Standard Job DescriptionYou will be the Manufacturing Engineer Associate Manager for the Air Dominance team, overseeing a group of three-to-four Manufacturing Engineers across multiple sites. Our team ensures quality, cost, and schedule goals are met by investigating, communicating, and resolving design, producibility, and assembly challenges.
What You Will Be DoingAs the Manufacturing Engineer Associate Manager, you will lead Make/Buy studies, spearhead cross-functional projects, and tailor solutions to each customer's variant requirements. You will also oversee non-recurring engineering efforts during product start-up, including affordability and producibility assessments, tooling and fixture design, machine-automation programming, and the configuration of manufacturing bills of materials for optimal manufacturability.
Your responsibilities will include- Leading a team of Manufacturing Engineers to investigate and resolve design, producibility, and assembly challenges.
- Conducting Make/Buy analyses and driving cross-functional projects that meet variant-specific requirements.
- Managing non-recurring engineering (NRE) activities during product start-up, including cost-reduction and producibility assessments.
- Designing tooling, fixtures, and automation programs to support new product introductions.
- Configuring manufacturing bills of materials (BOMs) for optimal manufacturability.
- Utilizing Manufacturing Readiness Assessment (MRA) tools to evaluate process readiness, develop corrective plans, and ensure successful product launches.
Basic Qualifications- B.S. in relative Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Materials, Manufacturing, Industrial, etc)
- Extensive technical knowledge and experience in the areas of missile manufacturing, process development, and testing
- Experience with manufacturing tooling design and fabrication
- Hands on experience in the design of manufacturing processes, work Instructions, equipment installation, assembly and material handling
- Leading recurring and non-recurring Manufacturing Engineering activities and personnel to meet technical schedule and cost commitments
- Drive internal initiatives such as Process Improvements, Lean, and ManufacturingTechnology enhancements and by improving the business processes used to execute Recurring and Non-recurring support
- Strong ability in written and verbal technical communication skills. The candidate must be able to communicate effectively across multiple levels of the business and across all disciplines (e.g. technical and non-technical staff, external customers, program management)-The successful candidate will also possess excellent problem solving and analytical skills in one or more of the following disciplines - mechanical engineering, optical engineering, electrical engineering, metrology engineering, and/or material science - and be able to adapt those skills in support of manufacturing within the programs supported
- Must have the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance
- Extensive Change Board experience
- Working and in-depth knowledge of SAP
- Ability to manage manpower and work scope across multiple manufacturing sites
Desired SkillsDemonstrated ability to exercise business acumen with appropriate capital and facility planning, justification and execution
- Understanding and wide application of complex Electro-mechanical/Optical Final Assembly, Integration and Test methods
- Experience in representing Operations teams for a wide range of difficult technical issues associated with specific projects
- Experience in effective team leadership in planning and execution of Process Improvements and technical solutions
- Experience in Manufacturing & Test Statement of Work and generation of Proposal Basis of Estimate input
- Highly skilled at interpretation of Engineering specifications and the translation into effective Work Instructions
- Experience in effective collaboration with engineering to develop assembly design concepts and specification requirements
- Excellent Team facilitation skills and effective use of Lean Six-Sigma tools
- The candidate will interface with Program engineers to ensure producibility and drive cost savings opportunities (affordability)
- Breadth in skills and/or experience across multiple disciplines of optical assembly, mechanical assembly, electrical assembly and related processes is strongly desired
- M.S. in Engineering
- CAM and MRB Experience
- Knowledge of automation and cost reduction techniques
Pay InformationFull-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
