- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Manufacturing
- Posted
- Aug 28, 2026
Production Technician
Job description
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who…
Job responsibilities
- Own assigned production work from start to finish, ensuring assemblies and tests are completed on schedule, meet quality, safety, and manufacturing standards, pass required inspections, and are properly documented.
- Assemble mechanical, electrical, and electro-mechanical systems using approved manufacturing process instructions (MPIs) and specifications, while providing feedback when documentation or processes need clarification…
- Support production changes, prototype builds, and validation activities by quickly learning new processes, adapting to changing requirements, and providing accurate manufacturing feedback.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment by following 5S principles, properly storing, labeling, and accounting for tools, fixtures, gauges, materials, and equipment, and ensuring assigned tools are…
- Manage changing production priorities across multiple lines and manufacturing cells by understanding production demand, build schedules, material availability, configuration changes, deviations, and business needs.
- Complete MES transactions and maintain accurate production records, including work-order completion, material consumption, serial-number traceability, issue documentation, product genealogy, and manufacturing data.
- Generate issue tickets, document manufacturing concerns, identify root causes, and participate in corrective actions and continuous improvement efforts through resolution.
- Communicate production status, risks, blockers, material constraints, quality concerns, improvement opportunities and collaboration with Production Leadership and cross-functional teams.
Job requirements
- Able to lift 30–50 pounds and stand for extended periods while walking, bending, reaching, and performing repetitive tasks in a manufacturing environment.
- Able to use hands and wrists repetitively for extended periods while performing assembly, testing, and other production activities.
- Able to wear required PPE, including respirators, safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, and steel-toed footwear, as required by assigned work.
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