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Salary: USD 178,000 - 210,000 / annual
Re:Build Manufacturing is an advanced, end-to-end manufacturing platform that partners with industrial companies and innovators to take products from concept to full-scale production in aerospace and defense, electrification, medical, energy, and robotics. The company is revitalizing America's manufacturing base and creating meaningful jobs across the country.
You will serve as a Resident Engineer embedded at strategic aerospace and defense customer locations, functioning as a trusted technical advisor and extension of the customer's engineering team. This role blends deep technical engagement with commercial visibility, requiring someone with 15+ years of aerospace, defense, or precision manufacturing experience who is equally comfortable in design reviews and commercial conversations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as on-site technical advisor at customer locations, with schedule driven by program cadence
- Deliver real-time Design for Manufacturability (DFM) feedback in customer design reviews, NPI readiness meetings, and program planning sessions across structures, mechanisms, electronics packaging, and assemblies
- Spot design risks early and propose alternatives that preserve form, fit, and function while improving producibility, yield, or cost
- Build deep relationships with customer engineering, program management, and supply chain partners
- Identify and route emerging work opportunities to internal teams, coordinating with the Strategic Account Manager on commercial strategy
- Maintain a live opportunity funnel, tracking scope, value, timeline, and probability
- Support internal aerospace engineering with CAD development, DFM reviews, process development, and documentation when customer workload permits
You will be self-directed and low-maintenance, comfortable building trust with customer teams while protecting your company's commercial interests. Your value lies in technical credibility and the relationships and opportunities you bring back to the organization.
REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, or related engineering discipline
- 15+ years of engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or precision manufacturing
- Demonstrated DFM expertise in machined structures, sheet metal, composites, or electromechanical assemblies
- Familiarity with AS9100, ITAR, and A&D program management environments
- Ability to read and redline engineering drawings, GD&T, and model-based definitions
- Strong interpersonal skills, comfortable as a daily presence in a customer facility
- U.S. person status required (ITAR compliance)
Preferred:
- Customer-facing technical, application, or field engineering experience
- Exposure to NPI and production readiness within a Tier 1/2 A&D supply chain
- Working knowledge of CNC machining, additive manufacturing, or advanced joining processes
- Active security clearance or clearance eligibility
- Experience with PLM/PDM systems (e.g., Windchill, Teamcenter, ENOVIA)
- Track record of developing new business from within an existing account
