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About the Role
Canada Rocket Company is building a sovereign launch capability for Canada. This role leads the selection, qualification, control, and industrialization of materials and fabrication processes for flight-ready hardware, spanning material systems, process definition, producibility, inspection, and failure investigation.
Responsibilities
- Work with structural and mechanical engineers to define and execute the material and manufacturing engineering approach for launch vehicle hardware.
- Select, qualify, and control material systems for vehicle applications.
- Develop and maintain material specifications, process specifications, qualification plans, and workflows.
- Characterize and evaluate material behaviour relevant to design and manufacturing.
- Define, develop, optimize, and control fabrication processes for hardware.
- Develop manufacturing plans, traveler documents, work instructions, build sequences, and process flows.
- Drive design-for-manufacture and design-for-assembly reviews with engineering teams.
- Partner closely with design, structures, propulsion, fluids, and integration teams to ensure metallic hardware concepts are aligned with process capability, source availability, and production constraints.
- Support development and maturation of key manufacturing methods.
- Work with operations and supply chain teams to identify, qualify, and mature suppliers for critical raw materials, forgings, and fabricated components.
- Support sourcing decisions with an understanding of material pedigree, domestic or allied source considerations, lead times, certifiability, traceability, and long-term scalability.
- Lead or support failure analysis and manufacturing investigations.
- Resolve shop-floor and production issues including non-conformances, rework paths, process escapes, yield issues, and fabrication anomalies.
- Maintain material databases, process records, and traceability systems.
- Contribute to technical reviews, trade studies, and development planning related to materials, manufacturing methods, production scaling, and hardware risk reduction.
Requirements
- Experience in manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, or process engineering for metallic aerospace hardware or similarly demanding hardware environments.
- Strong understanding of metallic material systems, including how alloy choice, product form, temper or heat treatment condition, and processing history affect performance, manufacturability, durability, and cost.
- Experience developing, utilizing, supporting, or optimizing fabrication processes for hardware (machining, welding, forming, joining, heat treatment, or assembly).
- Strong understanding of the interaction between materials and manufacturing methods, especially where fabrication route directly affects strength, fatigue performance, distortion, residual stress, crack initiation, dimensional control, or inspectability.
- Experience creating or managing manufacturing documentation, process flows, work instructions, build plans, or fabrication sequences.
- Strong engineering fundamentals related to material behaviour, manufacturing process capability, producibility, and practical hardware realization.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with design engineering, production, operations, suppliers, and adjacent technical teams in a fast-paced hardware environment.
- Strong communication and technical judgment, with the ability to make sound decisions that balance performance, manufacturability, schedule, scalability, and cost.
- Direct experience with launch vehicle, spacecraft, propulsion, pressure vessel, tank, thrust structure, manifold, or other high-performance aerospace hardware.
- Hands-on experience with aluminum alloy structures, welded assemblies, machined components, formed shells, machined manifolds, pressure-containing hardware, or thermally demanding metallic components.
- Experience with welding process development or qualification, including fusion welding, friction stir welding, brazing, or other relevant aerospace joining methods.
- Experience with both additive manufacturing processes and traditional machining and joining methods.
- Experience with source qualification and supplier development for metallic raw material and fabrication processes.
- Familiarity with NDT/NDE methods relevant to metallic and composite hardware.
- Familiarity with AS9100, NASA, ECSS, or similar aerospace process and manufacturing environments.
Skills
- Materials Science
- Engineering
- Production
- Quality
- Supply Chain
- Material Systems
- Process Definition
- Producibility
- Inspection
- Failure Investigation
- Metallic Materials
- Fabrication Methods
- Process Controls
- Manufacturing Challenges
- Machining
- Welding
- Forming
- Joining
- Heat Treatment
- Assembly
- Additive Manufacturing
- NDT/NDE
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Advanced degree
About the Company
- Canada Rocket Company is building a sovereign launch capability for Canada.