Production Engineering Manager [28902]

Note : Only candidates who are eligible to obtain a Secret level security clearance, or who currently hold an active Secret level security clearance or greater, will be considered.

As part of the eligibility requirements for obtaining a security clearance include being a U.S. Citizen, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

The Engineering Manager – Production, as part of the Expeditionary Leadership team, is responsible for the safety, quality, and oversight of the Production Engineering Team across the Expeditionary facilities.

This is a hands-on position and will be responsible for overseeing all technical activities of assigned projects and programs, including planning, scheduling, and managing personnel and production engineering work to ensure effective coordination and execution.

The Engineering Manager – Production must possess sufficient technical knowledge of their programs to identify problems, provide guidance to staff, and ensure the work product is completed on time and within budget and fulfills requirements.

Required to proactively lead improvement initiatives. This position is responsible for providing manufacturing engineering, testing, and production support to facilitate the successful development of new systems and products, or modifications and revisions to current systems and products.

The Engineering Manager – Production position offers a variety of engineering opportunities, including fixture design, analysis, 3D modeling, plant layout, line layout, process evaluation, machine programming, management, prototyping, and testing.

Position is 100% on-site.

Primary and Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise and develop a team of 5-10 engineers and designers across multiple sites.
• Completes annual performance review process for direct reports.
• Sets and achieves goals and assists direct reports in doing likewise.
• Contributes to team efforts by accomplishing related results in a cooperative and supportive manner, makes and keeps commitments, and expects the same of direct reports.
• Complies with Engineering Playbook, Make vs Buy, and other ISO Standards and works to optimize its content.
• Manages budgets, costs, and schedule inputs for design assignments, participates in technical reviews.
• Manage production support changes (ECR / ECO’s) and team priorities.
• Support proposal, technical write-ups, and provide quotes to Sales and BD.
• Participates in new product release processes and drives to the production floor.
• Demonstrates understanding of applicable MIL and commercial standards essential for equipment design and compliance (preferred).
• Hands-on building, fitting, and testing prototypes.
• Designs, develops, analyzes, documents, and supports the manufacture of products, systems, or subsystems both for Quality Testing and for Production Builds.
• Checks drawings and designs to ensure compliance with company and design specifications.
• Adheres to and trains to company revision control practices and ISO processes.
• Incorporates engineering requirements into planning and work.
• Directs technical activities to instruct production personnel in the building of the product.
• Implements new and / or improved methods, processes, and work instructions to lower costs and improve productivity and efficiencies.
• Implements and supports lean methodologies.
• Implements tools expected by leadership.
• Creates and modifies routings, BOMs, and work instructions.
• Interfaces internally with all facility associates, management, and staff.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates risk.
• Reviews engineering specifications and requirements and, under direction, develops best methods to support.
• Conducts independent research of new methods, technologies, and equipment and makes recommendations for implementation.
• Communicates clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer as required.
• Supports, communicates, reinforces, and defends the mission, values, and culture of the organization.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

Supervisory Responsibilities

Years of Experience / Level of Education

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility listed above satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Experience / Knowledge / Skills / Abilities