Manufacturing Engineer, Machine Shop

Firefly Aerospace; Briggs (TX); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

Parental leave

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

Short-term disability

Flexible PTO

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

People skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Herramientas

Pro-E / Creo

CATIA

Autodesk Inventor

SolidWorks

NX

CNC Programming

Descripción del empleo

About Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company on a mission to reliably and repeatedly launch, land, and operate space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the first company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Location for this role is at our Manufacturing site in Briggs, TX, 25 minutes north of Cedar Park, TX.

Responsibilities

• Act as liaison between the machine shop and the engineering team.
• Provide feedback to responsible engineers and ensure the most time-efficient and cost-efficient method of producing components
• Ensure on time delivery of rocket components from CAD models to tangible components/assemblies ready for testing.
• Research new manufacturing methods and production related processes
• Work with the design team to ensure manufacturability of the 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, work with quality to provide and execute corrective actions
• Work with Tooling and Programming to ensure job readiness
• Conceptual design and sourcing of work holding

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or 5+ years of experience working in a machine shop environment implementing the aforementioned responsibilities
• Experience with CAD software such as Pro-E, CATIA, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, or NX.
• Exceptional people interaction skills
• A passion for creating, building, and making things happen
• Advanced level of understanding of GD&T per ASME Y14.5 Standards
• Ability to develop CAD models and create engineering drawings

Desired

• Direct experience with process development in:CastingForgingMetallic 3D printingSheet metal
• Experience with budgetary and schedule planning
• Some CNC Programming experience
• Tooling expertise
• Experience programming CNC machines
• Experience setting up and running CNC machines
• Data analysis
• Capacity planning
• Startup experience

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.