Production Engineering Supervisor - West Chester Internal Candidates ONLY

***Preferred Candidate Identified***

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead and supervise the OEM production 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. fixture/gage/process design & troubleshooting, material disposition)
• Oversee performance metrics, and apply countermeasures as needed (ex. non-conformance disposition back-log)
• 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: Machining, press/forming, welding, brazing, heat-treat, and inspection experience Die, tool, fixture, and gage design experience
• Minimum 5 years in aerospace industry
• Experience optimizing high mix / low volume production
• 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

Requisition Notices:

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
• Domestic and international business travel up to 20.
• Agency referrals not accepted for this position.