Parttime Engineer

Benefits:

• Bonus based on performance
• Company parties

Job Title:

Part-Time Engineer (Retired / Experienced Professionals Welcome)

Location:

Idaho Falls, Idaho

Company:
Advanced Ceramic Fibers, LLC

Employment Type:

Part-Time (Flexible, ~15–30 hours/week or project-based)

Compensation:
Competitive hourly rate, DOE

About Us:

At Advanced Ceramic Fibers, LLC (ACF), we are an award-winning advanced materials company creating revolutionary high-performance ceramic fibers and composites for extreme environments. Through our patented Direct Conversion Process

TM (DCP), we transform regular carbon fiber into Fi-Bar™, a metal carbide/carbon core fiber material with capabilities beyond anything currently available. Our innovations support critical applications in space, defense, energy, consumer electronics and beyond. We are looking for a proven leader to join our team, to drive materials manufacturing excellence, and help push the boundaries of what’s possible.

The Opportunity:

If you've retired from a glorious career in engineering or manufacturing and still love getting your hands dirty, fixing what breaks, jerry-rigging clever solutions, building fixtures on the fly, and making things work better, this could be perfect. Bring your decades of real-world experience to a small, agile company working on cutting‑edge advanced materials. The work is practical, hands‑on, and directly helpful, no long meetings, just meaningful contributions on a schedule that fits your life.

• Troubleshoot manufacturing process issues, equipment failures, and production bottlenecks with quick, effective fixes.
• Jump in to repair, modify, or build whatever the team needs to keep things running smoothly.
• Share battle-tested insights to reduce defects, improve quality, and increase consistency.
• Help put in place and keep running the necessary systems to capture and analyze key production and manufacturing data to spot trends and make smarter decisions.
• Collaborate directly with our small team in an open, no-nonsense environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• 40+ years of hands-on engineering and professional experience in manufacturing, process improvement, maintenance, or related fields.
• Outstanding with your hands, you can fix just about anything that breaks, jerry-rig solutions when parts aren't available, and build or modify equipment on the spot.
• Deep practical know-how from years of making things work in real production or shop environments.
• A natural troubleshooter who thrives on diagnosing problems fast and getting creative to solve them.
• Comfortable jumping in to help the manufacturing team with your incredible wealth of experience and ability to build, repair, and improvise.

Must be a U.S. person (naturalized citizen or qualifying under ITAR/EAR definitions) and eligible to participate in federally funded programs involving Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

Successful completion of background check and drug testing required prior to employment.

Join a small, growing team at the cutting edge of materials innovation. Idaho Falls is a dream for outdoor lovers, only ~1.5 hours from Yellowstone, Sun Valley, and Jackson Hole, with world‑class skiing, hiking, fishing, boating, kayaking, hunting, and the largest wilderness area in the lower 48, plus Salt Lake City is just 3 hours away.