Propulsion Test Technician I

About the Team:  

The Stennis Test team designs, builds, and operates Relativity’s propulsion and stage test stands. Team members are hands-on with large-scale, complex systems including fully integrated engines and stage assemblies, pushing hardware to the limits and directly contributing to flight readiness. The work is fast-paced and highly operational, ideal for those with backgrounds in aviation, automotive, manufacturing, offshore operations, industrial systems, construction, or adjacent industries. You’ll work in a close-knit, dynamic environment where collaboration between technicians, operators, and engineers is not only encouraged, but expected. As the company scales, the Stennis Test team becomes even more critical to unlocking our next phase of growth: proving out full-stage systems and paving the way for routine, reliable flights of Terran R.

About the Role: 

As a Propulsion Test Technician, you will perform functions in daily test operations supporting engine testing, building of new test stand facilities, and modifying existing test stands. 

• Perform the installation, operational checkouts, troubleshooting, and maintenance of test stand equipment and hardware
• Fabrication, installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of fluid system tubing and hardware
• Assemble, install, checkout, and maintain a wide array of components that include sensors for fluid system monitoring
• Proactively perform work according to procedures, specifications, and test instructions
• Disassembly and precision cleaning of valves, regulators, and other components
• Monitor and maintain an inventory of consumables, tooling, and equipment
• Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs unassisted
• Must be able to stand for extended periods
• Must be able to stoop, bend, crawl, and maneuver in tight spaces
• This position will require occasional night shifts, weekends and possible travel

About You:  

Basic experience in medium to heavy industrial maintenance, instrumentation, data and control systems, avionics hardware, and/or mechanical systems OR Associates degree in related mechanical of electrical technical discipline. Each technician has a primary focus area: mechanical or instrumentation. Below are skills needed for all technicians as well as skills necessary for each focus area.

• Ability to operate a wide range of hand and power tools for fabrication operations

Skills needed for each focus area:

• Mechanical:
  • Experience with fluid/pneumatic systems and their components
  • Experience with mechanical components and their systems
• Instrumentation:
  • Experience with electronic circuits and sensor types used to measure temperature, pressure, flow, displacement, and vibration
  • Experience with electronic test equipment, e.g. oscilloscopes, signal generators, and/or multi-meters

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Experience operating industrial warehouse equipment
• Operational understanding of sensor types used to measure temperature, pressure, flow, and displacement
• Experience installing and making repairs to instrumentation, data acquisition systems, and/or avionics systems
• Experience fabricating, installing, and checking out fluid system tubing and hardware

Successful candidates must clear a background check administered by the US government to obtain clearance for on-site work at our government partner location in Stennis, Mississippi.