Senior Manufacturing Engineer I — Assembly & Integration (Equity Options)

Rocket Lab Corporation; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company  匹

HSA plan

Dental and vision coverage

Paid vacation

Sick leave

11 paid holidays per year

Onsite gym

EV charging stations

Stock purchase program

Job summary

Rocket Lab in Long Beach, CA seeks a Senior Manufacturing Engineer I to advance assembly and integration processes. You will partner with Design Engineering to ensure manufacturability, lead factory setup and optimization, and drive improvements across production lines.

The role requires hands-on troubleshooting, strong teamwork, and a focus on efficiency. You will own production-line performance, mentor others, and tackle complex manufacturing challenges with autonomy while supporting rapid

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 proactively identifying and solving systemic multifaceted problems in complex manufacturing systems
• Ability to effectively deliver on multiple complex multifaceted assignments simultaneously with autonomy
• Ability to effectively coach and mentor others to raise the bar across multiple teams

Responsibilities

• Prepare feasibility studies and conduct manufacturing technology Research & Development 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, validate assembly, test and 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, improve yield and increase build efficiency
• Triage and diagnose failures, conduct deep technical investigations and determine the 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, test and 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 engineering

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Autonomy

Mentoring

Education

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

Tools

Instrumentation & sensors knowledge

DFMEA/PFMEA

Design for Manufacturability

Job description

Rocket Lab in Long Beach, CA seeks a Senior Manufacturing Engineer I to advance assembly and integration processes. You will partner with Design Engineering to ensure manufacturability, lead factory setup and optimization, and drive improvements across production lines.

The role requires hands-on troubleshooting, strong teamwork, and a focus on efficiency. You will own production-line performance, mentor others, and tackle complex manufacturing challenges with autonomy while supporting rapid