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Why SURVICE?

Come join the SURVICE Engineering mission to protect, enhance, and enable those who defend the United States. Since 1981, we have supported the DoD community, as well as Homeland Security, advanced technologies, environmental, and commercial markets. Our employees have backgrounds in engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science, acquisition, technical writing, training, and other technical and administrative fields. And many of our personnel have DoD and/or operational military experience. If you're looking for a challenging and rewarding career with a leading organization, come see what we can offer you!

Position

Additive Manufacturing Engineer

• Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
• Security Clearance: Active Clearance or Eligible to Obtain - U.S. citizenship required
• Salary: $75,000 - $90,000 Depending on Experience and Education
• Travel: 5%
• Benefits: SURVICE Engineering offers a total rewards package to include competitive salaries, comprehensive insurance options, paid time off, 401k, flexible spending, tuition reimbursement.

Position Summary

SURVICE Engineering is currently seeking a Additive Manufacturing Engineer to support our Aberdeen Research Operation. You will accelerate your career and become an integral team member within the defense community.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Engineer specializing in the operation of composite fiber placement and/or polymer additive manufacturing equipment, perform materials characterizations on polymer additive manufacturing feedstocks, and evaluate mechanical properties of products manufactured.
• Interpret control software and interface system to operate manufacturing equipment for manufacturing engineered structures using fiber placement or additive manufacturing tools.
• Mechanically test or evaluate products formed using Instron or equivalent load frames and be capable of establishing test protocols to software systems related to mechanical analysis.
• Interpret results and analyze performance of measured systems to provide design of experiments.
• Characterize materials using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), according to ASTM expected processes.
• Operate technical equipment for polymer additive manufacturing processes.
• Operate fiber draw facility and feedstock formation to support continuous fiber drawing from polymer feedstocks.
• Design layer by layer assembly of systems based upon material properties of the feedstocks (polymer or fiber reinforced).
• Design prototype concepts for testing material properties.
• Measure materials response using appropriate ASTM or equivalent standard test protocols.
• Prepare presentations and written documents summarizing efforts in Government format for Form 1 approval (process of instruction provided by COR as GFI).

Minimum Qualifications of Additive Manufacturing EngineerBachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Materials Engineering and 1 years of relevant experience or PhD and 0 years of relevant experience. Exceptional candidates with less experience will be considered. Candidates are not required to possess all qualifications; if you possess some of the desired qualifications, please apply.

• Experience with design of experiments methods.
• Hands-on experience with manufacturing or processing of composites or additive manufacturing methods.

About Us

SURVICE Engineering is a nationally recognized, single-source engineering service provider for Government and Industry organizations involved in all phases of the systems engineering process. Our employees are our most valuable asset, and they are proud to have supported the development, testing, analysis, and modeling and simulation (M&S) of many of the major U.S. air, land, and sea combat systems in the field today. They have also contributed their expertise to other vital national defense programs and technologies that involve survivability, cybersecurity, information technology/management, software engineering, unmanned aerial systems (UASs), and metrology/reverse engineering.

SURVICE Engineering is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.