Sr. Aerospace Welding Engineer

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Your Impact:

• Preparing technical reports as result of research and development.
• Performing experimental welding to evaluate new equipment, techniques, and materials.
• Establishing welding procedures to guide production and welding personnel relating to specification restrictions, material processes, pre- and post-heating requirements which involve use of complex alloys, unusual fabrication methods, welding of critical joints, and complex post heating requirements.
• Directing and coordinating technical personnel in performing inspections to ensure workers' compliance with established welding procedures, restrictions, and standards.
• Helping other EM32 Welding & Manufacturing Team customers understand and resolve problems related to their welding manufacturing processes.
• Exchanging ideas, information, or offer technical advice concerning welding matters.
• Developing welding techniques, procedures, and applications of welding equipment to problems involving fabrication of metals, utilizing knowledge of production specifications, properties and characteristics of metals and metal alloys, and engineering principles.
• Evaluating new developments in welding field for possible application to current welding problems or production processes.
• Conducting research and development investigations to develop and test new fabrication processes and procedures, improve existing or develop new welding equipment, develop new or modify current welding methods, techniques, and procedures, discover new patterns of welding phenomena, or to correlate and substantiate hypotheses.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

Degree in Welding Engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Degree from an ABET-accredited university is preferred. Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a Ph.D., with a minimum 14 years of experience, Masters with at least 18 years of experience, or BS with at least 20 years of experience.

The selected candidate must have:

• Demonstrated experience working with welding equipment and tooling vendors.
• Demonstrated experience with aerospace fusion and friction plug welding, friction stir welding and manufacturing of flight hardware.

Experience manufacturing SLS hardware and experience working with NASA Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) manufacturing is highly desired.

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General office environment (40%), industrial welding / manufacturing development laboratory / machine shop (60%). Requires ability to interact effectively with co-workers, managers, and clients. Requires ability to provide clear, concise, and accurate communications, both verbally and in writing (50%). Travel will be necessary, up to 25%.

Physical Requirements:

Requires sitting for extended periods of time in meetings with peers, management, and with our client at NASA facilities to discuss technical issues (10%). Also, requires sitting for extended periods of time at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks (30%). Requires standing, sitting and walking in a lab environment with hazards that require wearing safety glasses, hard hat, hearing protection, foot protection, gloves and/or protective clothing to perform some operations (10%). Use of stairs or elevators to gain access to buildings will be required. Some work requires using stairs and/or ladders to access elevated work platforms. Positions can require lifting and/or maneuvering materials and/or equipment weighing up to 40 lbs.

Some work will be performed on-site at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and/or NASA MAF (25%). The remainder of work can be performed remotely. In cases where on-site work is required, transportation, food and lodging will be provided for the on-site work for personnel residing outside of normal commuting distance.

Requires ability to operate a personal computer, a telephone, fax machine, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).

Attendance:

Normal workday is from 7:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m., Monday thru Friday. Minimal overtime may be required (10%) to meet schedule milestones and to support technical demands of the job. Regular attendance is a necessity and adequate arrangements for delegating duties during absences are required.

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