Manufacturing Engineer - E2

Standard Job Description

You will be a Manufacturing Engineer for the Precision Fires Rate Tooling team. As Missiles and Fire Control ramps up production capacity on Precision Fires programs, our team is responsible for the successful execution of rate tooling contracts. Programs that fall under Precision Fires include: Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), its Extended Range variant (GMLRS-ER), Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), M270 Launcher, and HIMARS Launcher.

What You Will Be Doing

As the Manufacturing Engineer you will be responsible for supporting rate tooling proposals, baselining program activities, and executing rate tooling contracts. A successful candidate for this role must be a demonstrated self-starter that works well with minimal oversight, learns quickly, and has the ability to drive projects across multiple sites, suppliers, and locations. Organizational skills and the ability to consolidate complex tooling data into actionable insight for leadership is a must. Your responsibilities will include:

• Generating Tangible Item Lists (TILs) and labor estimates based on make-where and make-split decisions
• Budget planning, Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) planning, and make site coordination
• Writing Tooling Action Requests (TARs) and Lean Requests (LRs)
• Collaborating with make sites to author tooling Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Managing priorities, budget, and schedule of Tool Design, Fabrication, and Prove-Out activities
• Reporting tool status to functional and program leadership, as well as USG customers

This position typically requires 2-3 years of professional experience.

Performs in a collaborative environment to develop and implement manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, fabrication, and material handling. Drives adoption of new technologies and processes (automation, robotics, computer aided manufacturing software, etc.) to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement. Creates and analyzes 3D based model data environment to optimize manufacturing process and digital work instructions. Leverages understanding of materials and automatic processes to define operations procedures and build sequences to drive operational excellence. Evaluates performance (including IoT devices, etc.) of equipment and tools to verify their efficiency and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure operational excellence. Leverages factory data to develop statistical process control approaches and integrates reporting and data analytics solutions for continuous improvement. Provides input to product design regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline
• Proficient in MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
• Ability to travel domestic and/or international
• Experience supporting the design and fabrication of manufacturing tooling
• Ability to obtain a Secret Security clearance

Desired Skills

• SAP application experience
• Windchill / MPM Link Experience
• Experience driving the implementation of automated manufacturing processes
• Experience in design for manufacturing / design for automation
• Experience creating and/or interpreting Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Experience managing project cost / schedule
• Experience working with Government customers
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate with cross functional teams/projects across multiple locations
• Demonstrated competency in Computer Aided Design (CAD) software (PTC Creo Preferred)
• Proven ability to improve cost, schedule, quality and/or safety