Senior Composites Technician
Layup PartsComposite Manufacturing company
Huntington Beach, United StatesSenior
Founders Fund
Lux Capital
Marlinspike
Haystack
Cerberus Ventures
Pinegrove Venture Partners
About the role
TL;DR
Support the 2nd shift at Layup Parts, a technology-first manufacturing startup.
- •Key Responsibilities Prepare and maintain tooling: Sand, polish, seal, release, and maintain molds.
- •Lay up parts: Place plies using templates, dimensions, or projection systems; apply release film, peel ply, breather, thermocouples, etc.
- •Bag and cure: Build and install vacuum bags, perform leak tests, and run assigned cure cycles.
- •Demold and finish: Remove cured parts, trim, bond assemblies, and prepare bond lines.
- •Drive improvements: Provide feedback to engineering for process and design enhancements.
- •Stay organized: Document material usage, freeze/thaw status, cure data, and production activities in Layup’s internal systems.
- •Requirements Be awesome! Be the kind of person you want to work with! Have 10+ years experience as a technician in prepreg composites manufacturing.
- •Be a strong team member, able to give and accept help to deliver quality parts on time.
- •Identify and solve problems quickly, and communicate issues clearly to leadership and engineering to prevent recurring issues.
- •Have a high sense of urgency, with a strong attention to detail and a resolve to deliver the highest quality.
- •Be comfortable to read and interpret layup books, as well as working from process controlling work instructions.
- •Be proficient in using common measuring and assembly tools such as calipers, scales, tape measures, torque wrenches, hand drills, etc.
- •Be comfortable learning new methods and technologies, and incorporating them into your workflow.
- •Ability to lift 50 lbs, stand for long periods and work hands-on in a production setting.
Domain expertise
aerospacedefense
Benefits & perks
Shift Differential