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Job Title: Sr Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer – Composites

Job Code: 32280

Job Location: Huntsville, AL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Missile Solutions, an L3Harris Technologies Company is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer- Composites working at our headquarters in Huntsville, AL. We have two Advanced Manufacturing Facilities for inert components in Huntsville, AL and we are expanding to accommodate an increase in rocket motor production.  We use advanced composite manufacturing techniques to include pre-preg tape wrap, wet tape wrap, compression molding, injection molding, and hand layup composite manufacturing techniques to manufacture components and structures for solid rocket motors and aerospace structures.

This position will support all programs in composite manufacturing.  The selected individual will participate in all work stops, production bottleneck reviews, and failure investigations pertaining to composite manufacturing.

This position will be a dynamic position – moving from various programs to assess production, production bottlenecks, failures, non-conformances, and technology to increase yield and production throughput.

Essential Functions:

• Review/update Standard Operating Procedures related to composite structure manufacturing. 
• Evaluate and implement tractable solutions to technical problems involving tape wrapped composite pressure vessel.
• Interprets engineering drawings and specifications, standard operating procedures, quality requirements (both customer and company), and applicable safety requirements for handling composite material.
• Prepares comprehensive analyses, procedures, reports, and presentations for customer reviews (both internal and external).
• Knowledge of composite manufacturing techniques.
• Travel: 25.
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 6 years of prior Manufacturing Engineering composite processing experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior Manufacturing Engineering composite processing experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior Manufacturing Engineering composite processing experience. 

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Degree in material science, composites, or related science is preferred.
• Tape wrap experience is preferred.
• Technical experience in the composite manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Tooling or component design using various CAD software packages.
• 3d printing techniques and experience.
• Experience with composite molding techniques, statistical analysis, data acquisition is a plus.
• Composite theory, compositions, and modeling are a plus.

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