Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Job Summary:

Mercury Systems is seeking the world’s best and brightest engineer to provide support as part of the manufacturing engineering team for the mission systems displays group, a leading provider of mission-critical avionics and display system solutions. The principal manufacturing engineer works on behalf of Mercury Systems operations organization to provide technical engineering support for the production floor, functional test department, PCBA repair, and test departments. Assist mechanical, electrical, and software engineering departments in supporting new product introduction (NPI).

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Supporting prototype and NPI builds
• Participate in design and production readiness reviews
• Technical writing to include work instructions, functional test procedures, standard operating procedures, change impact analyses, and other documentation
• Providing device failure validation, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation
• Creating Engineering Change Notices (ECN) as required
• Developing and building engineering test fixtures used for testing LCDs, CCAs, cameras, and other electronic and mechanical assemblies
• Assisting supervisors and engineering departments with process development and improvement
• Analyzing production efficiency data, interpret results, and directing improvement initiatives
• Training production floor on the use of manufacturing equipment
• Evaluating and implementing new equipment
• Providing labor time standards
• Assisting production to meet daily production goals
• Reviewing mechanical drawings, manufacturing Bills of Materials (BOM), PCBA schematics, technical data sheets (electrical, mechanical, and optical components along with chemicals and other data sheets as required) and other technical documents
• Troubleshooting mechanical fitment and tolerance issues
• Troubleshooting and repairing CCAs down to component level
• Reviewing and troubleshooting terminal readouts for electronic assemblies
• Programming of automated manufacturing equipment (i.e., functional test fixtures, BGA rework machines, CCA X-ray equipment, and environmental test equipment)
• Assisting quality with reviewing mechanical dimensions, electrical component placement, cable manufacturing, CCA conformal coating, optical performance, and other parameters

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree, preferably in manufacturing, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or industrial Engineering

• Typically, requires a minimum of 6 -10 years' experience related to production manufacturing in Aerospace & Defense, Medical Device, Semiconductor industries

• Statistical Process Control (SPC) experience
• Experience with CAD and mechanical drawings 
• Experience with heat transfer and thermal fluids in electronic assemblies 
• Working knowledge of Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing methodology 
• This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aerospace or defense industry experience 
• CCA troubleshooting using multimeters, oscilloscopes, and board schematics 
• CCA inspection and solder training including IPC-A-610, and J-STD-001 

"This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government."

Qualifications Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,30