Machining Engineering Leader

Pursuit Aerospace Engineering Manager

As a global manufacturer of complex aircraft engine components, Pursuit Aerospace is founded on a commitment to relentless, continuous, operational improvement and extraordinary customer service. We pride ourselves on competitive cost structure, exceptional on-time delivery, and industry-leading quality.

The Pursuit family of companies has cultivated long-term relationships with our customers around the world through respect, teamwork, technology, and trust. We are driven to develop industry leading process innovations and manufacturing techniques on behalf of our customers. Our exceptional quality is driven by a deep investment in and the daily practice of continually improving our people, processes, and products.

The Engineering Manager provides expert judgment, analysis and direction to the Engineering technical team for the development and implementation of processes required for the successful and cost-effective manufacture of technical products that meet all customer technical and quality requirements. The Engineering Manager provides the required oversight, input and direction to assure that manufacturing process directions, tooling concepts and designs meet or exceed all internal program goals (ease of manufacture, cost effective manufacturing and profitability) as well as all customer requirements (quality and delivery).

• Provide the required direction and leadership to the team as necessary in order to create, develop and perfect maintenance manufacturing processes which are cost effective and conducive to ease of manufacture.
• Review and approve machining manufacturing processes as required.
• Assure that all machining manufacturing processes and tooling will produce a technical product which meets all customer requirements (quality and delivery) as well as internal goals (ease of manufacture and profitability).
• Full responsibility for all new products' technical requirements/issues including concurrent engineering interface with the customer to facilitate design/process changes which aid producibility and lower product cost.
• Conduct process improvements through leading Kaizen projects, design of experiments, and design review events to improve machining manufacturing process efficiency, reduce cost, improve profitability and reduce product lead/cycle time.
• Research, develop and execute, with the team, the plans required to meet business metric cost requirements to maximize product profitability.
• Resolves highly complex technical issues and conducts research as required.
• Recommends alterations to product development and design (concurrent engineering) to improve quality of products and/or procedures for producibility.
• Investigate and recommend machine tool and equipment needs to accomplish or improve the required machining manufacturing process capabilities or capacity.
• Identify related machining processing and manufacturing problems and identify/initiate corrective actions as required. Provide technical direction and leadership in recommending changes in design, specifications, drawings and procedures that will eliminate manufacturing problems, improve producibility and productivity, or reduce scrap/rework related cost and/or lead-time.
• Ensure the timely review of Non-conforming material activity is completed.
• Provide technical support to the Project Managers to manage the New product Projects.
• Ensure all phases of the New Product Integration Process are completed and all approvals are secured as applicable for all development products.
• Visit supplier plants as required to assure that the supplier manufacturing process meets or exceeds all company and customer requirements (delivery and quality). Assure that the supplier manufacturing process will produce technical product in the required quantity and in accordance with the product delivery schedule.
• Oversee and lead product/key characteristic audits as required by our customer.
• Assist in shop floor personnel training as applicable and deemed necessary.
• Develop market awareness and promote company visibility efforts.
• Must support all EH&S (Environmental, Health & Safety)…