Space Rocket Assembly Technician (multiple openings) - Rainier Recruiting

Multiple openings on multiple shifts immediately available.

 

Compensation: Up to $47/hour plus overtime (10 hours weekly is available) and healthcare benefits available.

 

Location: Kent, WA. These positions are 100% onsite at a space rocket facility with no possibility of remote or work-from-home.

 

Positions are 6-24 month contract-to-hire opportunities with high possibility to convert to FTE.

 

Contact info@rainierrecruiting.com for more information and for access to over 100+ other openings in space and aerospace.

 

Overview?

As part of a diverse and hardworking team of technicians, you will build launch vehicles, spacecraft and launch facility systems. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of and responsible for manufacturing, assembling, and supporting hardware testing that meets Blue Origin's program requirements. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!




Additional responsibilities include:          

• Assembly of a variety of structural, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanically actuated component sub-assemblies for New Shepard, New Glenn, and Engine’s components
• Assembly of structural components to aerospace standards
• Work with engineers to review design concepts, provide feedback for ease of assembly, and support development tests
• Review, edit and follow work instructions for assembly tasks
• Plan and communicate assembly steps for complex mechanical installations
• Safely work with hazardous systems, containing chemicals and/or high pressure
• Ability to work in a team environment with multiple and rapidly changing priorities
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Qualifications:    

• Excellent demonstrated written and verbal communication skills
• 3-5+ years of experience in precision assembly
• Experience drilling and preparing close tolerance holes for structural assembly and fastener installation
• Ability to document and maintain accurate records, strict procedural compliance, as well as read drawings and prints
• Ability to use standard tools and basic fabrication equipment
• Experience assembling and troubleshooting aerospace, military hardware, or other related fields
• Demonstrated ability to use standard mechanical tools, fabrication shop equipment
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Desired but not required:          

• Experience in launch vehicle or propulsion system assembly and vehicle integration
• 5+ years’ experience in aerospace or related fields
• A&P license or equivalent experience in launch vehicle or propulsion system assembly and integration
• Familiarity with pressurized system safety for pneumatic and hydraulic systems
• Experience operating heavy lifting equipment such as cranes and forklifts around flight critical hardware
• Experience with 3D measurement tools and Spatial analyzer/Verisurf software
• Working knowledge of a variety of rocket propellants, including hydrogen peroxide, RP, and cryogenics
• Knowledge in the use of 3D CAD tools (CREO is preferred), and ability to read and interpret GD&T per ASME Y14.5M-1994 standard

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.










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Rainier Recruiting is a boutique, award winning national staffing agency and executive search firm. Using an approach that “treats every

candidate like an executive search”, we offer positions in contract-to-hire, Full-Time, and executive search. Named the #1 Best Workplace in Washington State in 2022, recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm, and identified as a top recruitment firm by multiple business journals, Rainier Recruiting is fast becoming a respected company. We are no longer the “best recruiters you have never heard of”. Rainier Recruiting is also proud to share our clients have a 93% repeat business rate. Rainier Recruiting is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and for the candidates we represent. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, equitable, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of every organization that we partner with.