{"id":921185,"url":"https://alion.io/job/electra-senior-structural-assembly-manufacturing-engineer","title":"Senior Structural Assembly Manufacturing Engineer","company":{"id":93694,"name":"Electra","domain":"electra.aero","url":"https://alion.io/company/electra-aero","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Olten, Switzerland","Springfield, United States","Wichita, United States"],"countries":["CH","US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":130000,"max":155000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":155000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AS9100","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-14T20:10:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T02:09:03Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":54,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":54},"description":"About Electra\nAir travel is about to become something more: more direct, more accessible, and more connected to the places where people live, work and want to be. Every day in the U.S., people make 35 million trips of 50-500 miles, stuck in traffic or routed through crowded hubs. Chances are, you've been one of them. At Electra, we're changing that with the EL9, a nine-passenger, hybrid-electric aircraft that takes off and lands in just 150 feet. Our Ultra Short technology opens up thousands of new places to fly, beyond conventional runways, congested airports and long drives. We're backed by Lockheed Martin, Honeywell and Safran. Operators worldwide have signed intent-to-purchase agreements for the first 2,200 aircraft we produce, and we're moving toward first test flights in 2027.\nGetting a new kind of aircraft airborne takes more than ambition. It takes our kind of bold: people who think big while working in the real world. Who move ideas into action and collaborate without silos. Who put people first and make room at the table for everyone. Who challenge one another without diminishing one another.\nSound like you? Then look beyond what you thought were your own limits, and help us take flight beyond runways.\nThe Role\nAs Electra's Senior Structural Assembly Manufacturing Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing and industrializing the structural assembly processes for the EL9 aircraft, working from early product development through prototype build, production implementation, and ramp-up.\nYou'll work closely with Product Engineering during aircraft development to ensure structural designs incorporate Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) principles and can be efficiently, repeatably, and reliably produced. You'll bring a hands-on manufacturing perspective to structural design decisions, evaluating assembly sequence, tolerance management, access, tooling, fastening and joining methods, inspection requirements, producibility, and production risk.\nAs the EL9 transitions from design into physical hardware, you'll help translate released engineering into executable manufacturing processes and support prototype and initial aircraft builds. You'll work closely with airframe manufacturing suppliers, providing on-site Manufacturing Engineering oversight and liaison support as needed to ensure proper information flow, resolve technical and quality issues, support the incorporation of product changes and support supply chain on contract management.\nThis is an opportunity to influence both how the aircraft is designed and how it is ultimately built, while helping establish Electra's structural assembly manufacturing supply chain capability from the ground up.\nWhat You'll Do\nPartner with Product Engineering throughout aircraft development to ensure structural designs incorporate Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) principles and support efficient, repeatable, and scalable production.\nReview aircraft structural designs, assemblies, drawings, models, and engineering changes from a manufacturing perspective, providing recommendations related to producibility, assembly sequence, access, tolerance stack-up, fastening and joining methods, tooling, inspection, and production risk.\nParticipate in design trade studies, concept reviews, and design reviews, representing Manufacturing Engineering and identifying manufacturing constraints and opportunities early in the development cycle.\nProvide Manufacturing Engineering oversight and liaison support at airframe and structural suppliers, working directly with supplier manufacturing teams to clarify design and manufacturing intent, resolve producibility and assembly issues, and maintain program execution.\nWork closely with the airframe supplier Tooling Engineering to define assembly tooling concepts, requirements, locating strategies, interfaces, and implementation plans.\nReview supplier manufacturing approaches, build plans, assembly processes, tooling concepts, and production readiness to ensure alignment with Electra's engineering requirements and program objectives.\nSupport prototype fabrication, development aircraft assembly, first builds, and production implementation, providing hands-on Manufacturing Engineering support to resolve issues encountered during structural assembly.\nCoordinate technical resolution of manufacturing issues and nonconformances with Product Engineering, Stress, Quality, Supplier Quality, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders.\nCapture manufacturing lessons learned and supplier feedback from prototype and initial production builds and drive those learnings back into product design, manufacturing processes, tooling, and planning.\nSupport structural assembly production ramp-up by identifying constraints, resolving manufacturing issues, improving assembly processes, and driving improvements in quality, cost, schedule, and production rate.\nContribute to the development and continuous improvement of Electra manufacturing engineering standards, methods, processes, and best practices.\nWhat You Bring\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Aeronautical, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related engineering field.\n8+ years of aerospace manufacturing engineering experience, with significant experience in aircraft structural assembly and industrialization.\nStrong hands-on knowledge of aircraft structural assembly processes, including metallic and/or composite airframe structures, drilling, fastening, joining, shimming, sealing, alignment, and major structural integration.\nDemonstrated experience applying Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) principles during aircraft product development.\nExperience reviewing engineering drawings, 3D models, GD&T, tolerances, and engineering changes from a manufacturing and assembly perspective.\nExperience developing manufacturing plans, assembly sequences, work instructions, tooling requirements, and manufacturing engineering documentation.\nExperience supporting prototype, development, or first-production aircraft builds.\nExperience working directly with aircraft structures suppliers or manufacturing partners and supporting production activities in a factory environment.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively across Product Engineering, Stress, Quality, Supplier Quality, Supply Chain, Tooling, and Production organizations.\nStrong problem-solving skills and ability to make sound engineering recommendations in a fast-moving aircraft development environment.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal teams and external suppliers.\nAbility and willingness to travel to supplier and manufacturing locations as required by program needs.\nBonus Points\nExperience with clean-sheet aircraft development and transition from prototype into production.\nExperience with major structural assemblies such as fuselage, wing, empennage, control surfaces, or other primary airframe structures.\nExperience with aircraft assembly tooling, jigs, fixtures, determinant assembly, or advanced assembly methodologies.\nExperience with digital manufacturing tools, PLM/MES environments, manufacturing BOMs, and 3D model-based manufacturing.\nExperience with supplier industrialization, production readiness assessments, or manufacturing capability reviews.\nExperience with MRB, root cause corrective action, and production nonconformance resolution.\nExperience with AS9100 aerospace quality management systems.\nThis range reflects the anticipated hiring range across all eligible locations; actual compensation is determined based on your relevant experience, skills, and geographic location. Total compensation includes performance bonus and comprehensive benefits.\nCompensation Range\n$130,000—$155,000 USD\nWhat We Offer\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance; STD, LTD, and life insurance\nGenerous PTO, sick leave, and company holidays\nPaid winter break\n401(k) with immediate vesting\nFree catered lunches, coffee, snacks, and drinks at our Manassas headquarters\nFree on-site parking\nElectra is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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