Senior Manufacturing Engineer

REIOS Recruitment; Woburn (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

REIOS Recruitment is seeking a lead engineer to own the post-processing pipeline for metal additive manufacturing parts in an early-stage production-focused company. You will ensure parts meet specifications and propagate learnings to enable repeatable manufacturing.

Responsibilities include defining processing routes, designing fixtures, leading root-cause analyses, and writing SOPs and inspection plans. You will coordinate with vendors and our print team to drive DfAM improvements and part

Qualifications

• Hands-on metal additive manufacturing experience with ownership of post-processing routes, LPBF/DMLS/SLM preferred, binder jetting or DED acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Define the post processing route for new parts including removal, stress relief, heat treatment, wire EDM, CNC machining, blasting, surface finishing, CMM inspection.
• Design fixtures, work holding and datum features for machining near-net-shape AM parts.
• Lead RCCA/8D/FMEA when parts distort or drift out of tolerance.
• Feed DfAM changes back to print team to ease machining and inspection.
• Write SOPs, work instructions and inspection plans for operations.
• Support first article inspection, process validation and part qualification for aerospace, medical, automotive and industrial.
• Manage outside vendors for HIP, coatings and specialist finishing, and bring in new post-processing tech.

Skills

Post-processing ownership

Root cause analysis

Process definition from scratch

SOPs and work instructions writing

Vendors management

8D/FMEA

Tools

CMM inspection

Job description

A lead role owning everything that happens to metal additive manufacturing (3D printed) parts after the print, at an early stage company making production parts for customers.

You'd take over customer programs early in a small team. You take the printed part, decide how it gets to spec and write it up so operations can repeat it.

Responsibilities

• Defining the post processing route for new customer parts - support removal, stress relief, heat treatment, wire EDM cut off, CNC machining, blasting and surface finishing, CMM inspection
• Designing fixtures, work holding and datum features for machining near net shape AM parts
• Leading root cause analysis and corrective action (RCCA, 8D, FMEA) when parts distort, crack or drift out of tolerance
• Feeding DfAM changes back to the print team so parts are easier to machine and inspect
• Writing SOPs, work instructions and inspection plans that go to operations once a part is qualified
• Supporting first article inspection, process validation and part qualification for customers in aerospace, medical, automotive and industrial
• Managing outside vendors for HIP, coatings and specialist finishing, and bringing in new post processing technology

Requirements

• Hands on metal additive manufacturing experience where you've owned the post processing route yourself - laser powder bed fusion (LPBF, DMLS, SLM) ideally, binder jetting or DED fits too
• Working knowledge of how AM alloys behave through heat treatment and machining - titanium, nickel alloys like Inconel 718, stainless or aluminum
• Real examples of root cause analysis you've led
• Enough manufacturing engineering experience to define a process from scratch, usually 6+ years