Manufacturing, Integration & Test Engineering Manager

About ITT:

At ITT, we have a clear purpose as an organization – to provide our customers with cutting-edge solutions to help solve their most critical needs across key global end markets. Our continuous improvement mindset drives our commitment to evolving our capabilities as a multi-industrial technology, manufacturing and engineering leader. With a strong global footprint of more than 100 facilities, we are well positioned to solve critical challenges for our customers around the world. Our locations include manufacturing facilities and global service capabilities in 35 countries. Through these worldwide operations and building on our heritage of innovation, our approximately ~11,000 team members partner with our customers to deliver enduring solutions that make a lasting difference and help the world move forward. ITT is headquartered in Stamford, CT, with sales in approximately 125 countries. The company generated 2024 revenues of $3.6 billion. 

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• Connect and Control Technologies: (Revenue of $0.8B; headcount of ~ 3,800; operates in 10 countries) manufactures harsh-environment connector solutions, critical energy absorption, flow control components, and composite materials for the aerospace and defense, general industrial, medical, and energy markets.

Position Summary

As the Manufacturing, Integration & Test Engineering Manager. at ITT Inc.'s Valencia location, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the efficient operation and continuous improvement of the aerospace business. You will lead a team of professionals engaged in test equipment design, test engineering, and manufacturing engineering to ensure our products meet bother customer and internal functional & performance, reliability and quality requirements. Collaboration with various stakeholders, including other ITT sites especially our production facility in Nogales, Mexico, will be essential to achieve the organization's goals.

Essential Responsibilities

• Leadership: Provide effective leadership to the Manufacturing, Integration & Test Engineering group, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
• Environmental & Development Test Lab: Manage the laboratory space, equipment and all incoming development & environmental qualification LRU assets. Tear down, repair and RCCA of failed units.
• Ensure that customers (internal and external) have a premium experience when dealing with ITT testing departments, with an effective and timely submission of results, and a proactive interaction with the relevant stakeholders, to provide technical solutions and proposals.
• Provide the team with the needed tools and processes to report the most relevant metrics and KPI to ensure a good tracking of the department performance.
• Support maintenance programs and activities, to ensure the highest level of safety and efficiency of our machines.
• Test Equipment Design: Oversee the design and development of test equipment for aerospace products, ensuring they meet performance and reliability standards.
• Test Engineering: Manage the test engineering process, including the design and execution of testing procedures, data analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Manufacturing Engineering: Lead the manufacturing engineering team in DFx reviews, optimization of production processes, maintaining product quality and helping drive resolution to any issue with on-time shipment of our various product lines.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other ITT sites and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless collaboration, knowledge sharing, and alignment on engineering strategies.
• Performance Metrics: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the performance of engineering processes, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing corrective actions.
• Continuous Improvement: Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product r