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Associate Manufacturing Engineer
Merritt Island, United States
Payrate: $52.00 - $58.00/hr.
Summary:
We are building a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to building the road to space! This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require dedication and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join our manufacturing engineering team as we lower the cost of access to space and enable Company’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.
As part of a diverse and hardworking team of manufacturing engineers, we provide technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Our responsibilities include translating engineering intent, drawings, and configurations into fully functional hardware ready for test, qualification, and flight. Throughout the manufacturing process, we are responsible to improve quality, reduce cost, and to optimize build sequence. Our team also creates, interprets, and modifies work instructions and routings to convey procedures to technicians and trigger material planning.
If you share our passions and vision, thrive in a dynamic startup environment, excel with integrated multi-functional teams of diverse individuals, are experienced and skilled in several relevant technologies (even if perhaps not in the aerospace industry), and continuously seek out opportunities to learn and improve, then we would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
- Develop manufacturing work instructions to clearly define the following manufacturing processes: fabrication, assembly, and integration.
- Manage quality, build sequence, and schedule for hardware manufacturing processes.
- Perform engineering drawing impact assessments, reviews and approvals for manufacturing.
- Disposition non-conformance repair and rework activities.
- Design proper material handling and packaging solutions to protect hardware.
- Manage hardware configuration and steward build and test pedigrees.
- Closely manage cost, quality, build sequence, and schedule of hardware throughout the entire manufacturing process
- Support the manufacturing floor in assembly and installation, compliance to engineering requirements, discrepancy resolution, and component acceptance testing.
- Perform a hands-on engineering and liaison role between our design, test, and operations teams and our manufacturing customers.
- Investigate root causes, disposition vehicle discrepancies, and take ownership of preventative and corrective actions.
- Drive design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA).
Qualifications:
- BS in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Aerospace Engineering (other relevant fields may apply) from an accredited university
- 3 or more years direct manufacturing and manufacturing engineering experience.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment supporting constantly evolving design iterations
- demonstrated ability in component fabrication, precision assembly, and testing using a variety of methods, techniques, and materials
- Ability to interpret engineering models, drawings, specifications, written work instructions, and test procedures
- Strong aptitude for mechanical system design and hands-on fabrication experience
- Experience with designing, measuring, modifying, and monitoring processes
- Comfortable working with computers and engineering software
- Ability to communicate clearly and appropriately at all levels of the organization
- Exceptional organizational, analytical, and project management skills, particularly in regards to attention to detail
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion
Desired Skills:
- Aerospace/Launch vehicle experience.
- Broad experience in hardware manufacturing: welding, assembly, integration, instrumentation, cleaning, packaging, fabrication, machining, etc.
- General proficiency with CAD.
- Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems/Software and processes
- Knowledge of fabrication processes, integration processes, systems engineering practices, test, quality, and configuration management systems
- Understanding of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma
- Familiar with applicable industry standards
Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $52.00 - $58.00 per hour. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience and the benefits package you select. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, 10 paid days off, 401(k) plan participation, commuter benefits and life and disability insurance.
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