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Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

Santa Ana, CA (OC-42)💼 Full-time💰 $146,000–$146,000🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead and scale manufacturing engineering and planning teams to transition complex maritime defense hardware from R&D to high-rate production.

Role type

Manager, Manufacturing Engineering (Maritime Systems)

Builds

Deployable static and moving surface, undersea, and sea-to-air vehicles

Domain

Defense / Maritime Manufacturing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Manufacturing strategy, NPI leadership, mechanical assembly, electrical integration, composite fabrication, precision machining, MES, PDM, DFM/DFA/DFT, root-cause analysis, statistical process control, cross-functional alignment

Preferred skills

Naval/aerospace defense experience, NAVSEA/MIL-SPEC standards, ERP systems, automated assembly qualification

Technologies

Forge (MES), PDM, ERP

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor manufacturing engineers and planners; Define and execute manufacturing roadmap and qualification strategies; Direct creation of manufacturing plans and optimize routings; Own MBOM and as-built configuration tracking; Lead DFM/DFA/DFT assessments; Lead root-cause analysis and yield optimization; Act as primary technical interface across Design, Quality, Supply Chain, Tooling, and Operations

Seniority

Manager, hands-on leadership

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