Multiple openings on multiple shifts immediately available.

Compensation: Up to $50/hour plus overtime (10 hours weekly is available) and healthcare benefits available.

Location: Kent, WA. These positions are 100% onsite at a space rocket facility with no possibility of remote or work-from-home.

Positions are 6-24 month contract-to-hire opportunities with high possibility to convert to FTE.

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As part of a diverse and hardworking team of specialists, you will be responsible for the development and modification of PC-DMIS NC programs for mill, lathes, and multi-axis machines for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of producing accurate programs and set-up sheets enabling the first article's success on tight tolerance high-value parts for various spaceflight systems.

You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention toward safe and repeatable spaceflight.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Create NC programs for CNC Mills/Lathes/Multi-axis mills and Multi-axis lathes/VTLs to ensure engineering requirements are met
• Development of a machining strategy to take design data and produce machined hardware
• Develop and manage set-up sheets
• Collaborate with engineers, manufacturing engineers, and machinists
• Design custom tools and fixtures as needed
• Provide DFMA feedback
• Process improvement; both machining actual inputs and administrative process changes
• Conduct product acceptance within the guidance of the company policy
• Maintain configuration control on files and job records
• Safely work within an industrial environment

Minimum Qualifications:

• This position requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in NC programming
• Excellent blueprint reading skills including GD&T per ASME Y14.5M-1994 standard
• Tools fixture design
• Set up sheet creation and management
• Cutter selection and cutter design if needed
• Feed and speed calculations
• Must have Inconel, stainless steel and aluminum experience
• DFMA
• Excellent Communication
• Fluent in the use of precision hand tools and familiar with the use of personal computers
• Individuals must be self-motivating to prioritize work to meet project completion dates
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Who is Rainier Recruiting? 

Rainier Recruiting is a boutique, award winning national staffing agency and executive search firm. Using an approach that “treats every

candidate like an executive search”, we offer positions in contract-to-hire, Full-Time, and executive search. Named the #1 Best Workplace in Washington State in 2022, recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm, and identified as a top recruitment firm by multiple business journals, Rainier Recruiting is fast becoming a respected company. We are no longer the “best recruiters you have never heard of”. Rainier Recruiting is also proud to share our clients have a 93% repeat business rate. Rainier Recruiting is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and for the candidates we represent. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, equitable, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of every organization that we partner with.