Description:
The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for delivering flight-worthy products and maturation of technologies to meet production cost and rate requirements. Success requires collaboration with other collaborators and subject matter experts spanning across the entire product life cycle at the component, system, and aircraft-level. This role embodies the integrated approach to design, build, test flight-worthy components, systems, and aircrafts with an emphasis on airframes and composite/metallic components.
This position will be required to work on-site 5 days a week.
What you can do:
- Execute build plans driven by program milestones, critical paths, and risk registry
- Author work instructions to build and test flight-worthy components and systems
- Support statement of work and on-board equipment, hardware, and fixtures at work centers
- Support quality assurance efforts such as incoming inspection, functional testing, process/product buy-off
- Support equipment procurement to perform functional testing
- Work with technicians and subject matter experts to build and test flight-worthy products
- Advocate build team objectives with other verticals, collaborators, and suppliers
- Provide design for manufacturing guidelines to ensure build success across the organization
- Prioritize build initiatives according to product and tech development roadmap
- Leverage expertise of technology development partners to speed up product development
- Develop and execute certification plans for novel manufacturing technologies
- Support the fabrication efforts for structural test and demonstration articles
- Develop manufacturing standard practices and guidelines
- Support other teams in detail design, systems architecture and systems integration work
- Support in the review and approval of supplier's statement of work, work instructions, and specs
- Contribute to the development of the aircraft maintenance manual
- May require up to 25% of domestic and international travel
- Other duties as assigned
What you can contribute:
- Bachelor's degree in STEM or related field required; Master's degree preferred
- Up to of three (3) years of experience in urban air mobility, aviation and/or automotive (an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered)
- Ability to manage competing priorities
- Ability to pick up and apply new concepts
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent listening and comprehension skills
- Excellent planning, organizing, and coordinating skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality