Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Harnessing - Millennium Space Systems

Job Summary

As a Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, you will inspire, develop, coordinate, support, and lead a team of Manufacturing Engineers supporting both manufacturing and supply chain. You will be responsible for leveraging design for manufacturability and continuous improvement to deliver space-grade harnessing hardware at high rate and low cost, without ever compromising personnel safety or product reliability. You will serve as the advocate for your team and the technical subject matter expert for the greater production and supply chain organization to ensure that they have the resources they need to succeed.

You will develop and sustain a vision for growth and development of both the members of your team and the capabilities of the manufacturing and supply chain department. A successful candidate for this role will demonstrate integrity, intellectual curiosity, empathy, technical capability, and a strong motivation to support their team.

• Serve as the primary point of support for the Manufacturing Engineering team
• Act as the liaison between design engineering, programs, manufacturing, and supply chain
• Leverage cross-functional relationships to help identify improvement opportunities, align on priorities, and execute initiatives to reduce lead time, labor hours, etc., both within internal and external manufacturing processes
• Leverage data to establish, monitor, and improve manufacturing and supply chain metrics enveloping safety, quality, delivery, and cost
• Enable manufacturing and supply chain autonomy by challenging requirements, simplifying work processes, and automating actions
• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for training requirements and capability expansion throughout manufacturing and supply chain
• Troubleshoot and identify ultimate root cause of issues in manufacturing and supply chain processes, then implement permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence
• Partner with peer engineering teams to implement design changes in response to manufacturing and supply chain issues, customer challenges, new vehicle architectures, and departmental standardization initiatives

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• Candidates must have at least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross functional project/program management, or formal manager experience) OR have completed the Boeing internal course “Exploring Leadership”
• 3+ years in manufacturing and/or supply chain
• Experience creating and delivering presentations to management
• Demonstrated ability to aggregate, visualize, and analyze data to make informed decisions (i.e. SQL, Excel, Power
  
  BI, etc.)
• Competent with CAD software (Solidworks/Altium preferred)
• This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship. A final U.S. clearance Post Start is required

• Experience in the aerospace industry
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with peers
• 5+ years in manufacturing and/or supply chain
• 5+ years in engineering
• 2+ years of experience leading a team of engineers
• Familiarity with harnesses design on vehicles, products, and on non-flight hardware
• Demonstrated ability to scale manufacturing rate capability

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

At Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. Millennium Space Systems also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance,…