Senior Manufacturing Engineer

A lead role owning everything that happens to metal additive manufacturing (3D printed) parts after the print, at an early stage company making production parts for customers.

You’d take over customer programs early in a small team. You take the printed part, decide how it gets to spec and write it up so operations can repeat it.

Responsibilities

• Defining the post processing route for new customer parts – support removal, stress relief, heat treatment, wire EDM cut off, CNC machining, blasting and surface finishing, CMM inspection
• Designing fixtures, work holding and datum features for machining near net shape AM parts
• Leading root cause analysis and corrective action (RCCA, 8D, FMEA) when parts distort, crack or drift out of tolerance
• Feeding DfAM changes back to the print team so parts are easier to machine and inspect
• Writing SOPs, work instructions and inspection plans that go to operations once a part is qualified
• Supporting first article inspection, process validation and part qualification for customers in aerospace, medical, automotive and industrial
• Managing outside vendors for HIP, coatings and specialist finishing, and bringing in new post processing technology

Requirements

• Hands on metal additive manufacturing experience where you’ve owned the post processing route yourself – laser powder bed fusion (LPBF, DMLS, SLM) ideally, binder jetting or DED fits too
• Working knowledge of how AM alloys behave through heat treatment and machining – titanium, nickel alloys like Inconel 718, stainless or aluminum
• Real examples of root cause analysis you’ve led
• Enough manufacturing engineering experience to define a process from scratch, usually 6+ years
• CAD (SolidWorks or similar) and GD&T
• US citizen or permanent resident