Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Missiles
Core
Lead manufacturing process development for defense hardware including static equipment, moving ground equipment, and complex vehicles.
Role type
Lead Manufacturing Engineer
Builds
Defense hardware systems (static equipment, moving ground equipment, complex vehicles)
Domain
Defense / Manufacturing
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Manufacturing process development, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Tool design and selection, Process optimization, Vendor management, Quality planning, Work documentation, Capacity planning, Continuous improvement analysis, Mechanical fabrication, Avionics expertise
Preferred skills
Production operation organization transformation, Large-scale change management, Harness and PCBA fabrication, SMT processes, R/C and autonomous flight vehicles, Control systems, Software scripting
Technologies
Lattice OS, SMT, R/C systems, Flight controllers
Responsibilities
Lead manufacturing engineering team to drive process improvements and ensure production quality, Execute manufacturing from prototyping to full-scale production, Collaborate with design engineers to integrate DFM best practices, Own documentation for manufacturing hardware at scale (MBOMs, work instructions), Facilitate make versus buy decisions and manage vendor quality, Analyze metrics for cost reduction and capacity increase, Develop production and test methodologies for scaling complex products
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership