Lead Production Engineer (Internal)

Company Overview
Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company delivers affordable, high-performance space systems for exacting customers. At Millennium, you will be part of a close-knit team working on exciting technological problems. We work in an open environment where ideas are shared across all disciplines, and there are ample opportunities for advancement based on excellence. Superstars are welcome.

At Millennium, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. We're committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that's welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us. 

Job Summary
As a Lead Production Engineer, you will lead a team of Production Engineers supporting both manufacturing and supply chain. You will be responsible for leveraging design for manufacturability and continuous improvement to deliver space-grade hardware at high rate and low cost, without ever compromising personnel safety or product reliability. You will serve as the advocate for the team and the technical subject matter expert for the greater production and supply chain organization to ensure that they have the resources they need to succeed. A successful candidate for this role will demonstrate excellent communication skills, integrity, intellectual curiosity, empathy, technical capability, and a strong motivation to support the team.

This position's internal job code is Manufacturing Engineer. Our team is currently hiring for level 4.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for your Production Engineering scope.
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to each member of the team via 1:1s
  • Advocate for the team and cultivate an environment where they can be successful.
  • Manage communication within the team by providing context/rationale for higher level decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create and maintain work instructions, bills of materials, standard operating procedures, etc. in support of manufacturing and supply chain execution.
• Act as the liaison between design engineering, programs, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Leverage cross-functional relationships to help identify improvement opportunities, align on priorities, and execute initiatives to reduce lead time, labor hours, etc. both within internal and external manufacturing processes.
• Identify, implement, and qualify manufacturing equipment and processes in support of high reliability production that enables our throughput targets
• Partner with peer engineering teams to implement design changes in response to manufacturing and supply chain issues, customer challenges, new vehicle architectures, and departmental standardization initiatives.
• Establish and increase the efficiency of business processes to maximize output, limit burden, and enable products to rapidly transition from engineering development to high-rate production.
• Leverage data to establish, monitor, and improve manufacturing and supply chain metrics enveloping safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for training requirements and capability expansion throughout manufacturing and supply chain.
• Coordinate and implement new engineering principles, theories, advanced technologies, and concepts.
• Enable manufacturing and supply chain autonomy by challenging requirements, simplifying work processes, and automating actions.
• Effectively address tactical, day to day issues by troubleshooting and identifying ultimate root cause, then implement permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline (ABET accreditation required).
• 5+ years’ experience in structures/propulsion manufacturing engineering in Aerospace, Automotive, or Commercial industries.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret engineering drawings, technical manuals and policies and recommend changes to procedures.
• Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing, electromechanical assembly, propulsion production, mechanisms fabrication, or structures build.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated technical problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to aggregate, visualize, and analyze data to make informed decisions (i.e. SQL, Excel, PowerBI, etc.)
• Competent with CAD software (SolidWorks preferred)
• Ability to effectively communicate with engineering, production, and leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in an Engineering discipline (ABET accreditation required).
• Thorough understanding of root cause analysis and related analytical methodology (Five Whys, Fishbone/Ishikawa Analysis, 8D, etc.).
• Understands and utilizes theories, principles, and practices of engineering and project management methods.
• Aerospace and/or DOD Experience.
• Capital project management experience.
• Background in Lean Manufacturing/Process Improvement
• Functional knowledge of welding principles and NDT techniques for material evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to scale manufacturing rate capability.

Please note that the salary information shown below is a general guideline only of what is reasonably expected to be paid for the position. Salaries are based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay-Range

• Level 4: $117,300 - $172,500 

Benefits and Perks
Millennium Space Systems offers a very competitive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, and 401k plan.

Before applying, please note:
Millennium is DDTC-registered, ITAR-compliant Company. This position is located at a facility that requires special access. Applicants MUST be U.S. citizens and eligible for a security clearance. Additionally, applicants must be willing to apply for and maintain a security clearance. We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage veterans, disabled veterans and disabled individuals to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified.

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