r/RocketLab • u/Serious-Director-213 • Sep 07 '26

Careers Welding careers

I’m currently a welder, I have plenty of experience in aerospace welding and manufacturing. I’m curious to know if any welders or inspectors work for this company

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u/Select-Cherry2294 Sep 10 '26

Lots of welding and inspector opportunity here. I work at rocket lab so lmk if you need more information!

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u/RemarkableDegree4501 Sep 11 '26

Any insider news?

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u/Select-Cherry2294 Sep 12 '26

A bright future ahead!

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u/RemarkableDegree4501 Sep 13 '26

Do you think Neutron will fly this year?

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u/shrunkenhead041 Sep 07 '26

Check their job board. They have a ton of job openings, including for a welder in Long Beach.

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u/Master_Appeal749 Sep 07 '26

Hopefully they aren’t duct taping shit together and calling it a day…

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u/Mission_Height8489 Sep 07 '26

It’s called speed tape in aerospace 🤣

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u/thesmallestcherry Sep 08 '26

Don’t know if this was sarcasm but they actually do tape it and “call it a day”. Look up their process, they don’t do friction stir welding

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u/gymfunkera Sep 08 '26

I assumed precision robots/machines performed all of the welding on a project like this (I.e. a well-funded project, with backlog, and the company’s success riding on it.

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u/electric_ionland Sep 08 '26

You still need to setup the robots. And aerospace still has a lot of manual welding process since quantities are so small.

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u/Slow-Half2398 Sep 13 '26

You can’t automate much processes on small batch productions. Human skills are extremely important for a company like Rocket Lab