Composite Manufacturing Engineer
- Erlanger
- |3 years of exp
- |Full Time
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About the job
Composites Manufacturing Engineer, On-Site
Location: Erlanger, KY
Full Time
About the role
Tata Technologies is hiring a Senior Aerospace Composites Manufacturing Engineer to provide hands-on support at the customer’s manufacturing site. You’ll work directly with production technicians, quality engineers, and design engineers to troubleshoot composite fabrication issues, improve process repeatability, and implement changes on the shop floor. This role is suited to an experienced engineer who has taken manufacturing issues from initial containment through root cause, corrective action, and verification in production.
What you’ll do
Provide day-to-day engineering support for aerospace composite fabrication and assembly. Troubleshoot defects and process variation in operations such as layup, bagging, cure, bonding, trimming, drilling, and assembly.
Develop and maintain manufacturing plans, shop-floor work instructions, tooling requirements, and in-process inspection checkpoints.
Investigate nonconformances with Production and Quality. Evaluate manufacturing evidence, root cause analysis, and verify the effectiveness of corrective actions.
Partner with Design, Quality, and Tooling to assess manufacturability and implement controlled changes to tooling, fixtures, and process parameters.
Plan and document production trials, support process qualification and first article inspections, and help transition new or revised processes into production.
Use scrap, rework, yield, and cycle-time data to prioritize improvements and measure results.
Required qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, materials, manufacturing engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
At least 3-5 years of manufacturing engineering experience, including direct shop-floor support for aerospace composite parts or assemblies.
Hands-on experience with composite fabrication processes such as prepreg layup, vacuum bagging, autoclave or oven cure, adhesive bonding, or composite machining and assembly.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, GD&T, material and process specifications, and inspection results.
Demonstrated experience writing production work instructions, investigating nonconformances, and implementing corrective actions.
Ability to work onsite and communicate technical decisions clearly with technicians, inspectors, and customer engineering teams.
Preferred qualifications
Experience with composite tooling, cure-cycle troubleshooting, bonded assembly, or coordinating nondestructive inspection.
Familiarity with AS9100 quality systems, AS9102 first article inspections, or Nadcap-accredited composites processes.
Experience with new product introduction, production ramp-up, FAI/EFPR processes.
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