About this role
Job Requirements What You will Do:
• Own and support daily heat treat and weld engineering operations, ensuring processes consistently meet material, quality, and customer specifications. • Develop, troubleshoot, and optimize thermal processes, including hardening, tempering, annealing, quenching, and controlled cooling, establishing appropriate furnace temperatures, soak times, and cooling rates. • Lead pyrometry and heat treat process control activities in accordance with AMS 2750, NADCAP, and applicable internal standards. • Maintain and optimize gas, vacuum, induction, and other heat treat equipment through equipment tuning, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and calibration practices. • Evaluate heat-treated material and components for grain structure, hardness, surface/core defects, distortion, cracking, soft spots, and other process-related conditions, and develop corrective solutions. • Support troubleshooting of manufacturing issues, including warping, cracking, distortion, and material property variation, and implement corrective actions to improve process performance. • Develop, standardize, and improve welding processes and documentation, including Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS), Procedure Qualification Records (PQR), weld parameters, and related process controls. • Partner with manufacturing and quality teams to establish, maintain, and standardize welding and heat treat processes in support of NADCAP accreditation and ongoing compliance. • Investigate process and material defects, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions in collaboration with Quality and Operations. • Provide technical guidance on material behavior, metallurgy, welding, heat treatment, and resulting material properties to manufacturing, quality, and other cross-functional teams. • Create, maintain, and approve materials and process specifications, engineering documents, work instructions, material notes, and related technical documentation for aerospace materials and manufacturing processes. • Manage documentation, traceability, and process records for heat treat and weld operations while ensuring compliance with applicable NADCAP, AS9100, ASTM, AMS, and customer requirements. • Drive digitization and process improvements for manufacturing data and workflows using systems such as Solumina, SAP, and Teamcenter. • Identify and implement improvements that increase process repeatability, reduce variation, improve quality, and increase manufacturing throughput. • Develop technical solutions to complex manufacturing and materials problems requiring engineering judgment, ingenuity, and creative problem-solving. • Work directly on the manufacturing shop floor to troubleshoot process bottlenecks, determine root causes, and implement practical engineering solutions. • Support customer and internal engineering activities, including technical reviews, audits, corrective actions, and communication of complex technical concepts to cross-functional teams. How You Will Get Here:
• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Metallurgy, Materials Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field, or 3–5 years of relevant aerospace/manufacturing experience. • Minimum of 1 year of experience in heat treatment, welding, materials engineering, or a related manufacturing environment; 3–5 years preferred for independent engineering responsibilities. • Working knowledge of heat treat processes, pyrometry, and process controls, including AMS 2750 requirements. • Familiarity with NADCAP Heat Treat and Welding, including pyrometry requirements and weld process qualification. • Knowledge of applicable industry and aerospace standards, including AMS 2750, ASTM, MMPDS, CMH-17, AS9100, and related customer specifications. • Experience developing, reviewing, or standardizing WPS, PQR, welding parameters, and welding process documentation is preferred. • Experience working with SAP, Solumina, and Teamcenter or similar manufacturing and engineering systems. • Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex engineering tasks, troubleshoot manufacturing processes, and interface with customers and cross-functional teams. • Strong interpersonal, communication, and technical writing skills, with the ability to communicate complex engineering concepts effectively. • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and directly support shop-floor operations. Pay Range: $80,000 - $95,000 Work Requirements: This role is considered an on-site, first shift position located in Windsor Locks, CT.
• You must be able to commute to and from the location with your own transportation arrangements to meet the required working first shift hours (7:30am – 4:00pm). • Shop floor environment, which may include but not limited to extensive walking, and ability to lift up to 40 lbs. Citizenship requirement: Due to the nature of the work, U.S. citizenship is required Travel requirements: Due to the nature of the work, 5% of travel is required Benefits: · 401(K) · 401(K) matching · Dental Insurance · Health Insurance · Paid time off · Vision Insurance