Senior Materials & Process Engineer – Coatings & Bonding

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vacation benefits

401(k) plan with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Sr. Materials & Process Engineer to provide technical leadership in material selection, qualification and process integration across the manufacturing site.

You will drive materials characterization innovation and support initiatives that improve performance metrics. The role requires deep experience in chemical processing, surface finishing, and bonding, plus hands-on capability with SEM/EDS/CT methods to characterize materials and diagnose defects.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Engineering, Materials Science or Chemistry with 5+ years of experience, or an Advanced Degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Direct experience with chemical processing operations (cleaning, pickling, passivation, chromate, anodizing)
• Direct experience with surface finishing processes (paint, coatings, sealants, masking, 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, chemical processing, and bonding; establish process parameters and controls.
• Troubleshoot adhesion, coating thickness, cure, contamination, and surface prep issues.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, operations and design engineering to investigate nonconformances and implement corrective actions.
• Develop, optimize, qualify and standardize processes to improve yield, quality, throughput and cost.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce scrap and process variation.
• Develop process specifications, work instructions, and manufacturing best practices.
• Support qualification of new materials, suppliers, 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 customer, regulatory and safety requirements.

Skills

Surface finishing

Chemical processing

Adhesive bonding

Process qualification

Root-cause analysis

Education

Engineering degree

Materials Science or Chemistry

Tools

SEM

EDS

CT scan

Fatigue testing

Corrosion analysis

Job description

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Sr. Materials & Process Engineer to provide technical leadership in material selection, qualification and process integration across the manufacturing site.

You will drive materials characterization innovation and support initiatives that improve performance metrics. The role requires deep experience in chemical processing, surface finishing, and bonding, plus hands-on capability with SEM/EDS/CT methods to characterize materials and diagnose defects.