to work one of the following shifts, overtime, and weekends as needed: 5:00 PM - 3:30 AM Monday-Friday, or 6:00 AM - 4:30 PM Monday-Friday
- Must be able to work while wearing air purifying and/or supplied air respirators
- Work schedule varies depending on site operational needs; flexibility required
- Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted
- Lifting, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, and carrying generally required
- Must be able to work at elevated heights (up to 300 feet), including use of ladders
- Must be willing to operate heavy machinery
- Must be able to work in confined spaces
- Typically exposed to extreme outdoor environments (heat, cold, rain, ice)
- Work performed in environment with exposure to fumes, odors, and noise
- Willing to travel to other SpaceX sites as needed
Compensation
Pay range depends on experience 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.
Benefits include long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, potential discretionary bonuses, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, comprehensive medical/vision/dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays per year, and paid sick leave.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.