Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Assembly & Integration

Telemetry Today LLC; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Purchase Program (15%-1

Company stock as part of total comp

Job summary

Rocket Lab is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer I to lead assembly and integration efforts, improving manufacturability and production ramp. The role focuses on feasibility studies, design for manufacturability, and setting up and optimizing factories to boost yield and efficiency.

You will partner with Design Engineering, own production lines, diagnose failures, and drive cross-functional process improvements while contributing to change management and business systems enhancements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or similar.
• 5+ years of technical experience in a Manufacturing, Production, or Process Engineering environment.
• Hands-on experience identifying and solving systemic multifaceted problems in complex manufacturing systems.
• Ability to effectively deliver on multiple complex multifaceted assignments simultaneously with autonomy.
• Ability to coach and mentor others to raise the bar across multiple teams.
• Detailed technical knowledge in complex manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare feasibility studies and conduct manufacturing technology R&D projects.
• Partner with our Design Engineering teams to incorporate Design for Manufacture into our products to ensure robustness and manufacturability at scale.
• Engineer and deliver our factories – design,procure, install,validateassembly,testand verification processes.
• Support Development builds to uncover early learnings and resolve issues to accelerate the production ramp up.
• Take engineering ownership of production lines to remove blockers, improveyieldand increase build efficiency.
• Triage and diagnose failures, conduct deep technicalinvestigationsanddeterminethe right path forward including risk mitigation actions and root cause resolution.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to resolve complex issues.
• Drive process improvements across manufacturing,testand integration.
• Contribute to change management, assessing risk and impact of design or process changes.
• Support business system and process improvements to drive increased organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

Skills

Manufacturing

Production engineering

Process engineering

Cross-functional

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Mechatronics/Computer Engineering

Job description

Rocket Lab is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer I to lead assembly and integration efforts, improving manufacturability and production ramp. The role focuses on feasibility studies, design for manufacturability, and setting up and optimizing factories to boost yield and efficiency.

You will partner with Design Engineering, own production lines, diagnose failures, and drive cross-functional process improvements while contributing to change management and business systems enhancements.