Manufacturing Engineer III (Aerospace)

Location: 100% onsite in Inglewood, California, United States. Applicants must be U.S. persons under ITAR requirements and must meet U.S. employment eligibility requirements.

Salary: $100,000–$120,000 per year, based on experience, skills, and education.

Company

hirify.global is a Southern California defense contractor designing and manufacturing alternate mission equipment and related systems for military aerospace and vehicle programs.

What you will do

• Review customer engineering requirements and drawings for manufacturability and create manufacturing plans and bills of material.
• Troubleshoot assembly, machining, and production-process issues while supporting customer quality and cost objectives.
• Improve manufacturing efficiency, quality, consistency, accuracy, and cycle times through new processes, materials, equipment, and methods.
• Design and deploy tooling, fixtures, and jigs for assembly and production processes.
• Prepare engineering changes, analyses, reports, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with production personnel, supervisors, management, suppliers, and equipment vendors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 7+ years of manufacturing engineering experience.
• Experience with aerospace manufacturing, FSDA, machining and fabrication of complex metallic components, and electromechanical assemblies.
• Ability to interpret blueprints, engineering drawings, procedures, GD&T, MIL-STD documents, and ASME Y14.5.
• Knowledge of manufacturing techniques, NC machine programming, materials and metals processing, heat treatment, coatings, measurement, and inspection.
• Experience creating manufacturing plans, designing assembly tooling, and writing engineering reports with analyses and results.
• Fluent English reading and writing skills and U.S. person status under ITAR are required.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Digital Product Definition, Model-Based Definition, or Manufacturing Readiness Assessment.
• CAD experience with CATIA or Creo.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced work environment with opportunities to work independently and in cross-functional groups.
• Direct collaboration with assemblers, production supervisors, leads, management, suppliers, and external resources.
• Work supporting military aerospace programs and Department of Defense customers.
• Employment eligibility is verified through E-Verify.