Aircraft Maintenance Technician

Our Mission: Fly to space twice in a day. At Dawn Aerospace, we are building the Aurora, a reusable rocket-powered spaceplane designed to make access to space as routine as aviation. To support this mission Dawn is looking for an Avionics Technician to join our Avionics Team. This is a hands-on role focused on building, integrating, and supporting the avionics systems that power the Mk-II Aurora spaceplane. You will work closely with avionics engineers, manufacturing teams, and suppliers to deliver high-quality aircraft systems as we transition the Mk-II Aurora from a research and development platform into a repeatable production aircraft. You will take ownership of electrical harness manufacture, supply chain coordination, and helping establish the processes and standards that will support future aircraft production. If you want a narrow, heavily structured role, this is probably not for you. We are looking for someone practical, organised, and capable of taking ownership in a fast-moving environment. What you'll do Build, install, and test flight-ready electrical harnesses, including manufacture, lacing, termination, labelling, inspection, routing, continuity testing, fault finding, and verification. Support the transition from development to production by improving documentation, work instructions, tooling, and production workflows. Integrate avionics systems into aircraft, including flight computers, sensors, radios, antennas, and supporting electronics. Configure and verify aircraft electrical systems, and support system-level testing during integration. Manage harness and avionics supply chains, including sourcing, bills of materials, procurement, inventory, supplier engagement, harness kits, and production stock. Create and maintain design data including electrical schematics, BOMs,

Join us in developing a remotely piloted reusable spaceplane that combines the demanding performance of a rocket with the reusability of an aircraft. We're looking for an experienced Certification Engineer who enjoys taking ownership of risks and mitigations in the flight operations domain. We need someone who can analyse the safety risks of complex UAS operations, interpret high level safety objectives, and work with engineering and flight operations teams to establish our operations are safe. You will directly contribute to the safety case that demonstrates frequent unmanned, rocket-powered flights to space are safe. If you want a narrow, heavily structured role, this is probably not for you. We are looking for someone practical, organised, and capable of taking ownership in a fast-moving environment. This role works within the Spaceplane Certification Team reporting to the Certification Team Lead. You will not have a team working directly for you but will have a high level of interaction with the Flight Operations and Systems Engineering teams. What You'll Do Manage Certification Projects and Liaison with Civil Aviation Authorities and External Stakeholders • Engage directly with authorities to come to agreement on acceptable risk mitigations. • Where there is disagreement in acceptable approaches to safety, resolve in a manner that builds trust and enables progress. • Work closely with Flight Operations and Systems Engineering teams to provide requirements, safety objectives, set expectations, provide guidance and review their work packages. • Ensure certification deliverables are provided when needed, and work with the authorities to enable review to occur efficiently. Develop Operational Risk Assessment and Safety Case • Systematically identify all risks associated with unmanned aircraft operations using industry practices (JARUS SORA). • Decide the mitigations, standards and p

Our Mission: Fly to Space Twice in One Day At Dawn Aerospace, we're building a space transportation network with the frequency and reliability of aviation. Our Aurora spaceplane programme is developing the world's first rapidly reusable, rocket-powered aircraft capable of routine access to space. Every day, we are pushing the boundaries of aerospace engineering, designing, building, testing, and flying vehicles at a pace rarely seen in the industry. We're looking for a Composites Design Engineer to help design the structures that will make this possible. This is role where your designs will be realised. You'll see your work move rapidly from concept to manufacture, test and flight, working alongside a highly capable team building one of the world's most ambitious aerospace programmes. What You'll Do Design primary and secondary composite airframe structures, including fuselage, wings, control surfaces and internal support structures. Develop laminate schedules, manufacturing drawings, tooling concepts, assembly fixtures and engineering documentation. Perform structural sizing, trade studies and design optimisation using analytical and numerical methods. Work closely with manufacturing, test and flight operations teams to ensure designs are practical, manufacturable and robust. Support structural testing, qualification activities and flight campaigns. Collaborate with aerodynamics, systems, avionics and propulsion engineers to deliver integrated vehicle solutions. Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, methodologies and standards. About You You're a practical engineer who enjoys turning ideas into hardware. You thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership of your work, and enjoy solving difficult problems alongside other high-performing engineers. You are comfortable working across disciplines, engaging directly with manufacturing and testing, and balancing engineering excellence with speed of execution. Your Capabilities A degree in

At Dawn Aerospace, we are building the Aurora, a reusable rocket-powered spaceplane designed to make access to space as routine as aviation. Having demonstrated the technology through an intensive research and development programme, we are now entering the next phase of our journey, transforming how we build aircraft so that production can scale from prototypes to multiple spaceplanes per year. We are seeking an experienced industrialization visionary to lead this transformation. This is a senior and foundational role responsible for establishing the manufacturing vision, production systems, and operational processes that will enable Dawn Aerospace’s spaceplane program to transition from an engineering-led R&D organisation into a repeatable, efficient, and scalable production business. You will work across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, programme management, and leadership to define how products move from design into production while ensuring manufacturability, quality, and delivery remain at the centre of every decision. Reporting to the VP of Spaceplanes, this role interfaces across the entire organisation. You will identify the organisational, technical, and operational changes required to support higher production rates while maintaining the agility that has enabled rapid innovation. You will develop production strategies, manufacturing standards, industrialisation plans, production readiness criteria, and continuous improvement initiatives that allow Dawn to confidently build multiple spaceplanes each year. Success in this role requires someone who has previously helped scale a complex engineering organisation from prototype development into serial production. You will be equally comfortable developing long-term manufacturing strategies, designing production systems, and working directly alongside engineers and technicians to solve practical problems. Your success will be determined by the systems you build which should be both agile and complian

Our Mission: Fly to space twice in a day. At Dawn Aerospace, we're building a future where access to space is as routine as air travel. Our Aurora spaceplane programme is developing a rapidly reusable, rocket-powered aircraft capable of transforming how humanity reaches space. This isn't a programme for people who want to spend years analysing a small part of a large aircraft. This is an opportunity to work on flight-critical structures for one of the most ambitious aerospace projects in the world, seeing your analysis directly influence the design, testing and flight of real hardware. We're looking for a Structural Analyst to join our Spaceplane team in Christchurch. You'll play a key role in developing and validating the structures that enable routine, scalable and sustainable access to space. Working alongside world-class engineers across aerodynamics, propulsion, avionics, systems, composites and manufacturing, you'll help solve some of the toughest structural challenges in aerospace while contributing directly to hardware that flies. What you will do Perform structural analysis and validation of composite and metallic airframe structures and components. Develop analytical and finite element models to predict structural performance under flight, ground and test loading conditions. Evaluate the static strength, stiffness, stability, fatigue and damage tolerance of composite and metallic structures. Develop structural load cases and certification substantiation approaches. Plan and execute materials testing programmes to characterise and validate material properties in support of structural analysis, optimisation and certification activities. Support structural test planning, execution and correlation activities, including investigation of structural anomalies and failures. Collaborate closely with design engineers to optimise structures for weight, performance and manufacturability. Support design reviews and technical decision-making throughout the product lifec