Description
Production Engineer
Location: Granite City, IL
Job Type: Full-time | On-site | DIRECT HIRE
Schedule: Monday to Friday | 1st Shift
About the Company:
A a well-established, rapidly growing aviation company with over 20 years of industry experience. We specialize in designing, assembling, and manufacturing high-quality aircraft brake discs and linings for the general and business aviation markets.
Position Overview:
As a Production Engineer, you will prepare design and certification data for replacement aircraft parts using reverse engineering practices in accordance with FAA AC 21.303-4. Your responsibilities will focus on ensuring design, material, and processing meet functional, safety, and manufacturing standards. You will build certification documents to demonstrate compliance for PMA (Parts Manufacturing Approval), while coordinating with internal and external teams and stakeholders. This autonomous, project-based role offers growth opportunities in engineering leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Research part function, operating conditions, and failure modes (including criticality classification) to guide engineering decisions
- Draft sketches, models, and drawings of parts and assemblies using SolidWorks
- Determine part tolerancing based on function, dimensions, manufacturability, and inspection requirements
- Specify materials and processes based on analysis and testing
- Prepare production drawings using ANSI/ASME Y14.5 GD&T and internal standards
- Develop certification documents in accordance with FAA AC 21.303-4 and obtain FAA approval
- Provide engineering support for sales, procurement, manufacturing, and receiving teams
Required Experience & Skills:
- 5+ years of relevant experience in design, certification, or manufacturing
- CAD/3D modeling experience (SolidWorks preferred)
- Familiarity with aerospace specifications and processes
- Knowledge of drafting standards and GD&T
- Strong technical writing skills
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience with aircraft components and systems strongly preferred
- Shop/hands-on experience preferred
- Reverse engineering experience preferred
- Understanding of FAA standards preferred
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering required
Compensation & Benefits:
- Salary: Commensurate with experience and skills
- Paid sick leave and vacation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with matching contributions
- Opportunity for advancement within the company
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.
Why Kelly® Engineering?
Your engineering skills are in demand, but how do you find the right fit? Easy. At Kelly Engineering, our team creates expert talent solutions to solve the world's most critical challenges. We connect you with leading organizations where you can collaborate on innovative projects, work with cutting-edge technologies and accelerate your growth. Whether you prefer the variety and flexibility of short-term projects or are looking for a long-term opportunity, we're here to guide you to the next step in your engineering career.About Kelly
Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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