As a Clean Line Technician, you will support the controlled preparation, assembly, inspection, and handling of spacecraft hardware in cleanroom and other contamination-controlled production environments. You will work closely with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams to build and maintain high-reliability spacecraft systems from early development through environmental testing, flight readiness, and production ramp.
RESPONSIBILITIESCleanroom Operations
- Perform work in cleanroom and controlled environments.
- Follow gowning, entry and exit, housekeeping, FOD prevention, ESD control, chemical safety, and contamination-control requirements.
- Maintain clean and organized workstations and report cleanliness or environmental issues.
Hardware Preparation and Handling
- Receive, inspect, clean, protect, label, package, and transport flight and flight-like hardware.
- Maintain hardware traceability, configuration control, cleanliness status, and proper storage conditions.
- Safely handle delicate, precision, ESD-sensitive, and flight-qualified hardware.
Assembly and Production Support
- Perform mechanical, electrical, and mixed-assembly operations using engineering drawings, work instructions, process sheets, and approved procedures.
- Install brackets, panels, fasteners, harness supports, thermal hardware, mechanisms, covers, and other spacecraft components.
- Perform torqueing, safety wiring, staking, bonding, shimming, potting, alignment, and mechanical fastening.
- Support spacecraft subsystem integration, closeouts, access-panel installation, and production-line activities.
- Maintain accurate build records, inspection documentation, travelers, checklists, and electronic production records.
Inspection and Quality
- Perform visual, dimensional, workmanship, cleanliness, and configuration inspections.
- Verify part numbers, serial numbers, revision levels, tool calibration status, and required documentation.
- Identify, contain, and document hardware discrepancies, process deviations, foreign object debris, and nonconforming conditions.
- Support nonconformance investigations, root-cause analysis, rework, repair, and corrective-action activities.
- Partner with quality and engineering teams to ensure hardware meets drawing, procedure, and customer requirements.
Test and Integration Support
- Support functional checks, fit checks, alignment checks, deployment testing, mass-properties activities, and other spacecraft test operations.
- Assist with setup and teardown of test hardware, fixtures, instrumentation, and ground-support equipment.
- Support vibration, acoustic, thermal-vacuum, and other environmental testing as required.
- Follow approved test procedures and accurately record test results, measurements, observations, and discrepancies.
- Support hardware closeout, post-test inspection, rework, and return-to-service activities.
Tools, Fixtures, and Equipment
- Operate, inspect, clean, and maintain hand tools, torque tools, precision measurement equipment, lifting equipment, fixtures, and ground-support equipment.
- Verify calibration and serviceability of tools and equipment before use.
- Support the improvement of tooling, fixtures, workstations, processes, and work instructions.
- Assist with material movement and lifting operations in accordance with approved safety procedures.
Safety and Continuous Improvement
- Follow all company and facility requirements for ESD, FOD, cleanroom operations, chemical handling, lifting and handling, PPE, and hazardous materials.
- Work safely around energized systems, sensitive flight hardware, chemicals, test equipment, and specialized manufacturing equipment.
- Provide feedback on drawings, work instructions, assembly processes, tooling, and production methods.
- Participate in 5S, lean manufacturing, process-improvement, and production-readiness activities.
- Communicate clearly with technicians, engineers, quality personnel, and production leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS- Technical degree, certificate, apprenticeship, military training, or equivalent experience in manufacturing, mechanical, aerospace, electronics, composites, or a related field.
- Relevant experience in cleanroom manufacturing, aerospace, spacecraft, defense, medical devices, semiconductor, automotive, precision manufacturing, or another high-reliability production environment.
- Experience following detailed work instructions, engineering drawings, process specifications, travelers, inspection procedures, or test procedures.
- Experience working in cleanroom, ESD-sensitive, FOD-critical, or contamination-controlled environments.
- Experience using hand tools, torque tools, precision measurement equipment, microscopes, fixtures, or production test equipment.
- Ability to perform detailed visual inspections and accurately document work performed.
- Ability to safely handle delicate, precision, and flight-qualified hardware.
- Ability to follow procedures while maintaining strong attention to detail and quality.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds and work in and around constrained, confined, or physically demanding spaces.
- Ability to work flexible hours or extended shifts when required to support production and testing schedules.
PREFERRED SKILLS- Experience working in spacecraft, satellite, aerospace, defense, semiconductor, medical-device, or other contamination-controlled manufacturing environments.
- Familiarity with cleanroom classifications, gowning requirements, contamination control, ESD protection, and FOD prevention.
- Experience with precision mechanical or electromechanical assembly.
- Experience with torque application, safety wiring, staking, shimming, bonding, potting, or adhesive application.
- Experience with calipers, micrometers, height gauges, optical equipment, microscopes, coordinate measuring equipment, or other inspection tools.
- Familiarity with GD&T, engineering drawings, mechanical inspection practices, flight hardware, composite structures, thermal hardware, mechanisms, or deployment systems.
- Experience supporting vibration, acoustic, thermal-vacuum, or other environmental testing.
- Experience with material tracking, serialized hardware, configuration control, electronic travelers, or manufacturing execution systems.
- Experience supporting lean manufacturing, 5S, standard work, root-cause analysis, or continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Relevant certifications or training in cleanroom operations, ESD, rigging, mechanical assembly, machining, composites, quality inspection, or hazardous-material handling.
COMPENSATIONBase Salary: - Technician III: $36-$50.50/hr
- Senior Technician: $43.50-60/hr
*this position is non-exempt and is eligible for overtime
Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS- Work Location-this a fully onsite position based out of our Long Beach, CA office.
- Work environment-the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
- Physical demands-the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.
This position will be open until it is successfully filled. To submit your application, please follow the directions below. #LI-Onsite
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
