Solution Architect (Additive Manufacturing Engineering)

Position Overview

The Solution Architect will innovate the design and development of customer concepts to create the highest quality Additively Manufactured parts for aerospace production. Collaborating with the engineering, production, and other functional teams, this role will devise solutions and strategies to optimize and hone additive manufacturing techniques. The Solution Architect will interface with customers to ensure that parts meet and exceed expectations, therefore customer engagement is a critical component of the role.

This role reports to the Director of Engineering Services.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for considering and anticipating the end-to-end additive manufacturing process in the design and engineering of additive hardware


• Responsible for collaborating across teams to ensure the on-time delivery of parts which meet and even exceed customer and industry requirements


• Responsible for engaging customers in a consistent, professional manner which encourages collaboration and long-standing customer relationships


• Responsible for acquiring and applying methods and techniques for design and build optimization on additive parts

Job Duties

• Engage with customers to explore and understand their needs for additive manufacturing production solutions


• Nurture relationships with high-potential accounts to facilitate and prioritize customer development opportunities


• Support methods to improve, optimize, and increase reliability of existing industrial equipment for additive manufacturing


• Leverage, facilitate, and organize cross-departmental teams for development of new applications, processes, testing, or other related project initiatives


• Maintain an understanding of client business challenges; demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge to position and map capabilities that align to client business objectives and initiatives

Skills

• Expert operational know-how of a variety of aerospace related additive manufacturing systems, supporting equipment, and hardware


• General understanding of materials science as related to additive manufacturing (thermal-mechanical influences, materials behaviors, microstructural tendencies, chemical compositional requirements, laser-powder interactions)


• Experience working with Siemens NX or other major CAD platforms


• Clear communication of technical issues related to manufacturing and engineering design


• Excellent and direct communication - both written and verbal – with customers, suppliers, and management

Education / General Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (Mechanical, Aerospace, or Manufacturing Engineering)


• 5-10 years of experience in a manufacturing environment (Aerospace AM preferred)


• REQUIRED: To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations applicants must be a US Person (US Citizen or Permanent Resident Card Holder) per ITAR regulations defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)

Work Environment and Safety Requirements

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounter while performing the essential functions of the job.

• Ability to wear personal protective gear correctly for up to two hours, including gloves, hearing protection, eye protection, protective footwear, and respirators in the manufacturing facility and while working with powders and AM machinery


• Ability to learn technical material relating to additive manufacturing


• Ability to remain in a stationary position for up to two hours, i.e. sitting


• Ability to inspect, twist, place, and position parts  


• Ability to communicate with teammates and internal stakeholders with daily updates, hazard concerns, questions, and issues


• Ability to detect non-conformances, inspect additively manufactured parts, and assess post-processing for flaws