Senior Build Engineer

Amca • El Segundo, CA

91d

About The Position

The Advanced Manufacturing Company of America (“Amca”) is a legacy business, built for the future. We’re putting engineers back in charge of aerospace and defense and rapidly delivering what the industry needs next. You will take new product designs and bring them to life. You will concurrently design Amca products and manufacturing processes with the Design and Test Engineering teams. You’ll provide engineering knowledge to quickly execute new product designs and manufacture them at our production facilities to expand Amca’s product catalog.

Requirements

• Exceptionally curious and fast learner
• Able to contribute across diverse part categories and manufacturing processes
• Demonstrated ability to use engineering first principles to challenge and simplify requirements
• Hands-on and practical - comfortable building, testing, and troubleshooting in real-world environments
• Independent and creative; thrives with ownership and minimal oversight
• Experience with mechanical design as well as manufacturing processes, applying first-principles thinking to structural, thermal, material and production constraints
• Proficient in CAD, PLM/PDM systems, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and Materials & Processing (M&P)
• Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR regulations

Responsibilities

• Own prototyping and first builds of new hardware designs
• Work with Design Engineering teams to understand end-use applications and challenge requirements as needed
• Take full ownership of manufacturing and build of new product designs
• Prototype new components with manufacturability, integration, and performance as core constraints
• Work with Test Engineering teams to assist in creating any test tooling needed
• Work closely with Design Engineers to ensure that new designs are manufacturable at production facilities, and that DFM feedback is implemented
• Manage tooling configurations (drawing revisions, BOM structure, and part configuration) in accordance with aerospace standards and internal design and documentation controls
• Provide continuous feedback to Amca engineering teams to ensure that products and processes are fully optimized for reliability and cost
• Support build and manufacturing processes in our internal shops
• Assist with equipment selection and equipment onboarding
• Own manufacturing processes as the subject matter expert
• Support Amca with subsidiary diligence and company development
• Evaluate product catalogs to help determine where the largest opportunities lie for catalog expansion
• Assist in the evaluation of subsidiary design and manufacturing engineering
• Work with cross functional engineering teams to expand manufacturing capabilities

What This Job Offers