Rocket Lab is hiring a
Manufacturing Engineer I

Summary

Join our pioneering team and launch your career to new heights!

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or related
• 3+ years’ experience as a Manufacturing / Production / Process Engineer
• Hands on technical experience debugging complex systems within a Manufacturing environment
• Strong communicator, with proven ability to deliver KPI’s with little to no supervision on schedule as an individual or as a member of an integrated team
• Can do approach and flexibility to thrive around growing teams and processes
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Enable the production team to achieve the required production rates with the right quality
• Support all aspects of production at Rocket Lab, including taking ownership of products released to production, removing production blockers, dispositioning non-conformance tickets, performing root-cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve manufacturing processes and procedures, leveraging strong working knowledge of both the product and best-practice manufacturing techniques

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Siemens Team Center / Infor LN
• Knowledge of production quality metrics
• Working experience with environmental acceptance/production acceptance testing, such as vibration, shock, thermal, and vacuum
• Understanding of instrumentation, interfaces, and sensors including power supplies, oscilloscopes, serial devices, switch topologies, accelerometers, thermocouples, RTDs, and 4-20mA sensors
• Demonstrated experience with DFMEA, PFMEA methodologies, Fault Tree Analysis, Pareto analysis, root cause and corrective action
• Working experience with capacity modeling, process mapping, Lean/Six Sigma, and value stream mapping
• SPC knowledge and experience applying statistical methods to track process capability and performance