REMOTE Manufacturing Engineering

General Atomics (GA), and its affiliated companies, is one of the world's leading resources for high-technology systems development ranging from the nuclear fuel cycle to remotely piloted aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electric, electronic, wireless and laser technologies.
With limited direction, this position supports the manufacturing production process with focus on the design, development, and implementation of new or revised production processes for the efficient and economical fabrication of parts, components, sub-assemblies, and final assemblies.

Develops, implements, and maintains methods, operation sequence and processes in the manufacture or fabrication of parts, components, sub- assemblies, and final assemblies.
Conducts tests throughout all stages of production to determine control over applicable variables and troubleshooting and resolving manufacturing problems that are extremely complex and require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
Designs the arrangement of manufacturing equipment to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
Designs the sequence of production operations, specifying procedures for the fabrication of applicable tools and equipment, and adapting machinery.
Interfaces and collaborates with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products.
Provides guidance to product design engineering on technical specifications that will best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
Estimates manufacturing cost, determines time standards, and makes recommendations for tooling and process requirements of new or existing product lines.
Ensures that production processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
Maintains records and reporting systems for coordination of manufacturing operations.
Typically requires a bachelors in engineering or a related technical field as well as nine or more years of manufacturing engineering experience. Demonstrates an extensive technical expertise and application of manufacturing engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice with the ability to organize, plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones with some experience in project leadership.
Customer focused, formulates plans based on the development of innovative new designs in resolving extremely complex manufacturing engineering problems.
Travel is required and operations are on a 9X80 schedule with every other Friday off.