About Castelion
Castelion is bringing a new approach to defensedevelopment and production: one that focuses on short, iterative design cycles,rapid testing in development, and modern commercial manufacturing strategiesfor production at scale. We're designing, building, and testing next generationlong range strike weapons systems to give America and its Allies a definitiveedge and deter future conflicts.
Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Machining
Castelion is seeking an expert in the machining and design of complex mechanisms for our in-house hypersonic vehicle development. This role will work closely with design engineering and technician teams to build and execute on testing and validation efforts to keep pace with the research and development timetable of our products. You will be apart of a team responsible for serving as a critical node in implementing feedback from testing and validation efforts, streamlining designs and implementing manufacturing changes to quickly mature our products for flight testing and production. Desire for product and process ownership is a must in this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with component design engineering teams to determine the manufacturing and testing feasibility of product
- Operate as astandalone resource responsible for a family of mechanisms
- Architect,mature and develop testing and validation procedures for a wide array ofcomplex mechanisms
- Generateconcept proposals in alignment with R&D efforts to help attributerequirements gathering
- Down selectsolutions generated based on quantifiable vehicle attributes, system cost andweight
- Propose anddefend solutions in engineering review meetings
- Develop andrefine process documentation including build instructions, test and validationprocedures, health and safety standards, and mBOMs
- Create,maintain, and communicate detailed production plans and schedules
- Work closelywith supply chain to develop new and existing suppliers as needed
- Design,develop and implement production tooling and equipment
- Participate indesign reviews to drive design for manufacturing (DFM)
- Overseeintroduction and implementation of new products and manufacturing capabilities
- Analyze andresolve manufacturing issues and non-conformances
- Develop,mentor, and train peers and colleagues
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelorsdegree in mechanical, aerospace, or manufacturing engineering, or othertechnical degree.
- 5+years of mechanisms manufacturing, testing and validation experience
- Experiencewith operations/product line management
- Demonstrateddirect or indirect leadership
- Proficiencyin CAD/CAM software (NX preferred)
- Experiencein selection, procurement, and implementation/validation of manufacturingequipment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experiencein mechanisms design, testing and validation from high volume productionenvironments
- Experiencedeveloping comprehensive testing and validation procedures and the requireddocumentation processes
- Experiencein qualification and acceptance testing of complex aerospace mechanisms
- Workingexperience with capacity modeling, process mapping, Lean/Six Sigma and valuestream mapping
- Experiencein transitioning development processes to rate production
Leadership Qualities
- Bias to Action and Creative Problem Solving. Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented.Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains. Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support.
- HighCommitment, High Initiative. A successful candidate will have a genuine passion for Castelion's mission and consistently look for ways to contribute to the company's technical goals and prevent hardware blockers. Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere.Strong sense of accountability and integrity.
- ClearCommunicator. Proactively communicates blockers. Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers. Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships. Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity.
ITAR Requirements
- Toconform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S.citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green cardholder), (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.
Employment with Castelion is governed on the basis ofcompetence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race,color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disabilitystatus, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental orphysical disability or any other legally protected status.
All employees are granted long-term stock incentivesas part of their employment at Castelion. All employees receive access tocomprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance, and the company offersfour weeks of paid time off per year.