Manager, Manufacturing Engineer
L3Harris Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Fort Wayne • United States
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About the role
- Oversee aspects of Manufacturing Engineering, process development, and production of space payloads
- Lead and direct experienced professionals
- Communicate within and outside of organization to explain and influence changes to policies, practices, or approaches
- Make significant improvements in processes, systems, or products
- Establish short-term operational plans with measurable contributions to function or business area results
- Lead tactical execution of business plans for manufacturing focused on optimizing product costs, cycle times, and product quality throughout the manufacturing process
- Provide technical support on integration plans, processes, tools, and product design manufacturability assessments through collaboration with hardware engineering and business leaders
- Manage, develop, and grow a team of Manufacturing Engineers to meet business objectives
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and root cause analyses focused on driving LEAN processes and quality enhancements
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years prior related experience
- Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience
- In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience
- Ability to obtain a security clearance
- Previous management or supervisory experience
- Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills
- Experience with the integration and test of space electro-optical payloads for DoD, NASA, or other government applications
- Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing Principles such as Mistake proofing, 3P, 5S+1, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Root Cause Analysis, Gemba, Pull-Flow, etc.
- Working knowledge of space industry production standards such as J-STD-001, IPC, and NASA, and other workmanship specifications.
- Experience scaling production operations from low volume to moderate volumes with a focus on flow and reducing manual processes.
- Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems, Planning, and Scheduling tools, and managing material flow through factory operations.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deploy process standards to achieve operational excellence in an environmental test operation.
- Active government secret security clearance.
- Experience working in a cleanroom environment.
- Direct experience with deploying lean manufacturing strategies and techniques.
- Excellent analytical problem-solving skills and capability.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Experience with ESD safeguards and contamination control.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, technical writing, MS Project and/or MS SharePoint.
Benefits
- health insurance
- retirement plans
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Manufacturing Engineeringprocess developmentLEAN processesRoot Cause AnalysisValue Stream MappingManufacturing Execution Systemstechnical writingSix Sigmaproduction standardsintegration and test of space electro-optical payloads
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationpresentationcollaborationanalytical problem-solvingteam developmentinfluencingorganizational planningcontinuous improvementtactical execution
Certifications
Bachelor’s DegreeGraduate Degreesecurity clearance