Staff Manufacturing Technology Engineer

Company Overview

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. Since 2009, our team has worked steadily to make this dream a reality. We’ve designed and tested many generations of prototype aircraft capable of serving in a network of electric air taxis. We’re looking for talented, committed individuals to join our team as we push onward toward certifying the Joby aircraft, scaling our manufacturing, and launching our initial commercial service.

Overview

As a Manufacturing Technology Engineer, you will be developing tooling, equipment, and layouts to support manufacturing processes and the production system. This role will plan movement simulations and digital twins of the production environment to drive efficient, rapid, on-time production and start-up of the new production capacity internally and with Contract Manufacturers for aircraft production.

The right person for this role has designed tooling for all types of injection molding and metal-formed and drawn parts. This role will enable production systems and manufacturing models of the work environment for a variety of product lines, groups, or businesses, and will be integrated with both internal and external customers. If you are someone who wants to develop innovative, adaptive, flexible, creative approaches to manufacturing production systems and develop unified solutions for lots of stakeholders, then this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Design tooling and equipment that integrate with factory manufacturing equipment, CNC machinery, and robotic welding equipment to enable processing systems for supporting factory development and the future production system.
• You will utilize computer-aided design, simulation, and computer graphics to enable lean manufacturing principles, integrated metrology and visual management, including technologies, tools, and processes to improve production flow while enhancing product performance, space allocation, and resource requirements across programs and products.
• Support tooling and equipment integration, commissioning, and certification in prototype and production development.
• Develop, review, and validate tooling and equipment concepts to meet performance requirements.
• Team with manufacturing technology, facilities, and suppliers to create, source, and assess potential equipment and tooling to solve production needs.
• Be on the floor communicating and integrating with fellow engineers and manufacturing personnel to perpetuate a cohesive mission-oriented culture.
• Drive collaboration with manufacturing technology, product design, manufacturing engineering, operations, facilities and construction, environmental safety & health, and supply chain to deliver creative system designs, as well as external vendors supporting the design, construction, and commissioning of new facilities for internal customers.
• Define and develop all post-molding and stamped metal production to meet the requirements as specified by Product Design.
• Coordinating between Materials and Processes, Quality and Manufacturing, while collaborating with Global Supply Chain managers to sustain Supply Chain planning.

Required

• 10+ years of experience as a designer and developer of tooling, equipment, and processes for manufacturing technology development, for molded parts of all types, stamped metal, and formed sheet metal.
• Manufacturing Engineering Degree or 10 years of verifiable relevant work experience in plastic mold development, processing, and commissioning.
• Experience in metal die development and commissioning complex sheet metal parts to production run rates.
• Technology development and implementation experience in equipment and tooling for large-scale manufacturing.
• Ability to work hands-on in a manufacturing environment, next to operations and manufacturing engineering, to understand and optimize the production system.
• Demonstrated ability to create and fabricate mechanisms based on DFM processes to meet PFMEA and DFMEA identified part risks and performance demands.
• Provide risk assessment for parts that require PPAP and have been identified as Safety of Flight critical to function parts or assemblies.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Desired

• Experience designing, manufacturing, procuring, installing, and maintaining tooling, fixturing, and manufacturing equipment and tooling.
• Catia, SolidWorks, Siemens NX, 3D design system experience.
• Process improvement, including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes.
• Application of lean manufacturing and linear flow principles in a production environment.
• Automation development for manufacturing processes in assembly, integration, test, and finishing operations.
• Design and construction of tooling, fixturing and equipment with strict attention to details and requirements as defined by Product Design.

Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The target base pay for this position is $124,600 - $188,700 per year. The compensation package offered will be determined by location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Joby also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with a company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.

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