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Critical Lift & Transport Technician (Crane Operations) - Day Shift

SpaceX· Launch Critical Lift & Transport
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Hybrid (Cape Canaveral, FL)full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Crane operations technician responsible for movement, maintenance, and supporting critical lift activities for flight hardware and ground support equipment at Cape Canaveral and KSC, with a focus on safety, efficiency, and coordination of transport systems.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for Falcon 9 stages, Payload, Dragon capsule, Starship and associated ground support equipment (GSE) movement across Cape Canaveral and KSC launch site
  • Perform preventative maintenance on mobile cranes, cranes and SPMTs
  • Work with a team of technicians and engineers to ensure transport systems and equipment are maintained with the highest level of quality to support current and future manifest
  • Utilize heavy machinery (forklift, telescopic, overhead crane) to lift and move flight hardware and associated GSE after delivery and prior to shipping
  • Evaluate in-transit risks and provide on-site solutions to alleviate risk. Including: routes, repairs, escorts, and drivers – includes physical escorts across launch sites
  • Pack up and organize cross country shipping fixtures and associated hardware for return to respective shipping site
  • Perform preventative maintenance and repair of shipping fixtures and GSE
  • Organize, procure and maintain tools needed to offload and pack up flight hardware
  • Develop, document and coordinate work instructions with management team to ensure efficient packaging of flight hardware and equipment is maintained
  • Perform route surveys prior to scheduled flight hardware moves
  • Make recommendations to management to improve the health, timing, and safety of all movements
  • Use various mechanical tools without instruction
  • Troubleshoot operational issues found on vehicle pressure systems
  • Maintain and install fluid system components from a schematic or drawing including ball and check valves, pressure regulator and gauges, etc.
  • Set up, inspect, operate and perform maintenance on hydraulic self-propelled modular transporters, hydraulic booms and crawler cranes.
  • Perform tear down and assembly of different configurations associated with Cranes and SPMTs
  • Core traits: strong written and oral communication, meticulous attention to detail, safety, adherence to policies, teamwork

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalency certificate
  • 1+ years of professional experience in critical lift or heavy haul operations

Skills

Required:Organization and multitaskingSchematic/technical reading
Nice to have:Rigging

Benefits

  • Not specified in description
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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