TPI Composites, Inc
Senior Composite Design Engineer (Architecture)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Conceptual and detailed design of composite components and assemblies
• Generate solid and surface component and assembly CAD models
• Create and modify 2D drawings
• Compose and track bill of materials for production components
• Work as part of a team of design and manufacturing engineering staff
• Compose and track material specifications when required
• Create fabrication work instructions when required
• Ability to run finite element analyses primarily using layered shell elements
• Generate finite element analysis reports
Education/ Skills/ Experience:
• The successful candidate will possess the following:
• B.S. degree in Mechanical or related engineering field required
• Minimum 6 years related experience required
• Experienced with composite part fabrication and assembly is required
• Hands-on composites manufacturing experience using hand layup, VARTM, compression molding, or RTM techniques
• Stress and displacement analysis skills by hand calculations and FE software
• Experienced using ANSYS 19 or similar established FE software package
• Experience with CATIA V5 Composite Design (CD3) preferred
• Experience with Solidworks 2018 or later a plus
• All Microsoft Office 365 software suite including MS Project Online
• Develop and execute a design-of-experiments
• Interface with outside test facilities and materials vendors
• Author technical reports and procedures
• Knowledge of advanced textile design and manufacturing
• Understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
• Great problem solving and communication skills
• Ability to work on projects demanding fast production startups
• Familiarity with 5S, Kaizen, lean manufacturing techniques is a plus
• Quality orientation and high attention to detail
• Ability to maintain safe work environment.