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About the Role
Solcoa is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to lead the hands-on buildout of vacuum induction melting (VIM) furnaces. This role involves transforming engineering designs into production-ready equipment, collaborating with various teams and suppliers, and establishing shop capabilities, procedures, and quality standards for efficient scaling of production.
Responsibilities
- Lead the buildout of multiple VIM furnace systems, including mechanical assembly, vacuum and gas handling, and power and controls integration.
- Resolve integration issues, verify system readiness, and commission each furnace through first melts.
- Review and sign off on fabrication packages before parts are released for manufacture.
- Catch manufacturability, tolerance, material, and assembly issues early, and work with engineering to resolve them.
- Own procurement of furnace components, long-lead parts, tooling, and shop consumables.
- Source and qualify vendors, evaluate quotes, and track deliveries against the build schedule.
- Resolve technical questions with suppliers and outside machine shops to ensure fabrication progress.
- Coordinate fabrication technicians, contractors, and outside shops to deliver builds on schedule and to specification.
- Translate designs into clear work packages and assembly sequences, manage dependencies, and resolve problems on the shop floor.
- Establish tooling, fixtures, shop layout, and work instructions for efficient assembly and testing.
- Develop safe operating procedures for high-temperature and vacuum equipment.
Requirements
- Hands-on buildout of vacuum induction melting (VIM) furnaces.
- Work directly with engineering, suppliers, fabrication technicians, and contractors.
- Deliver multiple furnace systems from drawing review and procurement through assembly, commissioning, and first melts.
- Establish shop capabilities, build procedures, and quality standards.
- Resolve integration issues.
- Verify system readiness.
- Review and sign off on fabrication packages.
- Catch manufacturability, tolerance, material, and assembly issues.
- Work with engineering to resolve issues before parts are cut.
- Own procurement of furnace components, long-lead parts, tooling, and shop consumables.
- Source and qualify vendors.
- Evaluate quotes.
- Track deliveries against the build schedule.
- Work directly with suppliers and outside machine shops to resolve technical questions.
- Keep fabrication moving.
- Coordinate fabrication technicians, contractors, and outside shops.
- Deliver builds on schedule and to specification.
- Translate designs into clear work packages and assembly sequences.
- Manage dependencies.
- Resolve problems on the shop floor.
- Establish tooling, fixtures, shop layout, and work instructions.
- Develop safe operating procedures for high-temperature and vacuum equipment.
Skills
- Vacuum induction melting (VIM) furnace assembly
- Mechanical assembly
- Vacuum and gas handling
- Power and controls integration
- System commissioning
- Fabrication package review
- Procurement
- Supplier management
- Vendor qualification
- Technical problem-solving
- Shop floor coordination
- Work package creation
- Assembly sequence planning
- Tooling and fixture establishment
- Shop layout design
- Work instruction development
- Safe operating procedure development
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary
Benefits
- Generous stock options
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance
- Company-provided lunch daily
- Visa sponsorship available
About the Company
- Solcoa is building the next generation of American metalmaking, starting with rare earths — the metals of power and motion.
- We've developed a new chemistry that converts rare earth oxides into high-purity metals — the materials inside every EV, fighter jet, wind turbine, and data center — cleaner, cheaper, and faster than any conventional process.
- Now we're scaling it to thousands of tonnes of annual production.