Engineering Specialist

Albany International Corp.•Grapevine, TX

10d

About The Position

The Engineering Specialist with Weaving Process focus is responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing the technical execution of internal and customer funded projects directed toward developing, expanding, and maturing AEC’s family of technologies for manufacturing fiber reinforcements for use in advanced composite structures. These technologies currently include 3D Jacquard weaving, conventional 2D weaving, and a variety of special processes such as contour weaving, steered weaving and braiding. The Engineering Specialist is expected to provide technical leadership within the DFW facility, to serve as a technical consultant and to participate in technical reviews.

Requirements

BS in Engineering (preferred Aerospace, Composites, Mechanical), advanced degree is preferred or equivalent from relevant experience
Minimum of 10 years’ experience in composites manufacturing
Technical leadership in a textile-based high-volume manufacturing environment
Expert knowledge and experience with manufacturing processes and related textile-based equipment
Expertise as a design/manufacturing lead for textiles and composites
Structured problem solving skills
Working knowledge or understanding of lean tools such as 5S, Visual Factory, value stream mapping
Proficient in the use of Microsoft software (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel) to enable the creation of work instruction and other production documentation
Knowledge of composite materials mechanical behavior and structural test methods
Experience with textile design, simulation, loom software (e.g., Fibersim, NedGraphics, TexGen, EAT)
Experience with software for statistical analysis (e.g., Minitab, MATLAB, Python)
Team and people skills that are required to ensure efficient execution of tasks
Flexible and adaptable
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Well organized and disciplined
Willingness to perform “hands-on” work in dynamic work setting
Strong Decision-making with ability to set and balance priorities
Project Management

Nice To Haves

Six Sigma certification preferred, but not required

Responsibilities

Develop novel preforming processes using a variety of textile-based and associated methods (e.g., weaving, tufting, braiding, fiber placement, etc.). These materials may include 2D and 3D woven textiles, uni-directional fabrics, preforms utilizing fiber placement, or any combination
Lead the design, verification and validation process of new products, technologies and methods, including material and component fabrication and testing.
Establish working relationships with Customer’s technical staff. Represent AEC’s technical position in meeting with Customers.
Technical lead on proof-of-concept activities that may lead to new production opportunities. Perform risk assessments for these opportunities and develop roadmaps outlining work that must be performed to minimize those risks.
Work closely with manufacturing engineers to identify opportunities for improving existing processes.
Establish process and performance limits; create effective process window maps; distill into effective work instructions for shop floor personnel.
Monitor the industry to identify new techniques and process that may be of interest to AEC.
Provide engineering/technical project updates and communications as needed by internal and external customers.
Provide mentoring and technical leadership to the engineering organization in relevant areas of expertise. Identify and support implementation of organizational process improvement initiatives.
Support technology road-mapping activities.