Principal Manufacturing Engineer Advanced Manufacturing

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

• Lead manufacturing engineering assessments for defense and advanced manufacturing programs.
• Evaluate complete manufacturing systems from product design through production.
• Develop optimized manufacturing processes, layouts, equipment strategies, and production systems.
• Perform make/buy, capital investment, automation, tooling, and manufacturing process analyses.
• Develop business cases comparing alternative manufacturing approaches.
• Lead DFM/DFA and manufacturing feasibility assessments.
• Analyze labor content, cycle time, throughput, capacity, OEE, material flow, and manufacturing cost.
• Develop and evaluate plant layouts and production-flow strategies.
• Lead manufacturing simulation and capacity studies where appropriate.
• Identify high-value opportunities for cost reduction and productivity improvement.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to less-experienced engineers.
• Lead customer-facing technical discussions and presentations.
• Review technical data packages, engineering requirements, drawings, and specifications.
• Work with defense primes, government organizations, suppliers, and manufacturing facilities.
• Support implementation of recommendations and verify realized improvements.
• Prepare executive-level technical reports and recommendations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of manufacturing, process, industrial, or engineering experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of complex manufacturing engineering projects.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, equipment, labor, facilities, and production economics.
• Excellent technical and executive-level communication skills.
• Ability to independently assess ambiguous problems and develop practical solutions.
• Experience working directly with customers and senior leadership.

Preferred Experience:

• Defense/aerospace experience strongly preferred.
• Military vehicle, weapons, ammunition, propulsion, aerospace, or other complex defense product experience.
• Automotive manufacturing experience is highly transferable.
• Advanced automation and robotics.
• Manufacturing simulation.
• Facility planning.
• Capital equipment planning.
• Lean/Six Sigma.
• Cost modeling and should-cost analysis.
• Program/project leadership.
• Experience with U.S. Government or defense prime contractors.
• Active Secret clearance or previous experience working on classified programs.

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