CNC Composite Technician – Wave Energy

Working at CorPower Ocean you will be part of a world class team, determined to make big impact. We are on a mission to Power the Planet with clean electricity from ocean waves. We offer autonomy and flexibility, combined with personal responsibility. CorPower Ocean is a global leader in wave energy, with a technology that has shown game-changing performance. Your work will contribute to the global energy transition by unlocking one of the largest untapped sources of clean energy on earth. Since the start in 2012 CorPower has raised more than 115mEUR to take our wave energy technology to market, supporting a growing commercial project pipeline.

Role:

As a CNC Composite Technician, you will play a key role in programming, operating, and optimizing an advanced CNC system that integrates filament winding, spray application, and milling technologies. You will join our Composite Manufacturing Team in Portugal, contributing directly to the development of scalable, high‑quality production processes within a strong safety‑driven culture.

The Composite Manufacturing Team is responsible for developing and industrializing composite manufacturing processes with a focus on repeatability, quality, safety, and efficiency. This role combines hands‑on manufacturing with technical process development and requires close collaboration with the Composite, Engineering, and Design teams to build a world‑class automated production environment.

Responsibilities:

• Programming and optimizing CNC machines for filament winding, spray applications and milling

• Being the lead operator of our bespoke winding cell for 10m diameter composite hulls, with responsibility for safety, throughput and quality of the final product

• Establish requirements for machine improvements (tooling, jigs, software, spare parts) and support design/acquisition in a continuous process improvement effort

• Prepare and execute maintenance plans to keep composite winding machine, spray and milling functions in accurate working conditions

• Control spare parts in-house to reduce cost of ownership and minimize downtimes

• Hands on work with filament and/or band winding machines, resin mixing equipment, chop strand guns, electrical stitchers and scissors, and any other equipment utilized during the winding process to feed fiberglass roving and tape bobbins to the machine

• Feedback insight from CNC manufacturing and composite assembly to composite design team to continuously improve product design and component selection.

• Work to constantly improve safety aspects in our Mobile Factory Cell environment, and ensure compliance with national/EU directives

• Support the preparation and execution of test parts or coupons

• Work closely with other functions, to ensure achieving overall project objectives

Skills and qualifications:

• 5 years or more of experience in CNC machine programming, optimization and operation

• Experience in automated processes for large high-end composite manufacturing (Aeronautics, Wind Energy, Racing-Yachts, etc.) will be valuable

• High level of technical and IT literacy, use of programming tools, CAD, Office tools (word, excel) and commitment to develop deep programming skills on Filament Winding machine control software is essential to this role. Proven experience using filament winding software such as Cadfil will be a plus.

• Ability to identify and implement efficient engineering systems for CNC data management.

• Strong generic engineering interest and, with formal qualifications being a plus.

• Knowledge related to automated composite manufacturing processes

• Understanding quality assurance concepts for composite manufacturing

• Demonstrates strong safety awareness and drive to consistently follow safety protocols to ensure safe and reliable CNC operations

• Good communication skills, motivated and able to use own initiative

• Proficient in English, both spoken and written

As a person:

• You are striving for excellence, put quality into everything you do

• You are self-motivated and hate to waste time

• You always search for the most sustainable solutions to difficult problems

• You love to learn new things, and take pride in constantly developing your skills

• You are persistent, knowing it takes stamina to reach pioneering goals

• You see your tasks through to completion

• You are comfortable in presenting your solutions internally and externally

• You are data driven and strive to always back your points with a solid research

• You are comfortable to work and maintain continuously a good relationship with external stakeholders.

Benefits include:

• 5 extra days of vacation

• Meal card for the maximum non-taxable amount

• Health Insurance

• Company mobile phone and laptop

• Flexible working hours