US Citizenship is required for all positions
Production Manager / Shop Foreman:
This position at DFM Engineering can be thought of as the Industrial Cheerleader of the company. The primary function every day is to find and eliminate roadblocks to our process of designing, building, shipping, installing, and testing our products. Pay dependent on experience.
Typical duties include:
- Drawing review: including tolerance review, design for manufacturability, and completeness
- Purchasing: Including finding and managing vendors, setting priorities, and preventing bottlenecks
- Create and/or manage: status reports, acceptance test sheets, operators manuals, and process tutorials
- Regular consultation with mechanical engineering team
- Shop and on-site safety supervisor
- General machine work on lathes, mills, and mag drill press
- Lifting and rigging: create and supervise rigging, lifting, and assembling large parts in our shop and on-site
- Aircraft type sheet metal work: including cutting, riveting, and fitting tube assemblies
- TIG welding experience (preferred)
- Prototype assembly and troubleshooting
- Optical alignment
- Product final testing before shipping and on-site
- Create and supervise packing of finished products
- Installation team member on large projects, and team leader on smaller projects
- Travel agent: Schedule travel plans, procure airline tickets, rental cars, hotels, food, travel visas, etc.
- Observatory building construction supervisor
Programmer / IT Admin
Looking for another software Guru for DFM Engineering. In addition to understanding how every mechanical part on telescopes functions, this role is responsible for the software / hardware interface. Preferred experience: Master degree in Astronomy with excellent programming skills. Pay dependent on experience.
Role includes (Many of these functions will be learned on the job):
- Familiarity with telescopes and pointing models
- Familiarity with motors and motor controls, troubleshooting electronic hardware and software
- Experienced in Pascal
- IT administration skills for Windows based network
- Verifying electronic builds, cabling, assemblies
- Testing of products before shipment
- Documentation of all code functionality for end users
- Customer support - understanding customer needs and requirements, troubleshooting and diagnosis of any issues, explaining proper procedures and methodologies
Useful prior skills:
- Creating custom circuit boards
- Experience with Delphi 6, 10 and 12 - ability to port older code
- Experience with Galil servo motion controllers
CAD / CAM Designer
- Designing precision mechanical parts and assemblies according to specifications, sketches and drafts
- Create drawings and parts lists
- Check feasibility and function of designs
- Examine shape design, dimensions and tolerances according to drafts or specifications in the 3D model
- Close collaboration in interdisciplinary project teams
- Propose, coordinate and work out design changes
- Maintain all files, logs, and records as required
- Provide design data in the form of 3D models, drawings, data sheets, and parts lists
- Understands production due dates and schedules programs to be in the correct priority for manufacturing
- Oversees production of parts
- Work within a fabrication environment with intermittent contact with machine noise and factory working conditions
- Carry out rough calculations for dimensioning components (strength, rigidity, cross-sections, center of gravity, mass)
- Experience with Autodesk Inventor / Fusion360 (or equivalent)
Speculative Applicants
Do you have skills you think would be valuable at DFM Engineering? Are you passionate about our business and want to become part of our team? Email us and tell us why it has to be DFM. If there isn't an immediate position suited to your skillset right now, we would love to still stay in touch and reach out to you as soon as something suitable becomes available. At DFM, we recognize those that are enthusiastic and motivated and will help you develop the skills needed to engage in our many exciting and challenging projects.