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 manufacturi