Manufacturing Technician

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Virgin Galactic is seeking a first-rate, highly motivated Manufacturing Technician to support our Vehicle and Rocket Motor Manufacturing teams. Guided by our values, “Safety Above All”, we proactively manage the risks inherent in human spaceflight through our daily actions in the design and assembly efforts. This role is for a hands-on person with great attention to detail, excellent people skills, and a creative, agile mindset ready to overcome challenges and complete projects in a dynamic, pioneering environment.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Working from engineering drawings and detailed work instructions, you will apply our unique bonding, assembly, fabrication, and test processes across both spaceship airframe structures and hybrid rocket motor components. Responsibilities span composites bonding and fabrication, assembly fixturing setup, drilling, fay sealing, wet fastener installation, trimming/fitting, installation and check-out of aircraft systems, and testing - producing top-quality components that meet the highest standards. If you thrive on variety, love solving hands-on problems, and want to be part of the team building the future of spaceflight, you'll feel right at home here.” Support the company strategy by holding ourselves and one another accountable for getting the work done.</span></p><p> </p><p><strong>Work Schedule:</strong> 4/10 Onsite Monday through Thursday Day Shift (6:00am – 4:30pm) </p><p><strong>Potential Future Work Schedules</strong></p><ul type="disc"><li>4/10 Onsite Monday through Thursday Night Shift (4:00pm – 2:30am)</li><li>4/10 Onsite Thursday through Sunday Day Shift (6:00am – 4:30pm) </li></ul><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Responsibilities</span></strong></p><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Cutting composite fabrics and rubbers, laying up composite fabrics and rubbers by hand in molds to fabricate spaceship rocket motor and launch vehicle parts.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Assembly of tools to be used for injection molding parts to be consumed in manufacturing.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Use of weighing scales to properly ratio resins to hardener and to track material weights consumed by the part.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Measuring and placing stations on tooling mold surfaces to locate composite fabric plies per engineering drawings.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Vacuum bagging of parts per specifications.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Reads Engineering Orders, Manufacturing work instructions, blueprints and Service Repair Manuals (SRMs).</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Operates curing ovens/autoclave and monitors cycle functions.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hand sanding composite surfaces.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dry fitting components.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hand finishing parts to fit including hand trimming.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Wet layup (using adhesives and fabrics).</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Fixing/locating structure.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Use of equipment such as gantry cranes to locate components.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Forklift operations, consisting of gathering and placing parts.</span></p></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Adhere to assembly instructions to ensure accurate completion of complex project assemblies.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Surface preparations utilizing curing temperatures and cleanliness.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Co-curing and secondary bonding.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Surface preparations utilizing curing temperatures and cleanliness.</span></p></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Adhere to set directions and guidelines from Supervisor to support collaboration across teams to complete projects </span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Continuously practice safety behavior and Foreign Object Debris (FOD) awareness/prevention; adhere to regulatory protocols and rules.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Work collaboratively to achieve goals and/or complete assigned tasks.</span></p></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Filament Winding:</strong></span></p><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Co-curing and secondary bonding.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Surface preparations utilizing curing temperatures and cleanliness.</span></p></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Required Skills and Experience </strong></span></p><ul type="disc"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">High School Diploma or equivalent </span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Minimum of two years of experience as a technician in an aerospace or equivalent high-reliability field </span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with hands‐on aircraft manufacturing with composite and/or metallic airframes</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with aircraft fabrication/ or Similar Production Fabrication and assembly required or equivalent</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrated ability to use computer applications to follow manufacturing work instructions and work with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to record job status, time spent, and material tracking.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ability to read and interpret drawings, blueprints, and/or models on paper or digital</span></p></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Preferred Skills and Experience</strong></span></p><ul type="disc"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hands-on experience in a precision yet manual manufacturing setting strongly preferred</span></p></li></ul><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with hand tools (torque wrenches, specialty tools etc.) a plus.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with plumbing (fluid lines and fittings) a plus.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with manual lathe and mill operation a plus.</span></p></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experienced with Quality Inspection points and process documentation.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrate willingness to adjust thinking and behavior</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ability to communicate in a manner that is timely, respectful, and open to other ideas</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Knowledge of lean manufacturing philosophies and tools a plus</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with manufacturing-based ERP systems a plus</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement practices</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strong safety forward thinking, practice good housekeeping, tool control, recognizing the importance of properly handling hazardous materials, and chemicals.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Familiar with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).</span></p></li></ul><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">#LI-MS1</span></p><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The annual U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $44,554.00–$60,996.00. The base pay actually offered will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, location, and experience and take into account internal equity. Other forms of pay (e.g., bonus or long term incentive) may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered. For more information regarding Virgin Galactic benefits, please visit <a title="https://vgcareers.virgingalactic.com/global/en/benefits" href="https://vgcareers.virgingalactic.com/global/en/benefits">https://vgcareers.virgingalactic.com/global/en/benefits</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Who We Are</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company, pioneering human spaceflight for private individuals and researchers with its advanced air and space vehicles. We are making the dream of space travel a reality, delivering spaceflight at an unprecedented frequency, with the development of next generation space vehicles</span><span style="color:#000099">.</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Export Requirements </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Person (either a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident or a protected individual as defined 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) or be able to obtain the required authorization from either the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce. The applicant must also not be included in the list of Specifically Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. See list <strong><u><a href="https://usg02.safelinks.protection.office365.us/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fofac.treasury.gov%2Fspecially-designated-nationals-list-data-formats-data-schemas&data=05%7C01%7CSandi.Kosaka%40virgingalactic.com%7C5c47d814f3664ac6bb2a08dbc1063575%7Ca9008a03b053484687d345880ffa31a1%7C0%7C0%7C638316004624246835%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=px2%2BAC1K7DW630GR8Iqm8cc2OQohKudkYOGJrZ%2FqKVw%3D&reserved=0">here</a></u></strong>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">EEO Statement</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Virgin Galactic is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Virgin Galactic is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Drug Free Workplace</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Virgin Galactic is committed to a Drug Free Workplace. All applicants post offer and active teammates are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies. This can include pre-employment, random, reasonable suspicion, and accident related drug and alcohol testing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Phoenix Employment Requirements</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For individuals seeking employment at our Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport facility, employment is contingent upon you obtaining and maintaining a TSA authorized security badge. This includes initial and annual mandatory background checks that are governed by TSA, and conducted by the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport badging office.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Accommodation Requests</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position, please contact the Virgin Galactic Talent Team at: <strong><a title="" href="mailto:VGTalent@virgingalactic.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VGTalent@virgingalactic.com</a> </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Mandatory Notices</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><a id="menur6hc" title="https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/whd/legacy/files/eppac.pdf" href="https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppac.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link Employee Polygraph Protection Act Rights">Employee Polygraph Protection Act Rights</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><a id="menur6he" title="https://www.anl.gov/sites/www/files/2024-01/e-verify_participation_poster_eng_es.pdf" href="https://www.anl.gov/sites/www/files/2024-01/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_Eng_Es.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link E-Verify_Participation_Poster_Eng_Es.pdf">E-Verify_Participation_Poster_Eng_Es</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><a id="menur6hg" title="https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/whd/legacy/files/fmlaen.pdf" href="https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/fmlaen.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link Your Employee Rights Under the Family and Medical Leave Act">Your Employee Rights Under the Family and Medical Leave Act</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><a id="menur6hi" title="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_eeoc_knowyourrights6.12screenrdr.pdf" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal">Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal</a> </span></p>