Senior Cure Process Engineer - Aerospace Composites
April Quest
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Job summary
April Quest is seeking a senior Cure Process Engineer to join our Seattle site, focusing on cure, consolidation, and forming of advanced composites. You will own process definitions and drive improvements across manufacturing, working closely with design and engineering teams to industrialize new capabilities.
The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, technical autonomy, and the delivery of robust, scalable curing and forming solutions for high-performance aerospace components.
Qualifications
- 7+ years’ experience in composite curing, consolidation and forming, ideally aerospace.
- Strong knowledge of thermoset and/or thermoplastic composites.
- Experience with cure/ forming processes such as oven cure, crushed core, bladder molding, compression molding, SMC, stamp forming.
- Experience as a manufacturing SME or owning composite processes.
- Knowledge of PFMEA/DFMEA and manufacturing risk management.
Responsibilities
- Own and standardize cure, consolidation and forming processes site-wide.
- Drive process optimisation, root cause analysis and problem solving.
- Develop and maintain process specifications, work instructions and technical documentation.
- Lead the introduction of new tooling, equipment, materials and manufacturing technologies.
- Support PFMEA/DFMEA and continuous improvement activities.
- Collaborate with design and engineering on DFM and industrialization.
- Help transition manual manufacturing processes toward greater automation.
- Act as the technical authority for cure and forming processes across the facility.
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Job description
April Quest is seeking a senior Cure Process Engineer to join our Seattle site, focusing on cure, consolidation, and forming of advanced composites. You will own process definitions and drive improvements across manufacturing, working closely with design and engineering teams to industrialize new capabilities.
The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, technical autonomy, and the delivery of robust, scalable curing and forming solutions for high-performance aerospace components.
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