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Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Auckland Production Complex Office💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior Manufacturing Engineer responsible for owning complex products from concept to full-scale production, driving manufacturing excellence, and solving critical issues in aerospace/defense manufacturing.

Role type

Senior IC Manufacturing Engineer (Aerospace/Defense)

Builds

Rockets, satellites, payloads, and spacecraft components for NASA, national security, and commercial missions.

Domain

Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work -> physical/clinical work (manufacturing of flight hardware)

Required skills

Root cause analysis, corrective actions, risk assessment, Lean/Six Sigma, DFM/DFT, GD&T, CNC programming, system debugging, project planning, stakeholder influence, high-pressure problem solving

Preferred skills

Aerospace/defense background, DFMEA/PFMEA, Fault Tree analysis, SPC, capacity modelling, value stream mapping, environmental testing, ERP/PLM systems, mentoring engineers

Technologies

3/5-axis CNC, oscilloscopes, power supplies, sensors, serial devices, Siemens TeamCenter, Infor LN

Responsibilities

Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions on failures, create bulletproof production procedures and processes, drive design reviews as DFM/DFT expert, launch new products into production, mentor engineers and production teams, implement planning and quality systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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