Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer: CAD & Process Improvement

Firefly Aerospace; Briggs (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

Parental leave

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

Short-term disability

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace in Briggs, Texas, is seeking a manufacturing engineer to bridge the machine shop with engineering, ensuring timely, cost-efficient production of rocket components from CAD models to tangible assemblies. You will help design-for-manufacture, refine processes, and collaborate across teams to optimize cycle times.

The role emphasizes CAD/CAM work, GD&T expertise, CNC setup, and a strong drive to build, test, and iterate hardware in a leading space company environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or 5+ years in a machine shop.
• Experience with CAD software: Pro-E, CATIA, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, or NX.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a passion for building things.
• Advanced GD&T understanding per ASME Y14.5.
• Ability to develop CAD models and drawings.

Responsibilities

• Act as liaison between the machine shop and the engineering team.
• Provide feedback to engineers to ensure time- and cost-efficient production methods.
• Ensure on time delivery of rocket components from CAD models to assemblies ready for testing.
• Research new manufacturing methods and production-related processes.
• Work with the design team to ensure manufacturability of components.
• Manage lookaheads for long lead tasks.
• Improve processes and cycle times.
• Implement quick changeover improvements.
• Be fully accountable for a set of hardware.
• Create work instructions.
• Identify issues with quality and coordinate corrective actions.
• Work with Tooling and Programming to ensure job readiness.
• Conceptual design and sourcing of work holding.

Skills

People skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

Pro-E / Creo

CATIA

Autodesk Inventor

SolidWorks

NX

CNC Programming

Job description

Firefly Aerospace in Briggs, Texas, is seeking a manufacturing engineer to bridge the machine shop with engineering, ensuring timely, cost-efficient production of rocket components from CAD models to tangible assemblies. You will help design-for-manufacture, refine processes, and collaborate across teams to optimize cycle times.

The role emphasizes CAD/CAM work, GD&T expertise, CNC setup, and a strong drive to build, test, and iterate hardware in a leading space company environment.