Manufacturing Engineering Manager 2

About This Role

Lead a team of manufacturing engineers to convert product designs into detailed assembly instructions, ensuring compliance with regulations and specifications. Provide technical guidance, resolve quality issues, and drive continuous improvement on the production floor.

Responsibilities

• Create new and modify existing assembly/manufacturing instructions with necessary operations to support build sequence, including specifications/quality requirements and maintaining a bill of material (BOM)
• Provide guidance to Design Engineering during drawing reviews regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques; and to identify any manufacturability challenges or changes required ahead of drawing release
• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations and engineering specifications
• Drive the team to support the production floor in a liaison role
• Investigate and initiate corrective action to ensure product quality
• Resolve quality issues that arise during the build process to ensure all parts conform to the design configuration
• Develop tooling/fixtures to conduct the operations steps and to serve as manufacturing aids for technicians
• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex and difficult problems

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of engineering experience and 2 years of leadership experience, or a master's degree with 3 years of engineering experience and 2 years of leadership experience
• Ability to interface/communicate with multiple levels of leadership, clients, and vendors
• Active (DoD) Secret security clearance or higher
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable period of time

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of engineering experience and 2 years of leadership experience, or a master's degree with 3 years of engineering experience and 2 years of leadership experience.
• 5 years of engineering experience and 2 years of leadership experience (or Master's with 3 years engineering experience and 2 years leadership experience)

Nice to Have

• STEM Degree (Science, Technical, Engineering or Mathematical)
• Understanding of Engineering, Tooling, Production, Program Management and GSC Subcontracts Processes
• Experienced in dynamic environments where here may be schedule changes, design changes and validation failures
• Experience with Earned Value Management and CAM
• Complete understanding of aircraft operations and maintenance as well as a thorough knowledge of aircraft scheduling
• Experience working hands-on in a production assembly line environment
• Experience providing innovative techniques focused on improving product designs and tooling assemblies or equipment
• Complex assembly or composite experience and process knowledge

Benefits