Product Engineer - Aerospace Manufacturing

About the role

Join our engineering team at CPP’s Cudahy, CA aerospace manufacturing facility as a Product Engineer. You’ll help bring complex, high-performance aerospace components from concept to production, collaborating with teams across engineering, tooling, machining, quality, and operations. This role offers the opportunity to solve technical challenges, work across departments, and see your work fly on real aircraft.

Responsibilities

• Review, direct, and approve pattern designs to ensure dimensional control aligns with definition requirements and is consistently met at the most efficient rate of manufacture.
• Review, direct, and approve constituents necessary to achieve metallurgical property requirements, including gating methodology, heat treatment parameters, and sand mold attributes.
• Identify and improve process yields using data analysis techniques (statistical, mathematical, DOE, 6 Sigma, etc.) to uncover variables in the process.
• Support Sales and Quality personnel in customer interactions regarding technical characteristics of casting design specifications and manufacturing methods.
• Provide technical support to Production Supervisors for the manufacture of castings.
• Collaborate across teams to accomplish company goals.
• Routinely audit production lots for adherence to established techniques and ensure repeatability of results.
• Maintain strong verbal communications with all levels of management and manufacturing.
• Comply with all safety, DOT, HAZMAT, and environmental policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required; Material Science or related field preferred.
• 5–7 years of experience in Product Engineering.
• CAD experience, SolidWorks preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively at all levels of the organization, including directly with customers.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Strong mathematical skills.
• Must be a U.S. person (U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, or Refugee) due to ITAR requirements.
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent and consistent basis without company sponsorship now or in the future.

Benefits

• Quarterly bonus program.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays.
• Overtime opportunities to increase earnings.
• Career development support, including GD&T certification.
• Exposure to advanced aerospace casting technologies.

Pay

$100,000 – $130,000 annually (DOE).

This is a full-time position.