Senior Materials & Process Engineer — Aerospace Coatings

RTX; Wilson (NC); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

3 weeks vacation

401(k) plan with employer matching

Job summary

Collins Aerospace seeks a Sr. Materials & Process Engineer to lead material selection, qualification and process integration at the Wilson, NC site amid a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

This role focuses on driving innovations in materials characterization and analysis to improve key performance metrics. You will partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Operations and Design Engineering to investigate nonconformances, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Engineering, Materials Science or Chemistry and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
• Direct experience with chemical processing operations, such as cleaning, pickling, passivation, chromate, anodizing, or related chemical surface treatments
• Direct experience with surfacing finishing processes such as paint, coatings, sealants, masking, surface preparation or curing.
• Direct experience with chemical processing, adhesive bonding, or sealant processes.
• Direct experience with material characterization methods such as SEM, EDS, CT scan, fatigue testing or corrosion analysis.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for surface finishing (paint, coatings, sealants), chemical processing (cleaning, pickling, passivation, chromate, etc), and bonding processes, including surface preparation, masking, application, curing, and sealing; establish and maintain critical process parameters, controls, acceptance criteria, and monitoring methods.
• Support troubleshooting of issues involving adhesion, coating thickness, cure, contamination, surface preparation, bond strength, defects, appearance, and environmental conditions.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, Operations and Design Engineering to investigate nonconformances, escapes, and process variation, performing root-cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
• Develop, optimize, qualify, and standardize processes to improve yield, quality, throughput, material utilization, and cost.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce scrap, rework, and process variation.
• Develop and maintain process specifications, work instructions, process controls, and manufacturing best practices.
• Support qualification of new materials, suppliers, application methods, equipment, and processes.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for process-related defects and nonconformances.
• Support new product introduction, process validation, PFMEA, control plans, and production readiness.
• Ensure processes comply with applicable customer, regulatory, environmental, safety, and industry requirements.

Skills

Surface finishing

Chemical processing

Adhesive bonding

Material characterization

Education

Engineering/Materials/Chemistry degree

Advanced degree in related field

Job description

Collins Aerospace seeks a Sr. Materials & Process Engineer to lead material selection, qualification and process integration at the Wilson, NC site amid a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

This role focuses on driving innovations in materials characterization and analysis to improve key performance metrics. You will partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Operations and Design Engineering to investigate nonconformances, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective