Manufacturing Engineering I

Blue Canyon Technologies • Boulder, CO

6d • $70,000 - $100,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX's small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, builds, tests, and operates spacecraft for defense, commercial, and civil organizations. The Manufacturing Engineer I develops and implements manufacturing processes for building, testing, and delivering spacecraft and spacecraft components.

This is a full-time, on-site position at the company's Boulder, Colorado location; work locations may change based on business needs. The role operates in a professional office environment within a manufacturing company and uses standard office equipment. The listed pay range is $70,000–$100,000, with the pay rate determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and market data.

Requirements

• A BS or AAS degree in an engineering field, or 0–5 or more years of related aerospace experience; related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education.
• Proficiency interpreting technical engineering drawings, bills of material, and technical documents, including test and integration procedures.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong written communication, oral presentation skills, and the ability to lead group discussions with internal and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Refine, modify, or provide input on applications, processes, and designs to meet manufacturing and test requirements; analyze statistical data and implement improvements that meet contract, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Provide hands-on support for products and processes.
• Own manufacturing build schedules that meet program schedule milestones.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for manufacturing non-conforming product, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, failure investigations, and corrective actions.
• Review drawings, assembly instructions, work orders, and engineering change orders for completeness; implement engineering changes and corrective actions.
• Assist cognizant engineers in creating mechanical and electrical assembly instructions, standardizing them across projects and products, and streamlining hardware workflow through work centers.
• Update designs in response to manufacturing issues, parts obsolescence, and system requirement changes.
• Contribute to or present technical data at technical exchange meetings, manufacturing and test readiness reviews, and program status reviews with program managers and customers.
• Collaborate with design engineering, test engineering, quality assurance, supply chain management, work centers, and outside suppliers; maintain rapport with internal and external customers.
• Assist with tooling design and validation.
• Own and maintain a common parts list that is readily supported by manufacturing.
• Use in-house business systems, including configuration data management tools, the Manufacturing Execution System, MRP, manufacturing shop-floor control, and internal status reporting.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• Employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% matching when contributing at least 5%.
• Three weeks of vacation, three floating holidays, two weeks of sick time, and seven paid holidays per year.
• Parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree