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In this role you will be a senior technical contributor responsible for developing welding and joining capabilities that support Hydrasearch's aerospace, naval, and defense programs. This role focuses on solving complex manufacturing capability gaps and establishing the technical infrastructure required for growth in regulated markets.\nThis is a hands-on engineering capability development role centered on process development, qualification, and technical problem solving. You will work within a small, highly capable technical team executing rapid cycles of development, validation, and production transition. The successful candidate must balance the speed of a \"builder\" environment with the technical rigor required to maintain compliance.\nAt Hydrasearch, we value the contributions of our Military Veterans and proudly employ our nation’s heroes. Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.\nWhat You'll Do:\nCapability Creation: Identify and solve manufacturing capability gaps limiting growth and develop internal welding knowledge and standards.\n Hands-on Development: Drive rapid cycles of welding procedure development (WPS), procedure qualifications (PQR), and personnel qualifications (WPQ).\nTechnical Authority: Interpret and apply AWS, ASME, NAVSEA, and customer-specific welding requirements.\nDesign for Weldability: Provide early technical input to development teams to ensure manufacturability and prevent late-stage rework.\nSpecial Processes: Support the development of joining processes including welding, brazing, and tube joining.\nStrategic Transition: Support \"make vs. partner\" decisions and ensure the clean transition of qualified processes into production.\nWhat We're Looking For:\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Welding Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience: 10+ years or equivalent experience in welding engineering or welding process development within compliance-driven manufacturing environments.\n Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of welding metallurgy, various welding processes, and inspection methods (VT, PT, RT, UT).\nProcedure Qualification: Extensive experience qualifying welding procedures and developing welder certification programs.\nCompliance Knowledge: Thorough understanding of AS9100 special process requirements.\nExecution Mindset: A \"builder\" mindset with a bias toward execution over discussion and the ability to work effectively in small, fast-paced teams.\nTravel: Travel my be required, both domestically and internationally.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDefense Standards: Experience with defense or naval welding standards, specifically NAVSEA Tech Pub 248/278.\n Industry Certifications: Certified Welding Engineer (CWE) or relevant AWS credentials.\nRegulatory Excellence: Experience preparing for and supporting NADCAP welding process audits.\nAerospace Proficiency: Working knowledge of AWS D17.1 and D17.2 for aerospace welder qualification.\nSpecialized Joining: Exposure to brazing and tube joining processes in high-mix, low-volume environments.\nWhat We Offer:\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family\nCompetitive salary\nBonus programs\n401K retirement plan\nTraining opportunities\nTuition reimbursement\nPaid vacation, PTO, and holidays\nGym reimbursements, and more!\nWho We Are: Hydrasearch is a U.S. manufacturer specializing in fluid-transfer and control systems for maritime, aerospace, and defense applications. Since its founding in 1962, Hydrasearch has developed capabilities in hose assemblies, valve fittings, and customer machined parts, often to meet MIL-SPEC and naval standards.\nWe do not provide sponsorships to work in the United States.\nJoin us and be a part of a team that values your contributions and supports your goals!\nThe Dixon Group is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices and laws. Accordingly, to the fullest extent required by applicable law, The Dixon Group strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons.\nThe Dixon Group is committed to protecting the privacy rights of its employees and job applicants to the fullest extent required by applicable law. To that end, personal information will be collected solely for those legitimate business purposes recognized by law, and then maintained in a manner consistent with all applicable laws and regulations pertaining to document retention requirements. The Dixon Group does not sell personal information to third parties, and does not share such personal information with third parties except when authorized by law to do so (e.g., in response to a lawful subpoena; mandatory tax reporting; etc.)\nPlease contact us at (410) 778-2000 or  if you need help to participate fully in the application process.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5171,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Retirement plans","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T05:55:24Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":80,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.884,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":21,"expected_fill_days":53,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":156000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dixonvalve-sr-principal-welding-process-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dixonvalve-sr-principal-welding-process-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T08:56:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13579,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2582500},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2582500"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdixonvalve-sr-principal-welding-process-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdixonvalve-sr-principal-welding-process-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdixonvalve-sr-principal-welding-process-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dixonvalve-sr-principal-welding-process-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdixonvalve-sr-principal-welding-process-engineer"}]}