Sr. Engineering Technician-Manufacturing

AXILLON AEROSPACE   is a leading provider of complex, highly engineered composite and polymer solutions for demanding commercial and defense applications. Comprised of six, purpose-built centers of excellence throughout the USA and Mexico, each strategically focused on serving specific markets across aerospace engines and airframes, as well as munitions, radomes, antennas and fuel containment.

Job Summary :

The Sr. Engineering Technician-Manufacturing is responsible for the activities associated with development, implementation and maintenance of composite manufacturing methods, processes and operations for new and existing composite aerospace products and assemblies. This includes ensuring the effective use of materials, equipment in producing quality products that meet customer requirements at minimum costs.   The Engineering Technician position develops, implements and maintain methods, operation sequence and processes in the manufacture and fabrication of parts which will include the estimation of manufacturing costs, time standards and the ability to recommend tooling and process requirements for new and existing products.   Additionally, the Sr. Manufacturing Engineering technician will provide high level technical expertise to integrated product team members for thermal processing of polymer matrix materials, tooling design and maintenance other engineering functions as required.

Responsibilities :

• Technical design and Engineering responsibility for identified or assigned project tasks
• Conceptual composite molding and fabrication process flow and associated generation of CAD parts, assemblies, and drawings as required to support production tooling for molding, assembly, and inspection. Design, implement, and review of production tooling and fixtures.
• Daily interaction with Engineering team members to support internal and external projects. Interfacing with Engineering Director when high risk items are needing additional consultation to reduce manufacturing risk; however, this should be limited as this role shall have the experience and expertise to solve problems on their own.
• Provides technical guidance to Engineers without composite and composite processing knowledge in support of the production processes.
• Research and selection of equipment, vendors, and consultants that might be required for task resolution.
• Identify, maintain, and control of production processes through SPC and data analysis of KPI’s.
• Provide root cause and corrective action for out of control processes in support of AS9100 and NADCAP requirements.
• Create and review thermal, pressure, and position cure recipes for production processes and provide input to the program engineer when required.
• Strong mechanical aptitude with equipment and tooling, ability to visually inspect components for causes of part defects and assembly issues.
• Creates tooling recall inspection KPI criteria
• Creation of rework procedures for tooling to drawing requirements
• Reworks details using hand tools as required
• Data analysis root cause and corrective action for suspect cure data.
• Presents tooling and equipment improvements internal and external customers

Requirements :

Education & Experience :

Processing techniques such as compression molding, RTM, autoclave, and out of autoclave are a must have

Skills :

Preferred Skills :

450°F) and higher thermoset resin systems

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Salary : $39 - $45