Job Description

Overview

Join a dynamic team that is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company aims to reinvent the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero-emission energy for a sustainable future.

Responsibilities

  • Develop documentation for the manufacture of HTS magnets, including processes, procedures, work instructions, and quality criteria.
  • Design, build, and commission magnet manufacturing tooling and equipment.
  • Collaborate with magnet engineers to incorporate design for manufacture and lessons learned.
  • Develop and implement virtual and physical inventory management and manufacturing BOMs.
  • Generate specifications and collaborate with vendors to procure hardware that meets quality standards.
  • Define roles and coordinate onboarding of manufacturing technicians.
  • Track and report results and progress against program goals and milestones.
  • Communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of manufacturing engineering experience with a related degree.
  • Experience with complex electrical and mechanical hardware assemblies.
  • Process development experience including tooling, fixtures, machines, and automation.
  • Expertise in metal fusion processes, including soldering, brazing, and welding.
  • Experience in scaling from first-of-a-kind to continuous production.
  • Proficiency in generating and interpreting manufacturing drawings, particularly GD&T.
  • Experience with planning and execution software such as PLM, MRP, and inventory management.
  • Ability to solve highly multidisciplinary engineering problems.
  • Strong initiative and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This role is part of a 50-person startup company that is expanding rapidly, aiming to grow to 150-200 employees during Series-B funding and ultimately to 1,000 employees over the next 2-3 years.
  • For advanced-level candidates, there is the option to work fully remotely, given a strong ability to self-start with minimal training.
  • Mid-level candidates (4+ years) are ideally based in NJ for a hybrid work schedule.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Kearny, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $58/hr, this posting sits about 114% above the $27/hr median for manufacturing welder jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $22–$32/hr middle band drawn from 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Kearny, NJ

Kearny, NJ is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 161 other active welding openings from 121 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valcor Engineering Corporation (6), UPS (4), and Depot Connect International (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New Jersey, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Newark at $35/hr and Cherry Hill at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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