Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Sheet Metal, Special Projects
Hadrian
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Oversee drawing reviews, capital expenditure planning, and automation feedback for Sheet Metal
- Serve as Lead Engineer responsible for scoping, designing, planning, and providing automation feedback for sheet metal across all material types and configurations
- Rapidly review drawings for manufacturability and advise automation team on sheet metal best practices
- Assist in building new factories for existing production scope and contribute to manufacturing processes of new products where sheet metal is designed-in
- Recruit and lead 1-2 Sheet Metal MEs and work with Automation and Factories Leadership teams to design and ship sheet metal production and inspection lines
- Analyse customer drawings and current state of production to design, build, and guide automation of sheet metal DFM, production, and inspection lines
- Contribute to factories-as-a-service efforts and deliver cost/schedule/solutions with customers and Federal team
- Own CapEx planning, vendor selection, and costing
Requirements
- Senior Manager or above level with deep expertise in Sheet Metal production and inspection
- Able to travel to assess factories 40% of the time
- Capable of leading 1-2 sheet metal MEs
- Able to analyse DFM, and design/plan production and inspection lines for sheet metal
- Prior experience standing up new sheet metal lines in Aerospace, Automotive, or other domains
- Ability to move quickly and make risk-adjusted decisions
- ITAR requirement: must be 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 required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
- Software or automation experience is helpful but not required