Composites Machining Manufacturing Engineer II

Job Title: Composites Machining Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Bertram, TX

Employment Type: Direct Hire

Compensation: $95K - 114K/year.

Schedule: 40 hours/week

• We are seeking a highly motivated and dedicated Composite Machining Manufacturing Engineer to join our Structures Department.
• As part of a small, fast-paced, and passionate team, you will be instrumental in developing and scaling the manufacturing processes needed to produce advanced composite aerospace structures.
• You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving machining processes for carbon fiber composite components, including CNC routing, trimming, drilling, profiling, and other secondary machining operations.
• You will own machining processes from initial development through full-rate production, develop tooling and work holding solutions, support CNC and robotic machining programming, and provide technical expertise to ensure parts meet demanding quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
• This role will support a manufacturing environment utilizing Mastercam for CNC programming, Mastercam and Robot master for robotic machining programming, and KUKA industrial robotic machining cells, in addition to conventional multi-axis CNC equipment.

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

• Lead the development and implementation of machining processes for aerospace composite components, including trimming, routing, drilling, milling, profiling, countersinking, and other secondary machining operations.
• Develop and optimize machining strategies for carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), sandwich structures, honeycomb core, foam core, bonded assemblies, and other composite configurations.
• Develop CNC manufacturing processes including cutter selection, feeds and speeds, toolpath strategy, work holding, datum strategy, probing, inspection, and process controls.
• Develop, review, simulate, prove out, and optimize CNC machining programs using Mastercam for multi-axis CNC equipment.
• Develop and optimize robotic machining processes including toolpath strategy, robot positioning, reach and accessibility, collision avoidance, spindle orientation, cutting parameters, approach/retract motions, and off-part movement.
• Support production operation and continuous improvement of KUKA robotic machining cells, including program prove-out, fixture setup, coordinate system establishment, tooling, machining parameters, dimensional verification, and troubleshooting.
• Develop machining strategies that account for the unique characteristics of robotic machining including robot stiffness, positional accuracy, repeatability, dynamic loading, tool orientation, reach limitations, singularities, and process-induced deflection.
• Develop robust part locating, fixturing, datum, and work holding strategies that maintain dimensional accuracy while preventing damage, distortion, or excessive loading of composite hardware.
• Optimize cutter selection, cutting parameters, and toolpath strategies to minimize delamination, fiber breakout, splintering, heat damage, surface damage,…