Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: None

Type of Travel: None

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The Opportunity:

• The Engineering Manager for the Orlando operations team will oversee the manufacturing engineering team responsible to develop and maintain production processes and productionize space qualified laser-based electro-optical subsystems. Our team is responsible for delivering high-quality products on time, while controlling costs and meeting program objectives. 
• As a key member of our leadership team, you will directly impact our business performance by ensuring efficient, high-quality production operations who can balance multiple priorities, foster team collaboration, cultivate a high-performance culture and continuously improve our production processes. Your expertise and decision-making will be instrumental in driving our company's success.
• This position requires expertise in aerospace engineering, manufacturing processes, and effective project management to deliver high-quality spacecraft subsystems efficiently and cost-effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and direction in the development of strategic initiatives
• Implement process capability monitoring and improvement, to include the use of statistical process control
• Provide direction in problem solving, product or process characterization, process efficiency improvements and continuous improvement activities
• Drive optimization of products for improved manufacturability, cycle time and cost reductions
• Ensure Design for Manufacturing (DFM) is incorporated into future products
• Work with engineering to negotiate product specifications and acceptance criteria
• Responsible for all aspects of the manufacturing engineering budgets, schedules and resource planning
• Serve as manufacturing and producibility authority
• Apply engineering skills to optimize value stream and resolve constraints
• Ensuring alignment between design and production
• Recommend changes to improve cost, efficiency, and quality
• Enhance product producibility through cross-functional collaboration
• Create formal manufacturing documentation from design requirements
• Drive data-driven process improvements and innovative solutions
• Support new product introductions and accelerate time to market
• Provide technical input on engineering designs and changes
• Drive and support AS9100 initiatives and quality objectives

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Bachelor's in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advance Degree in a related field and a minimum of 10 years' experience.
• 5 years or more of recent management experience leading a moderate size organization consisting of engineering, manufacturing and/or technical personnel.
• Minimum 10 years of experience managing complex DOD production projects with prior leadership experience in operations, engineering, manufacturing, program management or similar.
• Expert in writing technical specifications or manufacturing work instructions.
• Expert in reading engineering drawings and understanding GD&T.
• Expert in electro-optical design for manufacturability
• Proven experience leading a team of highly skilled manufacturing engineers
• Developed manufacturing labor and material proposals in compliance to DFAR regulations
• Ability to lead all team members though the process of solving manufacturing engineering issues
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems for assembly and test
• Proven ability to prepare and present Manufacturing & Test Readiness Reviews
• Performed capacity planning for product lines
• Thorough understanding of high volume electro-optical manufacturing and test concepts including the proven ability to effectively introduce improvement changes to the production and test line
• Knowledgeable in AS9100
• Proven technical acumen in the manufacture, test and integration of complex product technologies and systems
• Proven experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies
• Experience in the development of new product from concept to production
• Well versed in utilizing all Microsoft software applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Oversee comprehensive workforce management, including manpower planning, training, strategic hiring, professional development programs and performance evaluations.
• Corrective Action Planning.<