Composites Technician

About the role

The Bike Shop, part of the Hardware Engineering directorate, serves as a rapid-prototyping and product-development hub supporting engineering teams across the organization. Our mission is to provide fast, high-quality prototypes, early-stage demonstration hardware, and hands-on development support that accelerates engineering solutions throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret engineering drawings, models, and specifications.
• Understand tolerances, ply schedules, fiber orientations, and surface-finish requirements to ensure parts meet design intent.
• Estimate fabrication tasks (labor hours, material costs, lead times) in a timely manner while identifying manufacturability issues and tooling required.
• You will use your skills to communicate and negotiate technical requirements.
• Initiate quoting and ordering of raw materials, hardware, and machine tools for each project.
• Perform hands on fabrication in composites shop, including but not limited to mold making, vacuum forming, woodworking, silicones, part marking/stencil making, carbon fiber layups, fiberglass work, etc.
• Perform trimming, sanding, bonding, installing inserts like Helicoils, Keenserts and assembly operations.
• Carry out wet layup, prepreg layup, bagging, curing, demolding, part trimming, drilling, bonding using adhesives/films, paint/stenciling and final part finishing.
• Perform mechanical/electro-mechanical integration.
• Responsible for doing final inspection of the composite parts and also final close out of projects.

Qualifications

• Typically requires an AA/AS degree, (or another 2-year post high school training) and a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in a manufacturing or composites shop environment.
• Experience with composites and woodworking.
• Experience with adhesives and silicones.
• Experience with reading fabrication drawings.

What We Offer

• Safety
• Trust
• Respect
• Accountability
• Collaboration
• Innovation

Pay

The salary range for this role is 60,000 USD - 114,000 USD.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short-term Disability
• Long-term Disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Flexible Work Schedules
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• Holidays