Manufacturing Engineer
Listed on 2025-10-08
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Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering, Mechanical Engineer, Process Engineer -
Manufacturing / Production
Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering
Overview
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Base pay range: $73.00/hr - $82.00/hr
Shift options: A - Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm; B - Monday-Thursday 3:30 pm – 2am; C - Friday - Sunday 5am – 5pm; D - Friday - Sunday 5pm – 5am
Location:
Merritt Island, FL (as referenced in related postings)
As part of a diverse and hardworking team of manufacturing engineers, we provide technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Our responsibilities include translating engineering intent, drawings, and configurations into fully functional hardware ready for test, qualification, and flight. Throughout the manufacturing process, we are responsible to improve quality, reduce cost, and to optimize build sequence.
Our team also creates, interprets, and modifies work instructions and routings to convey procedures to technicians and trigger material planning.
- Develop manufacturing work instructions to clearly define the following manufacturing processes: fabrication, assembly, test, integration, and refurbishment.
- Manage quality, build sequence, and schedule for hardware manufacturing process.
- Perform engineering drawing impact assessments, reviews and approvals for manufacturing.
- Design proper material handling and packaging solutions to protect hardware.
- Manage hardware configuration and steward build and test pedigree.
- Lead efforts to identify, develop, and deploy designs and methodologies that improve operational excellence through quality, cost, design, and process improvement.
- Support the manufacturing floor in assembly and installation, ensure compliance to engineering requirements, discrepancy resolution, and component acceptance testing.
- Perform hands-on engineering liaison between design, test, and operations teams and our manufacturing customers.
- Investigate root causes, disposition vehicle discrepancies, and take ownership of preventative and corrective actions.
- Drive design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) into design.
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Electrical, Chemical, or Aerospace Engineering
- 7 or more years direct manufacturing and manufacturing engineering experience
- Understanding of engineering fundamentals for mechanical design and manufacturing with solid understanding of GD&T
- Proficiency in CAD, PLM, Scheduling, MS Office, Windchill, and related software
- Ability to develop processes compliant to industry quality systems such as AS9100
- Attentive and responsive with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)
- Ability to work cooperatively with teams of diverse skills across large geographic distances
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to an inclusive culture
- Mid-Senior level
- Contract
- Manufacturing and Design
- Engineering Services and Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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