• Location: Toronto
• Type: Permanent
• Job #8199
• Salary: NON 160,000

Location: Toronto, Canada

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package + stock options

Imagine joining a launch company at the point where the drawings are about to become concrete, steel, pipework and ultimately a place where rocket engines will fire.

This is not an established aerospace business maintaining infrastructure that already exists. The company is building Canada’s first medium-lift launch vehicle and much of the infrastructure needed to test, develop and launch it still needs to be created.

The team behind it includes veterans of some of the world’s most successful launch, aerospace and engineering organisations, bringing more than a century of combined launch and space systems experience to the programme.

The engineering philosophy is deliberately pragmatic.

A single 725 kN engine will scale from light- to medium-lift through engine clustering. Proven technologies are favoured over unnecessary complexity. Hardware will be tested early and often, finding problems on the test stand rather than discovering them at the launch pad.

And this isn’t a company waiting for funding before it can move.

More than $20M was secured within its first four months, including the largest all-Canadian seed round in the sector and an $8.3M Department of National Defence grant.

Now the infrastructure has to catch up with the ambition.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager who can help turn that ambition into something physical.

Test facilities. Launch infrastructure. Utilities. Equipment. Control systems. Concrete. Conduit.

You’ll take ownership of the technical baseline and integrated execution of the company’s test and launch infrastructure, from detailed design through construction and commissioning.

At many organisations, infrastructure sits quietly in the background.

Here, it is on the critical path.

The engineering decisions you make today will determine what gets built tomorrow and ultimately whether engines can be tested and vehicles can be launched.

You’ll act as the engineering authority for the programme, sitting at the intersection of engineering, procurement, construction and facilities.

You won’t necessarily design every system yourself. Instead, you’ll make sure the entire programme works as one integrated system.

You’ll manage third-party engineering firms across multiple disciplines, own requirements and the integrated schedule, establish the technical baseline and make the engineering decisions that construction and procurement execute against.

The environment is fast-paced, highly autonomous and deliberately lean.

What You’ll Own

You’ll translate programme requirements into engineering scopes, specifications and acceptance criteria, while establishing the change-control processes that keep engineering, procurement and construction working from the same technical baseline.

Third-party engineering firms will look to you as their primary technical interface. You’ll manage their scopes and deliverables, integrate work across disciplines and hold partners accountable for schedule, quality and technical performance.

You’ll own the integrated programme schedule and budget baseline across design, procurement and construction identifying the critical path and making sure long-lead decisions happen before they become programme delays.

When major equipment and systems need to be purchased, you’ll develop the technical specifications and work alongside Supply Chain to evaluate potential vendors.

As designs move towards reality, you’ll run design and constructability reviews alongside Construction and Facilities, resolving RFIs and engineering changes as issues emerge in the field.

And when the infrastructure is finally built, your responsibility doesn’t stop.

You’ll own the technical side of commissioning, defining commissioning plans, acceptance criteria and functional testing before signing off the systems for handover into operational use.

Ultimately, you’ll be the person keeping engineering, procurement, construction and facilities aligned around one technical plan.

The Team Around You

You won’t be doing this alone.

The infrastructure group is intentionally small, with clear ownership across four areas.

Engineering owns the technical baseline.

Supply Chain sources the equipment and manages commercial commitments.

Construction turns the designs into physical infrastructure.

Facilities takes ownership once those systems become operational.

The boundaries are clear, but in a company moving this quickly, collaboration matters more than job titles.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll likely have at least five years’ experience delivering infrastructure, facilities or complex industrial projects within environments such as aerospace, energy, advanced manufacturing or heavy industry.

You’ll have a strong engineering foundation and be comfortable reviewing drawings, specifications and multidisciplinary design packages rather than simply managing a programme from a spreadsheet.

Experience managing external engineering firms is important, as is the ability to hold suppliers and partners accountable for scope, schedule and quality.

You’ll understand integrated schedules and budgets, procurement workflows and equipment commissioning.

Most importantly, you’ll be comfortable operating somewhere where not every process already exists.

In some cases, you’ll be expected to build the process yourself.

Experience with test stands, propulsion infrastructure or hazardous fluid systems would be particularly valuable, as would exposure to instrumentation, DAQ or control architecture.

P.Eng status or eligibility in Ontario would also be advantageous, alongside knowledge of relevant Ontario building and fire codes and Canadian standards.

