Materials & Process Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Materials and Process Engineer

Our client designs and manufactures high-performance, custom thermal management solutions for terrestrial and aerospace applications. Operating an AS9100D/ISO9001 certified facility in Columbia, Missouri, our client develops advanced heat sinks and heat spreaders to meet demanding application requirements.

Our client values innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement and offers:

• Competitive pay based on experience.

• 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Additional benefits, including a 401(k), paid time off, and career development opportunities.

• A collaborative and innovative work environment where your contributions make a difference.

Our client is seeking a proactive Materials and Process Engineer to support the development, qualification, production, and continuous improvement of materials and manufacturing processes for aerospace components and assemblies. This role partners with mechanical engineering, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and operations to ensure materials and processes meet stringent aerospace performance, reliability, quality, and regulatory requirements.

The ideal candidate brings strong knowledge of aerospace materials and manufacturing processes, excellent problem-solving skills, and experience turning engineering requirements into reliable, repeatable production processes.

• Select, evaluate, and qualify materials for aerospace structures, components, and assemblies.

• Develop, validate, and improve manufacturing processes including machining, forming, heat treatment, welding, brazing, bonding, composites, coatings, and surface treatments.

• Establish and maintain material and process specifications, standards, work instructions, and process-control requirements.

• Support new product introduction (NPI), production ramp-up, and manufacturing readiness.

• Use structured root-cause analysis to investigate material and process defects, nonconformances, and production issues.

• Develop corrective and preventive actions and verify their effectiveness.

• Collaborate with mechanical engineering to evaluate material compatibility, manufacturability, durability, and performance.

• Support qualification and certification of new materials, suppliers, processes, and equipment.

• Analyze material and process data to identify trends, improve capability, and reduce scrap and rework.

• Participate in failure analysis, testing, metallurgical evaluation, and laboratory investigations.

• Support supplier development and audits, and help resolve supplier-related material and process issues.

• Prepare engineering reports, technical specifications, qualification documentation, and process documentation.

• Ensure compliance with applicable aerospace standards, customer requirements, and regulatory requirements.

• Support configuration management and engineering change activities related to materials and processes.

• Drive continuous improvement to reduce costs and cycle times, improve quality, and strengthen process reliability.

• Provide technical support to manufacturing personnel and troubleshoot complex production problems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, or a related field.

• Experience with composite materials and manufacturing processes.

• Knowledge of heat treatment, surface treatment, coatings, corrosion, fatigue, fracture, and material characterization.

• Experience with welding, brazing, soldering, adhesive bonding, or other joining processes.

• Familiarity with AS9100, FAA requirements, and aerospace material/process specifications.

• Experience with statistical process control (SPC), design of experiments (DOE), and process capability analysis.

• Familiarity with non-destructive testing (NDT) methods and metallographic analysis.

• Experience working with aerospace OEM, customer, or regulatory qualification requirements.