Engineering Manager

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Work Schedule: Onsite
- Salt Lake City, UT

Moog, Inc. is a global leader in motion control across land, sea air and space, pioneering advanced solutions to drive cutting edge innovation for our valued customers.

Our Space and Defense Group is the operating group with the longest heritage at Moog and serves ever-evolving markets with ongoing innovation that allows for constantly developing technology and excellent career opportunities.

Our Defense team in Salt Lake City, UT, is eagerly looking for an Engineering Manager to join their dynamic team. The Site Engineering Manager will lead a multidisciplinary team of supervisors, manufacturing/process engineers, and technicians supporting circuit card assembly (CCA) production and new product introductions at our Salt Lake City Circuit Card Assembly plant. As a key member of the site leadership team, you will drive technical excellence, process reliability, and on-time delivery while operating within a lean, continuous-improvement culture.

The role focuses on maximizing yield and throughput for SMT, through-hole, reflow/wave solder, AOI/Xray inspection, and test processes while maintaining strict quality and ESD controls / programs. The Site Engineering Manager will operate within a lean, continuous improvement environment, consistently driving toward 100% Quality and 100% Delivery.

This is an on-site, collaborative working environment that offers a 9/80 schedule to include every other Friday off! (Formal schedule is Mon
- Thurs, 7:00am - 4:00pm, every other Fri 7:00am - 3:00pm)

As our Engineering Manager, you will add incredible value to the team by holding responsibility for:

• Lead and develop site engineering organizations. Supervise, coach, and mentor supervisors, engineers, and technicians; manage staffing, performance reviews, and career development.

• Define, document, and optimize process flows for SMT, throughhole, conformal coating, soldering, inspection (AOI/Xray), and incircuit/functional test.

• Lead rootcause investigations and corrective actions for yield, reliability, and field failures using structured problem-solving (8D, DMAIC, 5 Whys).

• Implement statistical process control (SPC), capability studies (Cp/Cpk), DOE, and other data driven methods to improve process stability and reduce variation.

• Maintain and improve compliance to industry and customer standards (IPCA
  610, JSTD
  001, MIL/AS/ISO/AS9100 as applicable).

• Oversee equipment qualification, maintenance strategies, capital projects, and tooling/fixture design to meet production and quality goals.

• Collaborate cross functionally with Production, Quality, Supply Chain/Purchasing, Program Management, and Design Engineering to resolve issues and drive program success.

• Support customer engagements, including failure analysis, technical presentations, and proposals; act as engineering point of contact for customer escalations.

• Prepare and manage engineering budgets and project cost estimates; prioritize investments to align with site strategy.

• Ensure EHS and ESD program compliance across engineering activities.

To be considered for this Engineering Manager role, here's what you'll need to bring with you:

• Education & Experience:
  
  BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering or related field.

• 5+ years of Manufacturing/Engineering experience in Electronics/CCA assembly.

• Handson experience with SMT processes (pickandplace, reflow), throughhole soldering, AOI, Xray, and electronics test (ICT/flying probe/functional test).

• Demonstrated leadership experience managing engineering teams in a manufacturing environment.

• Strong problem solving and data analysis skills; experience with SPC, DOE, and process capability analysis.

• Familiarity with IPC standards (IPCA
  610, JSTD
  001) and ESD control practices.

• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work cross functionally with production, quality, purchasing, and customers.

• Commitment to lean/continuous improvement principles.

Competencies & Attributes

• Technical credibility with handson manufacturing experience.

• Results oriented, decisive, and able to balance shortterm production needs with longterm technical improvements.

• Strong mentoring and…