Cleanroom Support Specialist

ABOUT

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company on a mission to reliably and repeatedly launch, land, and operate space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the first company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

As a Cleanroom Support Technician at Firefly Aerospace, you will provide hands-on inventory, material, and operational support for our spacecraft cleanroom and production environments. A key focus of this role will be supporting the setup and ongoing operation of a new cleanroom, ensuring technicians have the hardware, consumables, tools, and materials needed to execute spacecraft assembly and integration activities efficiently.

You will be responsible for cleanroom stocking, inventory organization and accuracy, hardware receiving and staging, kitting, material movement, and maintaining appropriate storage locations and traceability. Working closely with Production, Assembly, Integration & Test (AI&T), Supply Chain, Quality, and Facilities, you will help keep the cleanroom organized, properly supplied, and ready to support production.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the initial setup and organization of the new spacecraft cleanroom, including establishing inventory locations, stocking areas, material flow, and cleanroom supply organization.
• Maintain day-to-day cleanroom inventory and stocking levels, ensuring technicians have the consumables, hardware, and production materials needed to perform scheduled work.
• Monitor inventory levels and proactively replenish cleanroom consumables and production supplies to prevent production delays.
• Create and process pick tickets, locate and retrieve hardware, and deliver materials to production technicians based on build schedules and priorities.
• Receive, inspect, verify, and properly store incoming hardware, ensuring quantities, condition, identification, and documentation are accurate.
• Stage and kit hardware for spacecraft production and integration activities, ensuring kits are complete, accurate, and ready when technicians need them.
• Maintain accurate inventory counts, storage locations, and material transactions while ensuring hardware traceability throughout the production process.
• Package completed Manufacturing Orders (MOs) into approved storage containers and transfer completed hardware into the appropriate inventory or downstream production location.
• Maintain clean, organized, FOD-conscious, and production-ready cleanroom storage and material staging areas in accordance with contamination control and ESD requirements.
• Safely move hardware, tanks, compressed gas products, and other production equipment into and out of cleanroom environments using appropriate material-handling practices.
• Assist with transferring production hardware into the centralized Hive inventory location and maintain accurate, organized storage locations as operations scale.
• Provide additional hardware logistics support as needed, including packaging, vendor processing, shipment coordination, and movement of spacecraft hardware.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 2+ years of experience in inventory, material handling, production support, manufacturing operations, warehouse operations, aerospace, or another technically regulated environment.
• Experience receiving, stocking, organizing, staging, kitting, or tracking production materials or hardware.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate inventory counts, storage locations, and documentation.
• Ability to safely handle and move hardware, materials, and production equipment.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize requests in a fast-paced production environment.
• Ability to follow established cleanroom, safety, material handling, and inventory procedures.

Desired

• Experience working in aerospace, spacecraft, defense, semiconductor, medical device, or another high-reliability manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience working in a cleanroom, contamination-controlled, ESD-sensitive, or FOD-controlled environment.
• Experience with inventory management, ERP/MRP, warehouse management, or manufacturing execution systems.
• Experience with pick tickets, Manufacturing Orders, bills of material, kitting, and hardware traceability.
• Familiarity with cleanroom consumables, gowning requirements, contamination control, and ESD practices.
• Experience helping establish or organize a new inventory, warehouse, production, or cleanroom space.
• Experience supporting spacecraft Assembly, Integration & Test (AI&T) or similar complex hardware production.

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status