Castelion

Overview

Castelion is rapidly developing advanced defense systems and is looking for a Lead Special Processes to oversee specialized manufacturing processes for aerospace and defense hardware. This role offers significant ownership and collaboration opportunities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily special-process activities, assigning work and coordinating priorities across the process team.
• Train, mentor, and provide technical direction to technicians and operators while promoting a culture of ownership, safety, quality, and procedural compliance.
• Interpret and execute engineering drawings, CAD models, specifications, process standards, work instructions, travelers, and controlled procedures.
• Develop, document, and oversee special processes, including bonding, sealing, welding, brazing, coating, surface preparation, heat treatment, or other process-specific operations as required.
• Coordinate with design and manufacturing engineering to resolve process issues, provide producibility feedback, and implement design or process improvements.
• Plan labor, materials, equipment, tooling, facilities, and work-cell readiness to maintain an efficient and predictable process flow.
• Establish and verify process parameters, acceptance criteria, inspection methods, and required records in partnership with quality and engineering.
• Lead process qualification, validation, first-article, and capability activities; document results and ensure compliance with applicable specifications and procedures.
• Investigate nonconformances, defects, and process deviations; perform or support root-cause analysis and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain clean, organized, and appropriately controlled work areas, including cleanroom or contamination-controlled environments when required.
• Drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, throughput, repeatability, standard work, tooling, and special-process capability.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in special processes, production and/or R&D process development, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating the work of a special-process, manufacturing, or production team.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, GD&T, CAD models, bills of material, work instructions, and technical documentation.
• Working knowledge of process control, qualification, validation, inspection, traceability, and quality-system requirements for special processes.
• Experience with one or more aerospace or high-reliability special processes, such as bonding, sealing, welding, brazing, coating, heat treatment, surface preparation, or non-destructive testing.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering, quality, supply chain, and operations teams in a fast-paced research and development and production environment.

Additional Information

• This is a full-time position located at the Torrance, CA facility.
• This position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites.