Lead Manufacturing Engineer (Composites)

Location: Onsite in Gulfport, Mississippi, United States. Full-time 4/10 schedule with three-day weekends. United States citizenship is required, and the candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a US DoD Security Clearance.

Company

hirify.global is presenting a direct/FTE manufacturing engineering opportunity with a client producing fiberglass-related products for customer delivery.

What you will do

• Take end-to-end responsibility for building and expanding fiberglass-related products.
• Work with the design team after design completion to confirm that designs can be executed in production.
• Execute designs with support from production manufacturing engineers on the factory floor.
• Own product development, tooling development, and manufacturing support across several products simultaneously.
• Ensure production follows initial specifications and customer shipments are complete.
• Interface regularly with customers and subcontractors and prepare manufacturing documentation and reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Composites, Mechanical, Civil, Structural, Chemical, Aerospace, Naval Architecture, or a related engineering discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience in a production or manufacturing environment, including the last 4 years as a Production Lead.
• End-to-end manufacturing responsibility, product development ownership, tooling development, and supervision of manufacturing support for multiple products.
• Required experience with SolidWorks for modeling and drawing development.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong written and verbal customer service skills, with the ability to independently author work instructions, inspection procedures, white papers, and monthly reports.

Nice to have

• Experience manufacturing fiberglass or related products such as aramid fiber or basalt fiber.
• Subject matter expertise in several areas of the production process.
• Experience producing proposals, schedules, budgets, and other programmatic deliverables.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct full-time employment with the client.
• Career growth and long-term stability.
• Generous benefits package.
• Four-day, ten-hour work schedule with three-day weekends.