About the role
We're Hiring: Manufacturing Engineer
Full-Time | Core Team
LAT Aerospace | Aircraft
LAT Aerospace is developing next-generation aerospace systems from first principles. This includes a hybrid electric aircraft that takes off and lands within a space of a parking lot, Defence systems built from ground up and scalable Gas Turbine Engines.
The Manufacturing Engineer role sits at the intersection of manufacturing engineering, supply chain, production planning, and operations. You will be responsible for building the systems that allow our engineering team to move fast without compromising quality, reliability, or execution.
What you'll do
- Develop and streamline manufacturing processes for composite and metallic aircraft structures.
- Own the manufacturing workflow from engineering drawings and BOMs through fabrication, assembly, inspection, and delivery.
- Develop composite manufacturing processes including layup, tooling, curing, trimming, bonding, and finishing.
- Plan production schedules and optimize machine, tooling, workshop, and technician utilization.
- Work closely with design and structures engineers on DFM/DFA and manufacturing-driven design improvements.
- Manage machine shops, composite technicians, vendors, and external manufacturing partners.
- Identify and eliminate manufacturing bottlenecks, rework, and quality issues.
- Develop work instructions, inspection procedures, manufacturing documentation, and quality processes.
- Support rapid prototype builds while developing repeatable processes for subsequent aircraft builds.
- Track manufacturing lead time, yield, quality, and throughput and continuously improve the production system.
What we're looking for
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in aircraft manufacturing or production engineering going through multiple build and assemble cycles.
- Strong hands-on experience with composite aircraft structures and manufacturing processes.
- Experience with composite materials, prepregs, layup, tooling, curing, bonding, trimming, and inspection.
- Experience working with aircraft structures, preferably wings, fuselage, empennage, or other primary/secondary structures.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, engineering drawings, tolerances, and DFM/DFA.
- Experience in training technicians, machine shops, suppliers, and external manufacturing partners.
- Comfortable working with manufacturing machinery including CNCs, Oven, and/or Autoclave.
- Comfortable working directly on the shop floor and with prototype hardware.
- Ability to balance speed, quality, cost, and on-time delivery in a rapidly changing environment.
- Experience with UAVs, general aviation, commercial aircraft, or other aerospace structures is preferred.
Why LAT?
- No hierarchy beyond strength of ideas.
- Rapid hardware iteration culture.
- Own the complete journey from engineering design to flight-ready hardware.