Apprentice Toolmaker (2nd Shift) SpaceX

Apprentice Toolmaker (2nd Shift)
Technicians and Trade Skills | Hawthorne, CA, United States
The Company
SpaceX is a US based space technology company founded by its residing CEO and CTO, Elon Musk, the former co-founder of PayPal. The company's goal is to renew a sense of excellence in the space industry by disrupting the current paradigm of complacency and replacing it with innovation and commercialized price points; laying the foundation for a truly space-faring human civilization.
SpaceX builds rockets and spacecraft from the ground up; including electronics, software, vehicle structures, and engines. In-house development includes nearly all flight critical custom components amounting to approximately 85% of our vehicles both by mass and by value. Our development and production efforts represent some of the most dynamic and challenging technology problems seen in any organization.
Our success is driven by a wide variety of engineering perspectives and openness to all great ideas. We pride ourselves on being a meritocracy where employees are defined by their capabilities and contributions, instead of title or tenure. We are actively seeking the best and brightest minds from all industries to continue to build our world class team.
Our employees thrive in a fast-paced engineering ecosystem focused on innovation and high levels of personal responsibility. At SpaceX we cut through the noise and believe in the essentials of hardcore engineering.
We build it, test it, and fly it.
The Department
Manufacturing/Production â€" One of the most critical needs we now have at SpaceX is for Manufacturing/Production engineers. With two vehicles flight proven, we have a $3 billion backlog of sold flights. The next critical phase is proving our ability to build rockets with increasing speed while maintaining quality in order to meet the markets high demand. We are looking to add manufacturing engineers throughout the company.
The Job
We are looking for experienced Laser Tracker/Toolmakers to support our Structures team at our Hawthorne, CA facility.
Responsibilities

• Apprentice will ASSIST Toolmakers with the following duties:
• Lay out, fabricate, and assemble a variety of standard and nonstandard major jigs, fixtures, tool masters, master tooling gauges and related tooling involving compound angles and complex contours where the establishment and coordination to exacting tolerances of numerous tooling holes and reference points between several planes are required
• Plan work to be performed and determine methods and sequence of operations working from tool design drawings or own designs
• Sets up and operate optical instruments to check overall and detailed alignment, fit, or adjustment of assemblies
• Develop and design holding devices and jig and fixture details
• Make complete layout, fabricate and builds all types of jigs and fixtures (including tool masters) involving compound angles and complex contours where the establishment and coordination to exacting tolerances of numerous tooling holes and reference points between several planes is required
• Use complex tool design drawings and complex engineering blueprints
• Operate various types of machine shop equipment to complete assignment as required

Requirements

• Verisurf v9 & v10 experience
• Excellent skills in performing inspection of tooling, details and sub-assemblies using Dimensional Control Equipment.
• Specific equipment to include: Leica Laser Trackers, (all other Tracker experience will be considered) all bench inspection measurement equipment
• Experience and proficiency using any CAD/CAM software
• Skill in reading complex blueprints including:
• Ability to identify and understand specification
• Knowledgeable in geometric tolerance (understand and recognize all symbols)
• Thorough understanding of general tolerances and GD&T
• Comprehend sections and views
• Understand reference systems & how to create them
• Ability to understand purpose and functionality of component being inspected
• Understanding of electronic file management system
• Organizational skills
• Self-direction and capable of working with minimal supervision
• Proficient computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred skills

• 1 year minimum experience in a similar role
• Tool Jig and Fixture Building experience

SpaceX offers one of the best environments in the world for employees to learn, build real working systems and tackle exciting challenges every day. We operate in a fun, casual work environment and have great benefits including: competitive salary, stock options, medical/dental insurance and free gym memberships. By joining the SpaceX team, you are not just a part of history, you are making it.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, SpaceX hires only U.S. citizens and U.S. Permanent Residents.
Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resource Department at (310) 363-6000.

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