Job Description:

• 1) Fabricates, assembles, and tests experimental solid fuel rocket motor parts and assemblies according to specifications, using handtools, precision instruments, machines, and test equipment: Reads and interprets blueprints, drawings, and engineering information to determine methods and sequence of operations to fabricate experimental units.

• 2) Sets up and operates machines, such as milling machines, lathes, drill presses, and power saws, to machine parts.

• 3) Measures parts for conformance to specifications, using calipers and micrometers.

• 4) Assembles parts into completed units, such as valves and pressure vessels, using handtools.

• 5) Operates vacuum pressure testing equipment to test assembled units for air leaks.

• 6) Confers with engineering, supervisory, and manufacturing personnel to exchange technical information.

• 7) May mix chemicals used in fabrication of composite materials.

• 8) May operate winding machine to fabricate composite parts for solid fuel rocket motor.

• 9) May specialize in fabricating, assembling, and testing experimental liquid fuel rocket engines and be designated Rocket-Engine Mechanic, Liquid.