Manufacturing Engineer

What is JetZero? 

Today’s aircraft contribute around 4% of global CO2 emissions, equivalent to the emissions of 200 million cars. This is only going to increase: Air travel is forecasted to double by 2050, while meaningful efficiency gains using current airplanes have hit a wall. 

JetZero is developing a blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft. It uses up to 50% less fuel and will be built to accommodate zero-emission hydrogen propulsion. JetZero is the inevitable solution to sustainable air travel. 

The JetZero Team 

We are experienced aerospace professionals and engineers, excited about the future. That future will only be possible if we share our vision and what it means to people’s lives: carbon-free flight that' is better for both passengers and airlines around the world. 

We are seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team and revolutionize the role of manufacturing planning within the aviation industry. This role will focus on collaborating within an integrated product team to develop innovative solutions and create a producible product. Manufacturing Engineers will be responsible for driving design for manufacturing (DFM) principles into the product development process, ensuring designs are optimized for producibility, cost, quality, and scalability. They will collaborate closely with design teams to influence material selection, tolerances, part consolidation, and assembly methods, while developing manufacturing processes, tooling strategies, and build sequences that enable efficient, repeatable production so that our future manufacturing efforts can thrive.

What You'll Do:

• Create comprehensive work package instructions to translate design concepts into actionable, production-ready processes.
• Design efficient guidelines and standards for producibility of the build
• Develop and validate manufacturing processes, tooling, and build strategies that enable efficient, repeatable production.
• Collaborate with structures and systems engineering to ensure engineering models are designed for manufacturing and fully producible at rate
• Leverage kinetic, robotic, and continuous simulations to develop assemblies that are efficient and producible.
• Maintain alignment across design, planning, and execution systems (CAD, BOM, BOP) while managing manufacturing impacts of engineering changes.
• Design and implement reproducible work center breakdowns to align labor types with specialized tooling and automation requirements.
• Define and document all predecessor and successor work packages for each statement of work to ensure seamless production flow.