Propulsion Engineer (Dragon)

PROPULSION ENGINEER (DRAGON)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own piece parts and assembled propulsion and/or environmental and thermal sub-systems throughout the manufacturing process with a focus on delivery to meet Dragon rate and USDV delivery timelines while maintaining safety and part quality
• Develop and qualify new processes to take products from design to production
• Resolve manufacturing discrepancies for all owned parts and processes by collaborating with the design engineering, production, and quality teams
• Support day-to-day production of assemblies, high-pressure testing, and integration of hardware
• Identify, plan, and execute capital equipment, machine, and layout upgrades to the meet volume production demand
• Find and eliminate process waste, streamline production processes, and enable continuous improvement

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
• 1+ years of hands-on experience driving the design, building, testing, manufacturing, or development of mechanical components or systems

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master's degree in aerospace, mechanical, systems, or manufacturing engineering
• Experience with design for manufacturability and assembly
• Experience with welding, machining, and coating process
• Knowledge of principles of chemistry, engineering, fluid dynamics, and mechanics of materials
• Experience conducting pressure and leak testing using instrumentation such as helium mass spectrometers, flow meters, pressure transducers, and thermocouples
• Experience with capacity modeling, process mapping, and fault analysis
• Experience performing pareto analysis, root cause and corrective action experience
• Experience performing PFMEAs
• Familiarity with CAD and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) experience

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Position may require extended work hours and weekend work
• Position requires working directly with hardware on the floor for extended periods of time

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

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