Manufacturing Engineer, Machine Shop

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.; Texas; In loco; USD 85.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health insurance

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

Paid time off

Descrizione del lavoro

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is seeking a manufacturing engineer to drive component production at our Briggs, TX site.

You will bridge the machine shop and engineering teams, delivering feedback to optimize manufacturability and cost, and ensuring timely CAD-to-assembly handoffs for rocket components. Qualifications include a Bachelor’s in engineering or 5+ years in a machine shop, extensive CAD/GD&T expertise, and experience with casting, forging, 3D printing, and sheet metal.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or 5+ years in a machine shop.
• Proficiency in CAD and GD&T per ASME Y14.5.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Direct experience with casting, forging, metallic 3D printing, and sheet metal processes.

Mansioni

• Act as liaison between machine shop and engineering.
• Provide feedback to engineers to optimize time and cost.
• Ensure on-time delivery from CAD models to finished components/assemblies.
• Research new manufacturing methods and processes.
• Collaborate with design to ensure manufacturability of components.
• Manage lookaheads for long-lead tasks.
• Improve processes and cycle times.
• Own a set of hardware and related responsibilities.
• Create comprehensive work instructions.
• Identify issues with quality and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate with Tooling and Programming for job readiness.
• Spearhead CAD modeling and detailing.

Conoscenze

GD&T

CAD modeling

Engineering drawings

Team collaboration

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

5+ years machine shop experience

Strumenti

Pro-E

CATIA

Autodesk Inventor

SolidWorks

NX

Descrizione del lavoro

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands-on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

• Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
• 3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Mental health services
• Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

• 12 weeks paid maternity leave
• 4 weeks paid spouse leave
• $20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
• Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

• $10k/year towards trade school or college
• Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills
• Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
• 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
• $10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

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. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

As part of a small, fast-paced, and passionate team you will be the key to rocket component production. You will be responsible for driving design feedback and communication between engineers and manufacturing. Input provided by you can determine the success or failure of individual components and assemblies.

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
• 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

• 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

Primary Level Salary Range:

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.