Engineer I

Barnes Aerospace is seeking a Repair Engineer to join our Jet AirWerks team. Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining aircraft engine component repair processes, evaluating repair feasibility, and production floor support. This hands-on role supports shop floor troubleshooting, coordinates with major aerospace OEM customers, and ensures repairs meet all safety and quality requirements.

• →Under direction of the Engineering Manager, provide daily shop-floor support; gather facts, troubleshoot process, tooling, equipment, and inspection issues, and escalate risks appropriately.
• →Work with engineering manager to support repair-development work packages from opportunity assessment through production release, including scope, schedule, risk, resource, and technical deliverables.
• →Evaluate part condition, damage modes, repairability, dimensional restoration needs, and potential life or performance risks; define repair concept options and recommend the technically and commercially appropriate path.
• →Develop and validate repair sequences that may include cleaning/stripping, inspection, blending, machining, joining, coating, heat treatment, non-destructive testing, dimensional restoration, and final inspection
• →Maintain repair routings, work instructions, standard work, fixtures, and controlled documentation; use basic data and structured methods such as 5 Why, 8D, and PFMEA to support root-cause and corrective-action work.
• →Partner with Operations and Quality on process trials, operator training, readiness reviews, repair transfers, and improvement projects that improve safety, quality, yield, turnaround time, and capacity.