Optical Payload Manufacturing Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and support the planning, fabrication, and procurement of Optical Payload, subsystems, and components
• Ensure successful assembly and integration of complex systems, including payloads, communication and propulsion systems
• Provide regular status reports on manufacturing progress, identifying risks or delays to ensure timely project completion
• Develops, implements, and maintains methods, operation sequence and processes in the manufacture or fabrication of parts, components, sub-assemblies, and final assemblies
• 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 other engineering disciplines (Electrical, mechanical, systems) to ensure manufacturing processes and priorities are aligned with design requirements 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
• Develops appropriate documentation of findings and implemented solutions and communicates results to staff
• Makes technical presentations to staff
• Provides direction to less experienced professionals, design staff or technicians
• Maintains the strict confidentiality of sensitive information

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors in engineering or a related technical field as well as nine or more years of manufacturing engineering experience
• May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education
• 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
• Possesses the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment
• Customer focused, formulates plans based on the development of innovative new designs in resolving extremely complex manufacturing engineering problems
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required enabling an effective interface with other departments and/or professionals, and capable of representing the organization as a prime technical contact, as well as providing leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals
• Able to work both independently and in a team environment
• Able to work extended hours as required