Manufacturing Engineer Composite Development

Preferred experience:
✔ Hands-on experience with composite manufacturing processes: Prepreg, RTM, Compression moulding
✔ Designing skills with Solidworks and/or Catia
✔ Know how work with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in a composite production environment
✔ Enjoy being on the shop floor as much as behind a CAD or Excel screen

• Have a structured and curious mindset - you solve problems by testing, improving and validating

• Have knowledge of EN9100 as a plus

• Communicate easily with both engineers and technicians

• You speak English fluently and can easily communicate using the appropriate technical terms, both verbally and in writing.

• You already hold a Dutch work visa or are an EU citizen. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship (under the Highly Skilled Migrant Scheme) for this position.

• You already live in the Netherlands, due to the travel time to our office.

• A one-year contract (32-40 hours) with prospect to permanent employment

• 25 vacations days

• Travel allowance

• Personal development opportunities

• Bike plan

• Good pension plan

Are your excited about composites and creating products and solutions? Join KVE to help us develop products such as radomes, rotor blades and aircraft components using various composite manufacturing processes.

To be an advanced composite development factory, where skilled people build products and create business for the group.

We are growing and we're looking for a Manufacturing Engineer who will turn composite designs into repeatable, scalable and technician-friendly production processes. You will bridge engineering and production. Your goal: ensure our composite products can be built efficiently, consistently and to the highest quality standards.

• Design composite parts for build to specification development projects

• Design and optimise toolings to manufacture composite parts

• Define and validate manufacturing process parameters for composite parts under development: Curing cycles, RTM, compression moulding.

• Bring the manufacturing maturity up to FAI and serial production

• Define and execute Qualification Test Plans to ensure performance and safety

• Prepare sample panels, coupons and prototypes

• Coordinate tests - microcuts, DSC, mechanical, NDI - to demonstrate compliance with specifications

• Write the Qualification Test Reports

• Be part of the prototypes or first article manufacturing in close collaboration with the technicians on the shopfloor

• Create clear Work Instructions and Process Standards to be easily usable in production

• Help turn process knowledge into visual, step-by-step guidance

• Define and deploy standard processes and reliable and safe tooling to ensure consistent and scalable production

• Be part of the transitioning from paper to digital work instructions

• Increase the safety culture in KVE

Throughout your work, you will apply and respect our EN9100 quality system, ensuring every deliverable meets aerospace-grade standards.

We work according to these principles:

• Drive - Strong inner motivation to achieve goals with a proactive attitude.

• Pragmatic - Focusing on solutions that are effective and realistic.

• Innovative - Bringing original ideas that create or improve value.

• Team Spirit - Working together in mutual trust and respect towards a common goal.

• Responsible - Being reliable, accountable and committed to doing the right thing for the company, customers and society.