Junior Manufacturing Engineer

Rocket Lab Corporation·Auckland, NZ·Posted 14 October 2026

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ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us. Have you recently graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, or similar? If so, we are looking for entry level Manufacturing Engineers across multiple disciplines to turn early ideas into manufacturable designs, build and optimise the systems that make them real, and constantly push for faster, better, smarter ways to build rockets. THE OPPORTUNITIES: We're hiring across four key manufacturing disciplines: Assembly & Integration – Mechanical, Assembly, Propulsion, Mechanical Test Avionics & Test – Electronics manufacturing, electrical test, debugging systems Composites – Advanced materials, resins, ablatives, sandwich structures Machining – CNC programming, precision manufacturing, GD&T In your application, please indicate which discipline(s) align with your…

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