As a Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineer at Honeywell Aerospace, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for driving key manufacturing processes within aerospace component production. This role plays a critical part in ensuring product quality, performance, and operational efficiency, with a strong focus on advanced turbine engine coating technologies. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role with significant technical ownership and influence—providing leadership and guidance to engineering teams without direct people management responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead end-to-end advanced manufacturing processes, with focus on: Process development, parameters, and optimization, tooling design and qualification, maintenance and inspection criteria, and customer approvals and compliance
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance process stability, product quality, and operational efficiency
- Analyze production data and performance metrics to identify improvement opportunities and implement corrective actions
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and cross-functional teams
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, and quality teams to support production goals
- Ensure compliance with aerospace quality standards, safety regulations, and industry requirements
- Support integration and advancement of manufacturing technologies (e.g., automation, advanced processing methods)
Core technical focus:
- Aerospace special process manufacturing
- Thermal barrier coatings, including ceramic or aluminizing technologies
- Preferred specialization in EBPVD (Electron Beam Physical Vapor Deposition)
This role includes full technical ownership of coating processes, directly impacting product performance and customer requirements.
QualificationsYOU MUST HAVE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field or 8+ years of EBPVD Thermal Coating
- Proven experience in advanced manufacturing and process optimization within
- Strong expertise in thermal coating technologies (ceramic and aluminizing)
- Experience in data analysis and process control (e.g., statistical process control)
- Demonstrated ability to operate in a technical leadership capacity
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
WE VALUE:
- Direct hands-on experience with EBPVD coating processes
- Master’s degree in Engineering or related field
- Knowledge of advanced manufacturing technologies (automation, robotics)
- Strong project management and continuous improvement experience
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Employer-subsidized medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts
- Employee assistance program and educational assistance
- Parental leave and 12 paid holidays
- Paid time off for vacation, personal and sick time
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field, or 8+ years of EBPVD thermal coating experience
- Experience in advanced manufacturing and process optimization
- Expertise in ceramic and aluminizing thermal coating technologies
- Experience with data analysis and process control, such as statistical process control
- Ability to provide technical leadership
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
- Hands-on EBPVD coating process experience
- Master's degree in Engineering or a related field
- Knowledge of automation and robotics
- Project management and continuous improvement experience
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- U.S. person status under applicable export control regulations
The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan provides a company‑paid contribution of 8–12% based on years of service with immediate eligibility and vesting, and eligible employees can access retiree medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes 15 vacation days (rising to 20 after five years), nine paid holidays, and unlimited sick time for exempt employees with accruals for non‑exempt staff.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work models include a 9/80 schedule with alternating Fridays off, supported by backup care services, an EAP, relocation assistance, and home‑office stipends where applicable.
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What We Do
The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace works across the space enterprise in service of the public interest. In addition to supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, our customers include NASA, NOAA, numerous federal agencies, and commercial space — all of whom benefit from our deep technical knowledge. We only pursue business related to the space mission and complementary fields, operating as the nation’s trusted partner to solve the toughest challenges and develop reliable and innovative technologies. Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. At Aerospace, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.
Why Work With Us
We are a non-profit corporation chartered by the government to work on the hardest problems in space. We employ technical experts in every discipline of space-related science and engineering who touch every part of the US space program. Come join us as we make an impact bigger than ourselves.
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