Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Development Machining Operations (DMO) team, fostering technical expertise, operational rigor, innovation, collaboration, and alignment to business goals
• Develop and own long term investment strategy, multi-year budgets and operating plans for DMO.  Ensure adequate funding and staffing for work scope, manage spending and throughput, meet monthly and annual targets.
• Coordinate producibility engineering concurrently with product development teams to ensure manufacturability and process readiness. Identify and mitigate risks early to meet targets through the lifecycle.
• Working with engineering and production teams, develop and optimize manufacturing operations through process development including tooling and equipment, continuous improvements, process capability and production control.
• Bring strong experience in technology and manufacturing process maturation, pilot demonstration and change management.
• Work across functions to manage project scope, budgets and funding, resources, milestones and timelines for program execution plans, business contracts, continuous improvements and strategic goals.
• Deliver on priorities ensuring effective management of tasks, risk mitigation, meet project milestones, while being accountable for deliverables to stakeholders
• Demonstrate leadership during reviews, discussions and meetings with the stakeholders and customers, navigating business processes and managing risks.
• Have open and effective communication, bring clarity and transparency, influence and resolve escalations to meet business targets.
• Grow talent by matching skills with work scope needs and leading career development and talent initiatives.
• Partner with FLIGHT DECK and other people leaders in Product Validation to lead implementation of FLIGHT DECK and a lean, problem solving culture.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a minimum of 5 years engineering, manufacturing or operations experience
• Demonstrated ability as a people leader.

Desired Characteristics

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college in electrical engineering, mechanical/manufacturing engineering, aerospace engineering, production / industrial engineering or related engineering field or masters degree from an accredited university or college in applied science, physics, or mathematics.
• Current DoD Secret (or greater) Clearance.
• Established project management skills.
• Prior experience in Aerospace manufacturing processes and materials, component manufacturing and assembly.
• Diverse expertise in any of these technical disciplines – machining, fabrication, joining, castings and forgings, composites, additive, digital, inspection and quality, cost engineering and automation.
• People leadership experience.
• Masters degree in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Industrial/Production Engineering.
• Strategic thinker with domain expertise; Problem solving and resolution.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills