Environmental & Thermal Control Engineer (Dragon) Verified today
Environmental & Thermal Control Engineer (Dragon)
You will own piece parts and assembled propulsion and environmental and thermal subsystems throughout Dragon manufacturing. Your focus is delivery on schedule while maintaining safety and part quality.
What you'll do
- Own piece parts and assembled propulsion and environmental and thermal subsystems throughout the manufacturing process with 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 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 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 processes
- Knowledge of chemistry, engineering, fluid dynamics, and mechanics of materials
- Experience conducting pressure and leak testing using 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 performing PFMEAs
- Familiarity with CAD and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
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
Compensation and benefits
Pay Range: Level 1: $100,000 to $130,000. Level 2: $115,000 to $160,000. Base salary determined case-by-case based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Additional benefits include long-term incentives in company stock or cash awards, discretionary bonuses, employee stock purchase plan, comprehensive medical/vision/dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks paid vacation, 10+ paid holidays annually, and paid sick leave.
ITAR requirement
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.