R&T Engineer, Textiles

Job Purpose

Job Responsibilities

• In performing their respective tasks and duties, all employees are expected to adhere to Albany’s current values: Albany Wins Together, Count on Each Other, Own Your Actions, Care About Each Other, and Share Your Enthusiasm. Safety must always come first; we never compromise on safety for the sake of achieving another objective. Employees are also responsible for the health and safety of themselves and each other.
• Support the design, verification, and validation process of new woven products, technologies, and methods, as they apply to composite manufacturing, including material and component fabrication and physical testing.
• Perform, as necessary, woven preform design, process development, equipment evaluation and manufacturing process modeling using commercial and in-house Computer Aided Design and Engineering (CAD & CAE) software.
• Evaluate the results of computational models and compare with experiments to assess the performance of processes, materials and structures.
• Provide project leaders and supervisors with input for engineering/technical project updates and communication as needed by internal and external customers
• Nothing in this document restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Supervisory Responsibility

• No

Shift

Qualifications/Characteristics

• BSc in Textile, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering (other STEM disciplines and BSc degree with equivalent experience will also be considered) or equivalent work experience with a BS.
• Demonstrated experience with modern composite preform manufacturing methods (weaving, braiding, tufting, fiber placement, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience with technical textile design and analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Willingness to perform "hands-on" work in dynamic work setting
• Team player
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with, and knowledge of, weaving related equipment and processes, preferably related to composite manufacturing.
• Proficient with computer based textile and composite related software
• NedGraphics, EAT, others
• Catia, Solidworks, others
• FiberSIM, PAM-FORM, LSdyna, others
• Knowledgeable in LEAN/6 Sigma tools and methodology
• Computer Aided Design (CAD) skills with Solidworks, AutoCAD, Pro/E, NX, CATIA, etc.
• Demonstrated leadership skills

Working Conditions

Physical requirements

• Occasionally positions self to move items up to 25 lbs.
• Frequently move about the production floor and office area to attend meetings or trainings.
• Frequently operates a computer, enters data into systems, verifies information, etc…

Location Address

• Rochester, NH, USA

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