Senior Manufacturing Project Engineer

Role Overview

The Manufacturing Programs team at Beehive Industries is responsible for bridging the gap between engineering and operations. They are involved in NPI manufacturing readiness, cost, and delivery, ensuring that projects are executed efficiently and meet customer expectations.

What You'll Do...

• Cook up all aspects of the Manufacturing Product Development Team activities, ensuring all key stakeholders are involved in planning and are accountable to their tasks to ensure the execution of the team's activities
• Create and manage project schedules and coordinate with operations and other departments to ensure successful delivery of hardware
• Keep in touch with engineering regularly on project progress, setbacks, obstacles, and improvements throughout and before the manufacturing process
• Predict risks and project changes and propose or implement risk mitigation actions
• Turn customer requirements into a manufacturing review and flow-down
• Work with external vendors to get quotes, issue purchase orders, and manage schedules
• Establish machining supply chain strategies and work to optimize or onboard out-of-house vendors for projects
• Track hardware through the process to ensure timely delivery to the next operation and eventually to the end customer
• Coordinate with all departments to work through non-conformances, engineering change notices, and other unplanned events
• Partner with finance and leadership while developing unit cost forecasting. Perform cost trades and execute cost-out projects
• Manage and track project budget to ensure under-budget delivery
• Meet critical deadlines while managing multiple conflicting priorities
• Analyze and understand data quickly to make informed business decisions
• Supports proactive process improvement at the project or organizational level

You Are Someone Who...

• Team Player - Demonstrates the definition of an Integrated Program Team (IPT) through collaboration, a positive attitude, and a willingness to work together to accomplish the mission
• Decisiveness - Exhibits the personal confidence necessary to make critical decisions, even amidst controversy and doubt
• Detail-oriented Multitasker - The successful candidate will be able to handle multiple issues affecting many products at the same time
• Mission-oriented - Possesses the attitude, drive, and desire necessary to see assigned tasks through to completion, on schedule
• Communication - Must be able to effectively communicate and forge strong working relationships with people across multiple organizations and influence decision making and particularly in a hybrid environment
• High level of comfort operating in an environment of uncertainty, speed, and change
• Shares critical information, transparently, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Proactive, creative, and innovative in solving problems and issues
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with cross-departmental teams of staff and executives
• Able to manage multiple projects at the same time and experience creating processes from scratch
• Able to plan and manage daily tasks, meet deadlines, analyze, provide results, and recommend solutions to various levels of management
• Willingness to work extended hours during mission-critical activities

You Have...

• Bachelor’s degree in one of the following: Mechanical Engineering, Applied Sciences, Manufacturing, Supply chain, Industrial Engineering or close disciplines
• 5+ years of relevant project management experience. Additive manufacturing experience is desired
• PMP certification desired but not required
• Strong knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project or similar project management software
• Willingness to work extended hours during mission-critical activities
• Understanding of overall aerospace manufacturing process (Additive manufacturing, thermal processing, machining, coating, NDT, mechanical testing, etc.)
• Experience managing aerospace or automotive projects

Nice to Have...

• AS9100/ISO9001 or equivalent (automotive, medical, etc.) experience