Tooling Maintainer (Composites) - Level 4/5

Benefits

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Salary

$40-$49/hr From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$55,206 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+5.5% - Faster than average

68% above the BLS role benchmark for trades aggregate.

Matched to SOC 49-9071 - Trades aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Trades From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Company

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Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Tooling Maintainer (Composites) - Level 4/5 Hawthorne, CA SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. TOOLING MAINTAINER (COMPOSITES) - LEVEL 4/5 RESPONSIBILITIES: - Perform preventative and corrective maintenance on all custom SpaceX tooling - Inspect and create detailed analysis and assessment of precision tools and machines per engineering requirements - Maintain and repair advanced structures, such as our custom friction stir welding machines, metallic layup tools, and high-capacity test stands. - Plan work to be performed and determine methods and sequence of operations, working from tool design drawings or our own designs - Lay out, fabricate, and assemble a variety of standard and nonstandard major jigs, fixtures, tool masters, master tooling gauges, and related tooling involving compound angles and complex contours, where the establishment and coordination to exacting tolerances of numerous dimensional features and reference points between several planes - Develop and design holding devices, jig, and fixture details - Suggest changes in design involving practicability, economy, and process of manufacture to the proper personnel - Make determinations regarding fabrication and design of detail parts such as fittings, stops, locating pins, and mechanical operation of jigs, and submit them for approval to proper personnel - Set up and operate optical instruments to check overall and detailed alignment, fit, or adjustment

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