Principal Engineer Manufacturing (MPE)
- Location:
- Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
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Our Aerospace Structures Business Unit is seeking an Principal Engineer Manufacturing to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will support our Manufacturing Process Engineering (MPE) team and will be located in Iuka, MS.
This role will support manufacturing of large composite structures, repairs, work instructions and shop aids. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Interpreting customer furnished drawings and specifications, author work instructions for fabrication, work closely with program office, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, training and operations to solve production high driver defects. The selected candidate will be identified as a composites subject matter expert and provide manufacturing support to multiple programs.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in STEM with 5 years’ experience in production assembly/fabrication or production manufacturing operations; OR high school diploma with a minimum of 13 years’ experience in production assembly/fabrication or production manufacturing operations
- Firm understanding of composites fabrication (i.e. drilling, countersinking, repairs, hand layup, automated layup, curing, bagging)
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret as well as Program Special access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs
- Ability to travel 10-15% of the time
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active Special Program Access
- Experience with MES,PWI,VWI, MRB
- Experience in working with aerospace specifications and requirements