Composites Technician

Composites Technician

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

The Bike Shop, part of the Hardware Engineering directorate, serves as a rapid-prototyping and product-development hub supporting engineering teams across the organization. Our mission is to provide fast, high-quality prototypes, early-stage demonstration hardware, and hands-on development support that accelerates engineering solutions throughout the product lifecycle. We offer a broad range of in-house capabilities including mechanical and electrical fabrication, engineering and test support, and procurement coordination, enabling teams to quickly move from concept to demonstrated intent.

We are seeking a highly skilled Composites Technician to join our prototyping operations and support the growing demand for advanced composite structures. This role plays a key part in planning, fabricating, and delivering composite components that meet stringent engineering requirements. Working closely with the composites team, the technician will perform hands-on fabricationranging from layups and mold making to trimming, bonding, finishing, and integrationwhile ensuring projects meet quality, schedule, and performance goals. This is a dynamic, highly collaborative environment where each day brings new challenges, miscellaneous fabrication tasks, and the opportunity to contribute directly to innovative engineering solutions.

What You Will Do

• Read and interpret engineering drawings, models, and specifications. Understand tolerances, ply schedules, fiber orientations, and surface-finish requirements to ensure parts meet design intent.
• Estimate fabrication tasks (labor hours, material costs, lead times) in a timely manner while identifying manufacturability issues and tooling required. You will use your skills to communicate and negotiate technical requirements.
• Initiate quoting and ordering of raw materials, hardware, and machine tools for each project.
• Perform hands on fabrication in composites shop, including but not limited to mold making, vacuum forming, woodworking, silicones, part marking/stencil making, carbon fiber layups, fiberglass work, etc.
• Perform trimming, sanding, bonding, installing inserts like Helicoils, Keenserts and assembly operations.
• Carry out wet layup, prepreg layup, bagging, curing, demolding, part trimming, drilling, bonding using adhesives/films, paint/stenciling and final part finishing.
• Perform mechanical/electro-mechanical integration.
• Responsible for doing final inspection of the composite parts and also final close out of projects.
• All around hands on mechanical fabrication, this is a very fluid role that could require different mechanical skills every day.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires an AA/AS degree, (or another 2-year post high school training) and a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in a manufacturing or composites shop environment.
• Experience with composites and woodworking.
• Experience with adhesives and silicones.
• Experience with reading fabrication drawings.

Qualifications We Value:

• Highly organized, efficient and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills and the ability to work cohesively in a multi-disciplined teaming environment.
• Experience using 3D CAD programs
• Knowledge of materials, machining processes, plating, hardware, inserts, etc.
• Experience working with small engines

What We Offer

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

The salary range for this role is 60,000 USD - 114,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company's performance. This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply. RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.