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Varstaff is searching for an Engineer - Manufacturing Tooling II/III (Req 37722243) to support a private rocket program (New Glenn production) at Rocket Park in Cape Canaveral, FL.
About the Role
This is a six-month assignment (15 openings). You will design and deliver the tooling that builds and moves launch vehicle hardware, managing tooling projects from concept through commissioning.
Responsibilities
Prescreen Questions
About the Role
This is a six-month assignment (15 openings). You will design and deliver the tooling that builds and moves launch vehicle hardware, managing tooling projects from concept through commissioning.
Responsibilities
- Design simple tooling for the New Glenn program: assembly fixtures, material-handling equipment, rotisseries, test fixtures, structural weldments, environmental chambers and custom machinery.
- Create CAD models and drawings per ASME Y14.5.
- Manage tooling projects end to end: concept, vendor selection, procurement, fabrication, inspection, installation, proof testing and commissioning.
- Perform root cause analysis on tooling and manufacturing issues.
- BS in engineering or equivalent experience.
- Experience in tooling design, fabrication and procurement.
- CAD experience, including Creo Parametric and Windchill.
- GD&T and basic hand calculations.
- 3+ years of direct manufacturing experience.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, green card holder, refugee or asylee.
- Degree in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial or aerospace engineering.
- Design for manufacture and assembly (DFM/DFA) and rate production experience.
- Tolerance stack-up analysis.
- CNC, welding, sheet metal and rigging knowledge.
- FEA experience with ANSYS.
Prescreen Questions
- Walk us through a specific tool that you personally designed and released.
- How did you define the requirements?
- What constraints did you have to deal with? (Fabrication capabilities, cost, schedule)
- Describe an engineering analysis you performed to validate a tooling design.
- What method of analysis did you use? (FEM, hand calcs)
- Define the load cases you checked.
- Walk us through how you verified that a tool you designed met its requirements.
- What were the key requirements, and where did they come from?
- Did you push back on or negotiate any of them?