Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Propulsion & Energetics

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own solid rocket motor integration processes: receipt and inspection of qualified motors from Anduril RMS, handling and lift operations, mating to the vehicle, alignment, and torque and close-out.
• Own divert and attitude control system and thruster installation processes — mounting, alignment, plumbing and leak verification — for both development and vendor-supplied units.
• Own pressurant and fluid system build and installation: tanks, lines, fittings, valves, proof and leak testing, and cleanliness control for propulsion-grade fluid systems.
• Own ordnance installation processes — initiators, pyrotechnic separation systems and flight termination system installation — including safe-and-arm handling, electrical safing, stray voltage and RF hazard controls,…
• Partner with Anduril's Explosive Engineering & Operations team on hazard classification and own the manufacturing safety controls that follow — siting, storage and licensing compliance, and the hazardous operating…
• Author and maintain work instructions, travelers and as-built records for the propulsion and ordnance operations you own, and own root cause analysis, PFMEA, process validation and first article inspection for those…
• Drive Design for Manufacturability and Assembly into propulsion and ordnance designs before CDR — access, handling provisions, safing points, line and connector routing, and installation order.
• Specify and qualify handling equipment, lift fixtures and installation tooling for propulsion hardware, working with the Automation and Tooling engineer who designs it.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Chemical, Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of manufacturing or integration engineering experience in aerospace, space, defense or another high-reliability industry, including 4+ years hands-on work on propulsion, ordnance or other energetic hardware.
• Has worked under a formal explosives or energetics safety program and can describe the controls in practice — quantity-distance and magazine siting under DESR 6055.09 or ATF 27 CFR, two-person discipline, electrical…
• Hands-on experience in at least two of: solid rocket motor handling and integration; liquid or cold-gas thruster installation; pressurant and fluid system build with proof and leak testing;
• Has authored or approved procedures for hazardous operations on flight or comparably high-consequence hardware, and can walk through how a procedure changed after first execution.
• Experience specifying handling and lift equipment for heavy or hazardous articles, including load path and proof load requirements.
• Experience serving as the manufacturing technical interface to a propulsion supplier or an internal motor or thruster producer — deliverability, producibility and acceptance.
• Demonstrated expertise in root cause analysis (8D, 5-Why, Fishbone), PFMEA, corrective and preventive action, and first article inspection, applied to hazardous processes.