Manufacturing Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or physics.
• At least 1 year of experience in a manufacturing environment; student project team and internship experience qualifies.
• Ability to stand for long durations and work hands-on with hardware on the production floor.
• Comfort with stooping, bending, and standing.
• Position may require occasional travel, long hours, or weekend work.
• To meet ITAR requirements, must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice To Haves

• Strong experience with machining concepts, problems, and hardware production.
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, problem-solving environment.
• Experience in a design or product development engineering role.
• Master's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, or aerospace engineering.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and initiatives in parallel.
• Experience with mechanical component or tooling design and analysis using 3D computer-aided design.
• Experience developing processes from R&D through volume manufacturing.
• Experience writing work instructions and procedures for critical aerospace parts.
• Experience in an aerospace production environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, and implement machining processes to improve engine cost, quality, and production rate, focusing on valve, turbopump, thrust chamber, or injector hardware.
• Work with manufacturing and design engineers, machinists, technicians, and quality teams to establish robust processes and quickly resolve production problems.
• Partner with design to identify and implement design-for-manufacturing updates at the piece-part and system levels, and manage changes into production.
• Implement machining process controls that enable lights-out production and use technologies and programming strategies to reduce in-cycle intervention.
• Own quality for assigned parts or part families, understand quality requirements, and lead projects that ensure dimensions meet requirements with low overhead.
• Move machining processes toward a statistically controlled environment and develop tools to demonstrate process capability.
• Oversee the full machining process, including fixture design and manufacturing, CAM programming and refinement, cutting-tool selection, and inspection and buyoff methods.
• Continuously improve processes, parts, and operations to make engine hardware more manufacturable and reliable.
• Coordinate with production to deliver assigned hardware on time or ahead of schedule.
• Oversee the introduction and implementation of new products and revisions, often handling multiple at once.

Benefits

• Potential eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards.
• Potential discretionary bonuses.
• Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Medical coverage.
• Vision coverage.
• Dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Various other discounts and perks.
• May accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation.
• Eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• Paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy.