Lead Precision Machinist – Aerospace Propulsion

Canada Rocket Company; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Canada Rocket Company is seeking a Principal Machinist to stand up and run the shop at our Etobicoke head office. You will program and operate CNC mills and lathes, set up tooling, and supervise shop technicians while collaborating with propulsion and structures teams to deliver flight hardware.

In this hands-on role you’ll tackle difficult parts, design for manufacturability, maintain tight tolerances on aluminum, copper, Inconel and more, and drive build quality from concept through to first

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional machining experience.
• Hands-on CNC programming and operation, from setup through to finished part.
• Experience machining a range of materials, including difficult alloys, and holding tight tolerances.
• Ability to read drawings and GD&T, and to inspect your own work using precision measurement tools.
• A proven problem solver: you work out how to make difficult parts and you take ownership of the result.
• Willingness to work with designers and engineers, explain what is hard and what is easy, and suggest ways to make parts better.
• Ability to work with Controlled Goods and to obtain a Controlled Goods Program security assessment.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and limited infrastructure, in a test-early, iterate-fast program.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and run the shop.
• Commission CRC’s machine tools, including CNC mills and lathes, manual machines, and supporting equipment.
• Support lay out the shop and specify its supporting infrastructure: power, air, coolant, chip and swarf handling, tool storage, workholding, cutting tools, and metrology.
• Establish shop practices for safety, housekeeping, tool management, job tracking, and handling of Controlled Goods.
• Own the shop’s equipment, tooling, and consumables plan, and grow capability as the program scales.
• Program and operate CNC machines to produce propulsion and vehicle parts in aluminum, copper alloys, stainless steels, Inconel, and other materials.
• Use manual mills and lathes where they are the fastest and best way to get the job done: one-offs, fixtures, quick-turn fixes, and rework.
• Finish-machine interfaces, sealing surfaces, and critical features on additively manufactured parts.
• Inspect your work and deliver parts to drawing, with the quality that flight and hot-fire hardware demands.
• Work out how to make difficult parts: thin walls, deep features, tight tolerances, and tough alloys. Design the fixturing, tooling, and process sequence needed.
• Troubleshoot machining, tooling, and process problems quickly, and keep hardware moving at the pace our test campaign demands.
• Look for the better way, and share what you learn so the whole shop improves.
• Design for manufacturability
• Work with designers early to show them what is possible, what is difficult, and what is easy.
• Suggest design changes that reduce cost, lead time, and risk, and say so plainly when a feature will be a problem to make.
• Review drawings and tolerances for producibility, and help the team build a shared understanding of the shop’s capabilities and limits.
• Lead the shop team
• Supervise the test engineers and shop technicians who manufacture tooling and work in the shop.
• Train team members in safe machine operation and good machining practice, and set the standard for quality and care.
• Prioritize work with the Head of Propulsion so the most critical hardware gets made first.

Skills

5+ years machining

CNC programming

Reading drawings & GD&T

Problem solving

Design for manufacturability

Team leadership

Controlled Goods familiarity

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Machinist or Tool & Die certification (Red Seal)

Tools

NX CAM

Master CAM

CNC mills & lathes

EDM (wire/sinker)

CMM inspection

Job description

Canada Rocket Company is seeking a Principal Machinist to stand up and run the shop at our Etobicoke head office. You will program and operate CNC mills and lathes, set up tooling, and supervise shop technicians while collaborating with propulsion and structures teams to deliver flight hardware.

In this hands-on role you’ll tackle difficult parts, design for manufacturability, maintain tight tolerances on aluminum, copper, Inconel and more, and drive build quality from concept through to first