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# Manufacturing Engineer at rocketlab

**Location**
: Waitematā, Auckland

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: entry

**Posted**
: Aug 5, 2026

## Description

Rocket Lab is hiring Manufacturing Engineers across multiple disciplines to support the design, build, optimization, and scale-up of manufacturing systems for rockets, satellites, payloads, and components. The role spans Assembly & Integration, Avionics & Test, Composites, and Machining, with responsibilities including solving production issues, improving processes, writing procedures, developing test methods, reviewing designs for manufacturability, mentoring others, and using Lean/Six Sigma and production systems to improve quality, speed, and reliability.

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