Directed Energy Sr Operations Engineering Manager

Regular

The successful candidate will lead cross-functional teams, establish operational strategies, improve manufacturing readiness, and drive continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle. This position will work closely with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, program management, field operations, and customers to ensure products meet operational, technical, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.

• Lead operations engineering strategy and execution across the complete product lifecycle.
• Develop and implement processes that support new product introduction, production ramp-up, sustainment, upgrades, and end-of-life activities.
• Partner with design engineering to ensure products are designed for manufacturability, assembly, test, inspection, service, and cost effectiveness.
• Establish product and manufacturing readiness criteria, metrics, and review processes.
• Lead design-for-manufacturability and design-for-assembly reviews.
• Develop manufacturing processes, work instructions, tooling, fixtures, test equipment, and production methods.
• Support product development from early concepts and prototype builds through qualification, production release, and full-rate production.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts to resolve technical, manufacturing, quality, and operational issues.
• Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions related to production, field performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Develop strategies to improve production capacity, throughput, yield, quality, and overall equipment effectiveness.
• Collaborate with supply chain and suppliers to improve component availability, manufacturability, cost, quality, and lead times.
• Support supplier qualification, process validation, production part approval, and supplier performance improvement.
• Establish and maintain manufacturing bills of material, routings, process specifications, and configuration-controlled documentation.
• Ensure manufacturing and operations engineering changes are properly evaluated, documented, approved, and implemented.
• Lead production readiness reviews, manufacturing design reviews, technical interchange meetings, and lifecycle planning activities.
• Support test development, production acceptance testing, inspection planning, and equipment qualification.
• Develop and track lifecycle metrics, including cost, quality, schedule, yield, defects, escapes, rework, reliability, and service performance.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement across products, programs, and manufacturing sites.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks throughout the product lifecycle.
• Support product configuration management, change control, obsolescence management, and component lifecycle planning.
• Partner with field service and sustainment teams to improve maintainability, repair processes, technical documentation, and product support.
• Establish end-of-life plans, including last-time buys, replacement components, repair strategies, and transition requirements.
• Mentor and develop operations engineers and technical personnel.
• Manage priorities, resources, budgets, schedules, and performance objectives for the operations engineering organization.
• Communicate program status, risks, recommendations, and operational performance to senior leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5-10 years of experience in operations engineering, manufacturing engineering, product lifecycle management, or a related field.
• 5-10 years of experience leading engineering or operations teams.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the…