Machining Specialist III

About the Team:  

The Engine Manufacturing team is dedicated to delivering high-performance engines and advancing innovative manufacturing systems that continuously improve cost, quality, and lead time. You’re not just executing on designs; you actively provide input that shapes new hardware iterations and regularly interface with engineers to make critical decisions for the Aeon R program. Having successfully developed and refined processes for our initial development engines, the team is now focused on producing flight engines at rate for Terran R’s aggressive launch manifest.

About the Role: 

• Create Process Plans, Standard Operating Procedures, Inspection Plans, Work Holding Designs, and other supporting documents to define the process to manufacture parts.
• Improve manufacturing processes through developing and deploying new technologies and methodologies.
• Advise on Design for Manufacturability methodologies to upstream partners.
• Articulate manufacturing, fixturing, and inspection method for a design concepts, GD&T requirements, and datum structures to inform design choices. 
• Recommend novel designs or design updates to improve manufacturability
• Analyze and improve processes that create non-conforming hardware. Investigate root causes and determine corrective actions.  

About You:  

• 8 years of progressive and related CNC Machining experience required 
• Knowledge of machining and GD&T  
• Proficiency in CAD and CAM software
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, lean principles, and continuous improvement methodologies 

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Knowledge of metrology and dimensional inspection methods
• Knowledge of fixture design and stack-ups analysis