Senior Composite Technician – Space Structures

Rocket Lab Corp.; Middle River, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted employee stock purchase

Free snacks/drinks onsite

Job summary

Rocket Lab seeks a Composite Technician III to support the Neutron launch vehicle at the Middle River, MD facility. You will build and assemble composite components used in the rocket structure and sequence laminate, bond, and fit critical materials.

Expect hands-on work on bonding, curing, and alignment tasks. You will operate calipers, micrometers, torque wrenches, and precision scales, performing quality checks and adjustments to ensure structural integrity and dimensional accuracy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in composite production, military equipment maintenance, or mechanical troubleshooting, installation, repair of manufacturing equipment.
• Experience using various hand and power tools.

Responsibilities

• Assembly of structures including setup, bonding and fastener applications.
• Laminate assemblies by determining proper placement of composite materials.
• Prepare parts for bagging, including placement of bleeders, thermocouples, probes and vacuum connections.
• Vacuum bag processing, bonding, and oven/autoclave curing.
• Making basic layouts on parts or assemblies to establish reference points and check dimensions with calipers and micrometers.
• Fitting of Honeycomb, foam and syntactic core.

Skills

Composite production

Hand and power tools

Military equipment maintenance

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Calipers, micrometers

Torque wrenches

Precision scales

Job description

Rocket Lab seeks a Composite Technician III to support the Neutron launch vehicle at the Middle River, MD facility. You will build and assemble composite components used in the rocket structure and sequence laminate, bond, and fit critical materials.

Expect hands-on work on bonding, curing, and alignment tasks. You will operate calipers, micrometers, torque wrenches, and precision scales, performing quality checks and adjustments to ensure structural integrity and dimensional accuracy.