Manufacturing Engineer

Free Form Fibers is committed to using its laser-driven chemical vapor deposition technology to bring new and unique fiber materials and related products to the advanced materials industry. Free Form Fibers was founded as a result of the development of a unique process based on chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to create inorganic High-Performance Fibers (HPFs) and high purity powders for use in a variety of challenging applications.

These applications appear in military and aerospace (turbo machinery, rockets, advanced structures), automobile, biomedical, energy and other industries that require advanced materials with exceptional strength, stiffness, heat resistance and/or chemical resistance. FFF provides these high-value raw materials to OEMs and composites fabricators.

Reporting to the Manager of Production, the Controls Engineer will perform a hands-on Controls Engineering role in support of the production lifecycle of in-house-designed, specialized, production-scale equipment used in Free Form Fibers’ laser chemical vapor deposition process. Responsibilities will include supporting equipment assembly, set-up, validation, operation, changeover, maintenance, and repair, with a focus on production controls and associated low-voltage hardware, sensors, motion-control systems, and process equipment.

The Controls Engineer will help maximize production uptime and effective production flow, and will provide first response to "stop the line" scenarios that may be controls-related, as well as planned and reactive maintenance.

Success in this role requires a desire to work in the high-technology space as part of a small team of experts in the field of chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

• Apply your history of Controls Engineering in a Production environments, combined with mentorship from the Free Form Fibers team, to quickly build competence in the Free Form Fiber’s laser chemical vapor deposition process equipment controls
• Represent the Controls Engineering function on cross-functional program teams aimed at bringing new products and associated production equipment to bear
• Partner in the Manufacturing Engineering lifecycle (validation - production - planned & reactive maintenance - continuous improvement) of in-house designed, specialized, laser driven chemical vapor deposition production controls used in the creation of inorganic High-Performance Fibers (HPFs) and high purity powders
• Partner in the first response to "stop the line" scenarios thought to be Controls related
• Represent Controls Engineering in both hasty 1-man and team structured problem solving
• Be the production champion for all Controls Engineering scope of responsibility during assembly, integration, testing and disassembly of both pressurized gas and vacuum process equipment
• Be the production champion for all Controls Engineering scope of responsibility during the installation, troubleshooting and/or replacement of vacuum pumps, valves, mass flow controllers, heaters, gas cylinders and pressure regulators
• Champion the maintenance, problem solving and continued operation and/or replacement of low voltage hardware (sensors, flow controls, data acquisition hardware)
• Champion the installation, troubleshooting and/or replacement of motion control systems (sensors, motors, motor controllers and associated wiring)
• Partner in the installation, validation and launch of all new, and revised, production equipment to meet emerging needs and