Staff Manufacturing Engineer

How You'll Fulfill Your Mission

• Own and drive design for manufacturability (DFM) of assemblies and/or subassemblies from design release through ATP Test—lay out the build flow to ensure an efficient, high-quality product flow capable of scaling in time sensitive environments.
• Represent the manufacturing organization in cross-functional teams to down-select concepts that are being evaluated for their feasibility.
• Generate mBOMs, CONOPS, build schedule, and consistently maintain throughout the development process.
• Create work instructions, specifications, and best practices across multiple high-fidelity processes. Help standardize processes across the manufacturing team.
• Implement new manufacturing capabilities and think creatively to resolve and challenge conflicting requirements.
• Ability to work with and train technicians in a hands-on hardware environment, writing detailed work instructions and process plans.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of new capital equipment for establishing expanded production processes.
• Responsible for Issue Management, tracking failure modes, addressing root cause, and verifying closure of issues from assigned owners.
• Assist with design, analysis, and integration of sub-assemblies to resolve off-nominal non-conformance and develop sustainable repair procedures.
• Develop production testing processes and requirements for high pressure gas systems to support high rate production testing targets.
• Adapt to evolving design and production challenges.

Why We Value You

• 5+ years of relevant experience, including experience leading electrical and/or mechanical engineering designs from inception to production
• Expertise in design for manufacturability and design for assembly, successfully taking products through development, testing, and production
• Familiarity with spacecraft and/or launch vehicle design and test obtained through educational training and/or on the-job experience in a related field
• Experience with capacity modeling, process mapping and fault analysis
• Demonstrated experience with CAD and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) experience
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for the team's spirit of innovation and mission of improving manufacturing for spacecraft and launch vehicles
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Ability to succinctly present recommendations to stakeholders, the customer, and leadership
• Ability to make appropriate assumptions and perform trade studies using first principles and engineering fundamentals to create rationale for clear recommendations
• Experience prioritizing and executing tasks in a high-pressure environment with ongoing drive for continuous improvement in all aspects of work
• Willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed
• Will sometimes be working directly with the hardware on the floor and will have to be comfortable stooping, bending, and standing for long periods of time
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science or a related field. An additional four years of experience may be substituted for a degree

Desired Multipliers 

• Experience with low-medium volume manufacturing, or design for manufacture and product development life cycle, or quality tools including root cause and corrective action, PFMEAs, QMS, and process auditing and statistical analysis of quality metrics
• Experience in control and monitoring of complex automated systems and risk assessment/reduction of the system
• Working knowledge of Python or other coding language