Senior Principal Engineer, Engineering Excellence (Onsite)
About The Position
This Engineer plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of the Wheel & Brake business through strategic leadership in variation analysis and advanced inspection innovation. The role strengthens the reliability, manufacturability, and long-term competitiveness of carbon–carbon products, influences critical decisions across leadership and key functional groups, and helps define future materials and inspection technologies. The Engineer drives strategic variation-reduction initiatives and advances inspection capabilities across multiple carbon–carbon brake manufacturing production areas. The role provides hands-on technical leadership in Variation Modes & Effects Analysis (VMEA) to support manufacturing consistency, improved product performance, and proactive risk identification across textiles, furnace deck, machine shop, coating, and riveting operations. As a technical lead, the Engineer works with senior leadership, Operations, Quality, Engineering, R&D, and external partners to influence strategic decisions and address current manufacturing needs while building capabilities for carbon–carbon manufacturing and inspection technologies across global sites. The position is onsite in Pueblo, Colorado.
Requirements
- Typically requires a STEM degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and at least 7 years of experience.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related discipline.
- 2–5 years of experience in a chemical or composite manufacturing environment.
- Aerospace manufacturing experience.
- Experience with aircraft programs or technical project management.
- Data mining or advanced statistical modeling experience.
- Experience in formal technical writing, such as engineering documentation, capital requests, or leadership presentations.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic analysis of process and product variation across carbon–carbon production areas to identify trends, risks, and high-impact improvement opportunities.
- Analyze data to determine variation drivers and support VMEA documentation of modes, effects, and risks for leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Develop nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods for carbon–carbon materials and brake disk inspection.
- Meet with external vendors and partners to explore emerging inspection and measurement technologies and influence technical direction.
- Write, justify, and submit Capital Acquisition Requests for equipment intended to improve measurement, inspection, and variation control.
- Collaborate with Operations, Quality, EH&S, Engineering, and R&D to align variation insights, corrective actions, and long-term initiatives.
- Coordinate with carbon–carbon teams at Spokane and Santa Fe Springs to maintain consistency in shared processes, technologies, and best practices.
- Present risks, trends, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
- Maintain an understanding of manufacturing sequences to interpret variation behavior and recommend corrective actions.
- Develop measurement, inspection, and variation-control methods to strengthen process capability, product quality, and business competitiveness.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
- 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and a separate employer retirement contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
- Student Loan Repayment Program.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Optional pet, home and auto, additional life and accident, critical illness, group legal, and identity theft protection coverage.
- Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.
- Autism health, fertility, and family planning benefits.
- Adoption assistance.
- Autism benefit.
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
- Healthy You Incentives wellness rewards program.
- Doctor on Demand virtual doctor visits.
- Bright Horizons child and elder care services.
- Teladoc Medical Experts second-opinion program.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, subject to eligibility and program conditions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
