Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Job Title:

Manufacturing Engineering Manager Job Category:
Engineering Time Type:
Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
None Employee Type:
Regular Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%
Type of Travel:
Continental US*
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* The Opportunity:

The Manufacturing Engineering Manager for the Orlando operations team will oversee the manufacturing engineering team responsible to develop and maintain production processes for space qualified laser-based electro-optical subsystems. Our team is responsible for delivering high-quality products on time, while controlling costs and meeting program objectives.

As a key member of our leadership team, you will directly impact our business performance by ensuring efficient, high-quality production operations who can balance multiple priorities, foster team collaboration, cultivate a high-performance culture and continuously improve our production processes. Your expertise and decision-making will be instrumental in driving our company's success.

This position requires expertise in aerospace engineering, manufacturing processes, and effective project management to deliver high-quality spacecraft subsystems efficiently and cost-effectively.

Responsibilities:

Provide leadership and direction in the development of strategic initiatives

Implement process capability monitoring and improvement, to include the use of statistical process control

Provide direction in problem solving, product or process characterization, process efficiency improvements and continuous improvement activities

Drive optimization of products for improved manufacturability, cycle time and cost reductions

Ensure Design for Manufacturing (DFM) is incorporated into future products

Work with engineering to negotiate product specifications and acceptance criteria

Responsible for all aspects of the manufacturing engineering budgets, schedules and resource planning

Serve as manufacturing and producibility authority

Apply engineering skills to optimize value stream and resolve constraints

Enhance product producibility through cross-functional collaboration

Create formal manufacturing documentation from design requirements

Drive data-driven process improvements and innovative solutions

Support new product introductions and accelerate time to market

Provide technical input on engineering designs and changes to improve cost, efficiency, and quality

Drive and support AS9100 initiatives and quality objectives

Qualifications:

Required:

U.S. Citizen Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.

Minimum 10 years of experience managing complex DOD production projects with prior leadership experience in operations, engineering, manufacturing, program management or similar.

Expert in writing technical specifications or manufacturing work instructions and reading engineering drawings and understanding GD&T.Expert in electro-optical design for manufacturability

Proven experience leading a team of highly skilled manufacturing engineers

Developed manufacturing labor and material proposals in compliance to DFAR regulations

Ability to lead all team members though the process of solving manufacturing engineering issues

Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems for assembly and test Proven ability to prepare and present Manufacturing & Test Readiness Reviews Performed capacity planning for product lines

Thorough understanding of high volume electro-optical manufacturing and test concepts including the proven ability to effectively introduce improvement changes to the production and test line Knowledgeable in AS9100

Proven technical acumen in the manufacture, test and integration of complex product technologies and systems

Proven experience with Lean,…