***Preferred Candidate Identified***
Core Responsibilities:
· Lead and supervise the NPI engineering team
· Supervisory tasks including daily team performance oversight, hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and personal development of direct reports with primarily technical duties
· Be an engaged leader to direct reports to ensure open communication, and sustain a stable support team
· Perform individual contributor engineering tasks (ex. lead NPI projects, fixture/gage/process design & troubleshooting, material disposition)
· Oversee performance metrics, and apply countermeasures as needed (ex. NPI schedule performance)
· Participate in strategy development, deployment and execution
· Must interface with all internal organizational groups, vendors, and customers.
· Maintain strong communication with customers, internal management team, & vendors to ensure quality, schedule & financial goals are met
· Create, deploy, execute, and improve business processes compliant to requirements (self & direct reports)
· Support new product introduction efforts to integrate new items into production
· Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
· Minimum 5 years individual engineering support in a manufacturing environment
· Minimum 5 years technical team or project management
· Excellent written and verbal communication
· Capable of challenging and critical conversations with teams and individuals
· Experience navigating a complex organization to ensure the success of projects with evolving needs
· Project management experience with a proven track record of scheduling and organizing people effectively to complete assigned functions
· Proficient at reading, analyzing, and interpreting customer drawings, specifications, procedures, and standards
· Proficient with computer systems and basic software, experience with CAD (Solid Works,
NX, AutoCAD, or similar)
· Ideal candidates also possess:
o Machining, press/forming, welding, brazing, heat-treat, and inspection experience
o Die, tool, fixture, and gage design experience
o Minimum 5 years in aerospace industry
o Experience optimizing high mix / low volume production
o Continuous Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma experience
Education Requirements:
· BS Degree in a technical field (engineering, manufacturing/industrial technology)
· Ideal candidate has additional education/training in engineering, manufacturing, business administration and project management
