Lead, Material Process Engineer
L3Harris · Huntsville, AL
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Process
- Travel
- 15%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 9+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 22 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management process role at L3Harris (aerospace & defense) in Huntsville, AL. By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the.
- They ask for
- 9+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause
- Day to day
- about 15% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Process Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $93k–$130k.
Median of the low and high ends of 348 live postings that list pay, out of 921 process engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Alabama plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 22 other live process postings in Alabama.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (9+ vs 4+)
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 35%
- Tooling 26%
- Six Sigma 22%
- ✓ Root cause 22%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Process team at L3Harris
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- The posting says about 15% travel. Between which sites?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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This plant: L3Harris in Huntsville
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Full description from L3HarrisAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Essential Functions
- ◆Support design process by providing material selection recommendations, creating material specifications, reviewing design drawings, reviewing manufacturing planning, providing supplier technical support and supporting Engineering Review Boards, Process Change Boards, Failure Review Boards customer technical interchange meetings.
- ◆Develop test plans in coordination with Design and Analysis disciplines and characterize non-metallic materials; analyze material properties and develop design allowables per industry standards; summarize material properties and design allowable methodology in a written report.
- ◆Perform engineering analysis of non-conforming hardware including coordination of analysis for disposition of Material Review Board documents. Maintain interactions with customers on materials obsolescence. Conduct project progress reviews to ensure program control. Conduct failure analyses to determine root cause, document technical conclusions of failure investigations.
- ◆Provide on-site support at L3Harris manufacturing facilities and supplier manufacturing facilities, as required, to assist in troubleshooting and problem solving production related issues.
- ◆Collaborate with Design and Manufacturing Engineers to develop robust manufacturing processes for various solid rocket motor components requiring long term storage and understand the fundamentals of general corrosion protection and galvanic corrosion mitigation for metal components.
- ◆Support Parts, Materials and Process (PMP)
requirements
from customers; complete and submit PMP documentation (ADPMPL, NSMAR, NSMPAR, variances, etc) and subcontractor delivery
requirements
documents as required; support customer PMP Control Board meetings.
- ✓Travel: 15% - to support work at suppliers and other enterprise locations.
- ✓Ability to obtain a US secret security clearance.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior materials or chemical enginering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior materials or chemical enginering experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior materials or chemical enginering experience.
- ✓4 years experience with polymeric materials.
requirements
for access to classified information.
By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.
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L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Job Title: Lead, Materials & Process Engineering
Job Location: Huntsville, AL
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off
Job Description
The Missile Solutions Business Segment of L3Harris is seeking a Lead, Materials & Process Engineer with non-metallic and metallic materials experience to support ongoing Engineering and Manufacturing Development programs, production programs and new product development. Desired experience with materials/materials systems is as follows: ceramic matrix composites such as Carbon/Silicon Carbide, Carbon-Carbon/Silicon Carbide and Carbon/Carbon materials; graphite and refractory metals – Molybdenum, Rhenium and Tungsten.
Preferred Additional Skills
- +Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following Engineering disciplines: Materials, Materials Science, and Ceramics Engineering is preferred.
- +Familiar with MIL-STD-11991 or other DOD/Agency Parts, Materials and Processes requirements.
- +Strong communication, technical presentation, teamwork, and Microsoft Office skills are required.