Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Beyond Roads: The Future is Electric Pivotal's BlackFly and Helix herald a new era of aviation. 
The dream of futurists has always been a flying vehicle capable of efficiently moving passengers from A to B.  Pivotal is realizing this dream in the world’s first ultralight all-electric fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles: BlackFly and Helix. BlackFly and Helix are stories of technical evolution and vision. Our vehicles are intended to liberate us from the restrictions of two-dimensional road travel by opening up a new world of unfeathered three-dimensional flight. People will go places they never thought possible.
Pivotal is an aviation company based in Palo Alto, CA. Our team shares a vision of a revolutionary form of personal transportation. We build pioneering technology in electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.  We’re growing fast and invite you to join our amazing team.
As a Manufacturing Engineering Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing the development and implementation of manufacturing processes and tooling essential for our production. You will be responsible for ensuring that these processes and tools guarantee product functionality, quality, and cost efficiency. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving continuous improvement and innovation within our manufacturing engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Team Development: Coaching, mentoring, and managing talent and performance. Develop and/or hire to create a world class manufacturing engineering team that possessing the knowledge, skills and abilities develop, implement and qualify highly efficient and capable manufacturing processes for Pivotal aircraft and all supporting subsystems and non flight systems
• Management and Leadership: Set and achieve goals that stretch and develop the team while supporting the organization’s delivery of business success. Manage the functional strategy, periodic goals (output, quality levels, project milestones) and the daily activities, task allocation while delivering ongoing feedback
• Manufacturing Process Management: Develop and optimize manufacturing processes to meet capacity, touch labor and cost objectives. Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices whether in development or in continuous improvement mode
• Engineering & Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with our engineering, supply chain and quality teams to review, evaluate, and implement engineering changes with a focus on Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Cost (DFC) principles
• Problem Solving: Use your experience to deliver effective solutions to manufacturing challenges that may arise during the industrialization phase of  process development
• CAD Expertise: Good knowledge of CAD packages, with a preference for CATIA/3DX, to support design modifications and improvements
• Organization and Documentation: Maintain thorough and organized documentation of processes, changes, and performance metrics

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering (mechanical, manufacturing, aerospace, aeronautical, industrial, or equivalent)
• Is data-driven and adept at business discussions and skilled with quantitative tools such as Process Capability modeling and make / buy decision models. Is able to lead participatory discussions allowing a group to arrive at best possible solutions
• 5+ years of experience combined production environments such as aircraft, automotive, marine, electronics-manufacturing, or related industries
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in additive manufacturing, ideally composite structures, including part fabrication, machining, structural assembly, and required steps such as NDT
• Adept with lean principles and six sigma principles: The ideal candidate will be proficient in lean, volume ramp up, New Product Introduction processes, and cost reduction and able to teach these principles to others. Certifications such as 6sBB or L6sBB are highly desirable
• Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment (e.g. UL, FAA, FDA)
• Experience in electromechanical product manufacturing that including digital and/or power electronics, wire/cable harnessing and electronics enclosures
• Supervisory experience of diverse groups including recent college graduate engineers, accomplished technicians and expert engineers specialized fields
• Knowledge of Product Lifecycle principles, New Product Introduction Best Practices and a working familiarity at least some of the commercial tools used in its practice
• Proficiency with relevant CAD packages, such as CATIA (preferred), SolidWorks, or Pro/ENGINEER
• Strong organization and communication skills including planning, writing, presenting, and speaking / delivering instruction to groups

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