Why Join?

There aren’t many opportunities where an infrastructure engineer can point to a facility several years from now and say:

“I helped build that from the ground up.”

There are even fewer where the facility you’ve helped create exists to test rocket engines and support a national orbital launch capability.

The company already has the funding, engineering pedigree and launch ambition.

Now it needs the infrastructure to make it real.

That’s where you come in.

 

• Location: Toronto
• Type: Permanent
• Job #8157
• Salary: NON 110,000

Test Mechanical Technician 

Location: London & Toronto, Canada

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package

Build the facility where a new rocket engine will come to life.

We are partnering with an ambitious heavily backed space launch company developing the next generation of launch vehicle technology in Canada.

Backed by significant funding and led by engineers from some of the world’s most successful aerospace and launch organisations, the company is now building the infrastructure required to develop, test and ultimately launch its vehicle.

This isn't a role where you'll spend your day watching hardware from behind a desk. You'll be the person putting your hands on it.

At the heart of the programme is a 725 kN liquid rocket engine — and they are now building the team that will assemble, install, test and ultimately help fire it.

They're looking for hands-on Mechanical Test Technicians to join their propulsion test operation in Canada.

If you've worked around high-pressure systems, cryogenics, fluid systems, turbomachinery, aerospace hardware or complex mechanical equipment, this is an opportunity to take that experience into rocket propulsion.

The Mission

Your job is simple to describe, but difficult to execute:

Make sure the hardware is ready to fire.

You'll work alongside propulsion and test engineers preparing rocket engines and test articles for hot-fire campaigns.

One day you could be mounting an engine onto a test stand. The next you'll be installing instrumentation, connecting high-pressure fluid systems, torquing critical fittings or performing leak and pressure checks before a firing.

When a test is complete, you'll help tear the hardware down, inspect it, identify what survived, what didn't, and prepare everything for the next iteration.

You'll be working directly with hardware operating under extreme pressures, temperatures and loads, where attention to detail genuinely matters.

What You'll Be Doing

• Assemble and disassemble rocket engines, aerospace components and mechanical subassemblies
• Mount engines and test articles onto propulsion test stands
• Install sensors, transducers, thermocouples and instrumentation
• Build and connect fluid and gas systems
• Perform pressure testing and leak checks
• Torque fittings and mechanical interfaces to precise specifications
• Inspect hardware and verify configurations before testing
• Support rocket engine hot-fire campaigns
• Calibrate and check valves, actuators and regulators
• Safely tear down hardware following tests
• Inspect components for damage, wear and anomalies
• Refurbish hardware ready for the next test campaign
• Help build, modify and maintain the wider test facility and test stands
• Work directly with test engineers, quality teams and design engineers to solve problems quickly

What We're Looking For

You don't necessarily need to have worked on rockets before.

We're interested in people from aerospace, aviation, oil & gas, defence, automotive, industrial testing, manufacturing or other demanding mechanical environments where safety and precision matter.

You'll ideally bring:

• 2+ years of hands-on mechanical assembly, maintenance or technician experience
• Experience working with mechanical or fluid systems
• Ability to read engineering drawings, schematics and technical instructions
• Confidence using hand tools, power tools and precision measuring equipment
• Experience with torque wrenches, calipers and micrometers
• Knowledge of plumbing, tubing and fittings such as AN/MS/JIC
• Understanding of mechanical assembly, fasteners and safety wiring
• Strong attention to detail and a safety-first mindset

Particularly Interesting Experience

If you've worked with any of the following, we'd especially like to hear from you:

High-pressure systems • Cryogenic fluids • Rocket propulsion • Test stands • Turbomachinery • Propellants • Pneumatics • Hydraulics • Pressure vessels • Instrumentation • Valves & regulators • Tube bending • Oxygen systems • Welding/brazing • Rigging & cranes

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a rocket programme while the test capability is still being built — not after everything has already been established.

You'll help build the facility, install the hardware, support the test campaigns and watch systems you've physically worked on come alive during hot-fire testing.

And ultimately, the hardware you help assemble and qualify is being developed for one purpose:

Getting a new launch vehicle to orbit.

If you're a hands-on mechanical technician who has spent your career around serious hardware and you've ever wondered what it would be like to apply those skills to rocket engines, I'd love to hear from you.