Engineer III

Summary:

This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedication and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling companies vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

Responsibilities:

This position supports production and manufacturing groups across the company by crafting automated production machinery and establishing standards, processes, and guides for the design of control systems for spaceflight vehicle manufacturing and production.

You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of controls conceptualization, design, configuration, verification, installation, testing, and support.

Through conversations with internal customers and external vendors, you will develop controls processes and standards while supporting tooling control projects from inception through commissioning as well as supporting the machinery on the production floor by troubleshooting problems in real time.

This position specializes in tooling through design, specifications and post commission support.

Additionally, you will support requests from development labs for specialty equipment and other emergent needs by providing rapid turnaround of well-designed and cost-efficient systems.

Critical production support is the mainstay of this position where you will be the first responder to controls related stop production issues and will be the focal solution provider in these instances.

Qualifications:

Strong abilities in all phases of control and automation production machinery from cradle to grave including design, process definition and simplification, deployment, qualification, troubleshooting code as well as electro-mechanical systems.

Proficiency with design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and maintenance of automated equipment/machinery used for processing aerospace vehicle and component production or ground support equipment.

Experience in building, maintaining, and installing assembly machinery, machine tool, production automation, test automation machinery, robotic work cells, fabrication machinery, automated guided vehicles, etc. This is a machine and tooling position, responsible for ensuring production automation machinery functions as needed.

Operational knowledge of automated industrial machinery which include motors, servos, drives, pumps, relays, PLC, HMI, safety devices, 3 phase power, communication devices and all phases of industrial electrical controls.

Ability to set up both A/C and D/C drives as well as possessing the ability to troubleshoot PLC code. Must be able to create/generate machine control logic (PLC programming experience) using Siemens TIA portal and/or Rockwell.

Experience developing and validating specifications for the contracting of production machinery that is used in the manufacturing of aerospace vehicles.

Experience leading contractors during the design, assembly, and installation phases of the tooling and equipment design process.

Proficient with Controls and Automation Hardware/Software (ex. Siemens TIA Portal, Rockwell, Beckhoff, PLC programming/debug, six-axis mechanical robot programming (Fanuc, KUKA)

Ability to interpret and review electrical and mechanical drawings.

A demeanor of outstanding quality, attention to detail, and dedication

Ability to communicate successfully, clearly, and with modesty to collaborators and customers.

B.S. degree (or higher) required in Mechatronics, Electrical, Controls, Automation, or other relevant engineering field.

5+ years' experience designing, integrating tooling or equipment used in the manufacture, assembly, and test of aerospace hardware.

Desired:

Familiar with various control systems standards such as IEC 61131, ANSI B11, NFPA 79, and RIA 15.06

Experience with writing and developing software in a high-level language such as Python, C , etc

Excellent technical writing, grammar, and presentation experience

Experience with electrical verification of machines

Experience with process automation equipment & tooling

Compensation:

The pay rate range above is the base hourly pay range that Aditi Consulting reasonably expects to pay someone for this position (compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including but not limited to, a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, location and end client requirements).

Benefits and Ancillaries:

Medical, dental, vision, PTO benefits and ancillaries may be available for eligible Aditi Consulting employees and vary based on the plan options selected by the employee.