Welding Engineer

Job Highlights

Title	Welding Engineer
Type	Full Time
Experience	Required
Function	Management/Manufacturing
Location	Huntsville, AL, United States
Company	Amentum

Company Profile

Amentum is a premier global leader in designing, engineering, managing, and modernizing critical systems and programs of national significance across defense, security, intelligence, energy, and the environment.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Welding Engineer who will assist in engineering/science problem resolution and task completion through direction, mentoring, and guidance.

Monitors work performed, ensuring work meets requirements and deadlines.

Possesses the ability to solve problems, determine project objectives and requirements, organize projects, provide innovative approaches, and develop standards and guides for diverse activities.

Plans and develops engineering/science projects addressing unique or controversial problems that have an important effect on major organization programs. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope, and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.

Education Level

• BS Degree in Welding Engineering or related field from an ABET-accredited university is required.
• Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a minimum of a Master’s degree with at least 8 years of experience, or a BS with at least 10 years of experience.

Work Experience

• Possess work-related experience

Duties/Responsibilities

• Conduct research and development investigations to develop and test new welding processes and procedures, improve existing or develop new welding equipment, develop new or modify current welding methods, techniques, and procedures, discover new patterns of welding phenomena, or correlate and substantiate hypotheses.
• Develop welding techniques, procedures, and application of welding equipment to problems involving fabrication of metals, utilizing knowledge of production specifications, properties and characteristics of metals and metal alloys, and engineering principles.
• Direct and coordinate technical personnel in performing inspections to ensure workers’ compliance with established welding procedures, restrictions, and standards.
• Establish welding procedures to guide production and welding personnel relating to specification restrictions, material processes, and pre-and post-weld heating requirements which involve the use of complex alloys, unusual fabrication methods, and welding of critical joints.
• Evaluate new developments in the welding field for possible application to current welding problems or production processes.
• Exchange ideas, and information, or offer technical advice concerning welding matters.
• Help other EM32 W&M Team customers understand and resolve problems related to their welding manufacturing processes.
• Perform experimental welding to evaluate new equipment, techniques, and materials.
• Prepare technical reports resulting from research and development.
• Serve as project lead engineer to manage specific assigned customer welding development and manufacturing development projects.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

Safety Certifications-

• Welding Safety-
• ANSI/AWS D17.1/D17.1M:2017-AMD2, “Specification for Fusion Welding for Aerospace Applications.”
• ANSI/AWS D17.3/D17.3M:2021, “Specification for Friction Stir Welding of Aluminum Alloys for Aerospace Applications.”

Desired, but not Required-

• NASA-STD-6016, “Standard Materials and Processes Requirements for Spacecraft.”
• NASA-STD-5006, “General Fusion Welding Requirements for Aerospace Materials Used in Flight Hardware.”
• MSFC-SPEC-3679, “Process Specification – Welding Aerospace Hardware.”

Work Environment

• General office environment (40%), industrial welding/manufacturing development laboratory/machine shop (60%).
• Requires ability to interact effectively with co-workers, managers, and clients. Requires ability to provide clear, concise, and accurate communications, both verbally and in writing (50%).
• Travel may be necessary, but infrequent (<5%)

Physical Requirements

• Requires sitting for extended periods in meetings with peers, management, and with our client at NASA facilities to discuss technical issues (10%).
• Also, requires sitting for extended periods at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks (30%).
• Requires standing, sitting, and walking in a lab environment with hazards that require wearing safety glasses, hard hat, hearing protection, foot protection, gloves, or protective clothing to perform some operations (60%).
• Work will be performed on-site at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (100%).
• Use of stairs or elevators can gain access to buildings will be required.
• Some work requires using stairs or ladders to access elevated work platforms.
• Require lifting or maneuvering materials or equipment weighing up to 40 lbs.

Equipment/Machines

• Requires ability to operate a personal computer, telephone, fax machine, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).
• Requires ability to operate welding equipment (100%).

Employer’s Statement

Amentum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company provides equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.