Product Manufacturing Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-08-05

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PW100: East Hartford 400 Main Street, East Hartford, CT, 06118 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Pratt & Whitney is working to once again transforming the future of flight—designing, building, and servicing engines unlike any the world has ever seen. And because transformation begins from within, we’re seeking the people to drive it. So, calling all curious. 

Come ready to explore and you’ll find a place where your talent takes flight—beyond the borders of title, a country, or your comfort zone. Bring your passion and commitment and we’ll welcome you into a tight-knit team that takes our mission personally. Channel your drive to make a difference into shaping an organization and an industry that’s evolving fast to the future.

Innovation through diversity of thought. At Pratt & Whitney, we believe diversity of thought enables creativity, innovation, and a foundation for inclusion. By fostering an inclusive culture, we accept a shared accountability and responsibility to recognize, sponsor, coach, hire and promote talent equally. We welcome our employees to be their whole - best - selves at work because trust, respect, and integrity, are a part of our DNA.

At Pratt & Whitney, the difference you make is on display every day. Just look up. Are you ready to go beyond?

What You Will Do:

Core Manufacturing Engineering in the Operational Excellence organization is hiring a Product Manufacturing Engineer to support the analysis for manufacturing readiness for Pratt & Whitney’s 6th Generation war fighter propulsion system.

The selected candidate will be integrated with the Operations, Quality, and Engineering teams and will act as the liaison between engineering, program, and operations. Using Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) standard work, this employee will be identifying and mitigating manufacturing and operational risk of various configurations and technology insertion projects and their associated risks.

The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work in a high technology, advanced program environment incorporating the latest manufacturing readiness assessment tools. The ideal candidate will be an experience, proactive, and goal oriented professional to lead MRL execution on critical parts.  This resource will have a key role in refining and improving MRL standard work as it applies to early phase programs.

Responsibilities:

• With specific parts ownership, this role will drive producibility into the design process, ensure source selection includes considerations for manufacturing such as, quality, cost and delivery performance
• Leverage the lessons learned from production programs to ensure that development parts are incorporating those to help with improved quality, cost and delivery signatures
• Provide focused & effective leadership in the advancement of MRL elements to drive manufacturing risk identification and mitigation to achieve superior quality performance
• As a key member of the Integrated Product Team (IPT), significant interaction with product designers, tool designers, quality assurance, systems designers, and other stakeholders is required
• The discipline and follow-through to fully document problem statements, observations, conclusions, calculations and recommendations
• Work with senior management:
• Support the project pipeline process to select, prioritize and scope projects to business objectives, integrated with other continuous improvement activities and CORE initiatives.
• Schedule and facilitate periodic project reviews and ensure validation of MRL gate advancements. Use effective scorecards and metrics to ensure progress.
• Represent the organization in various forums related to MRL execution.
• Communicate lessons learned to:
• Product development/engineering to enable implementation of design for variation (DFV) and robust design methods (DFSS).
• Other operational organizations for read across implementation.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (manufacturing, industrial, mechanical) or related technical field
• 7+ years of experience in operations and manufacturing engineering, 5+ years advanced degree
• Demonstrated technical proficiency in complex manufacturing activities
• Must be a U.S. Citizen, US citizenship is required due to government contracts
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

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