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Lead Welder (Starship Launch Hardware) - Multiple Shifts

SpaceX· Starship Launch Hardware Fabrication - Cape
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Cape Canaveral, FLfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead a welding team for SpaceX Starship launch hardware, overseeing fabrication, leadership of welders and contract crews, ensuring adherence to welding procedures, and coordinating material needs and work procedures across multiple shifts.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of welders during build and repair operations for launch, recovery, and post-launch refurbishment
  • Lay out, fit, and fabricate metal components to assemble structures, launch component supports, and pressure vessels
  • Lead contract welders when job size and schedule require increased team sizes; train and monitor the work quality of contractors
  • Orient new team members and assign/reassign tasks; assist in scheduling daily work assignments and inform others of work procedures to ensure performance standards are met
  • Assist the supervisor in coaching, mentoring, and training team members
  • Communicate with the team on assignments, projects, problems, deadlines, and issues for review
  • Problem solve and collaborate on SpaceX tasks and assignments
  • Ensure that all welding staff members follow the proper weld procedure
  • Provide information on material and rod size, and accurately assess material needs for each welding project

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalency certificate
  • 5+ years of structural fabrication and welding experience
  • 3+ years of piping system or pressure vessel fabrication experience

Skills

Required:Welding supervisionWelding techniquesBlueprint reading and layout
Nice to have:Plasma cutting and oxyacetylene cutting

Benefits

  • N/A
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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