Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
?? Challenge the Impossible
About Beyond Gravity
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1800 professionals, spread across 14 locations in seven countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites, launchers and semiconductor industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for daily structures production support. The successful individual in this role is a creative, solutions-oriented engineer that takes ownership of manufacturing processes to drive world class Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery performance into the business.
Main Tasks:
- Provide daily support to manufacturing operations and related support teams in order to assure technically correct manufacturing and product flow, thereby assuring the necessary quality, OTD, and production costs
- Work cross-functionally with operations, quality, design engineering, and other teams to define manufacturing work instructions, equipment, tools, materials, and training
- Utilize project management techniques / tools to meet cost, technical, and schedule requirements
- Play key role in the non-conformance process and secure measures for root cause analyses, corrective and preventive measures
- Support continuous improvements in concerned manufacturing processes to deliver in line with customer quality, cost, and demand requirements
- Establish and provide the necessary documentation in support of strategic operations programs as well as for customer programs, support and participate in project reviews as necessary
- Proactively support and coach the production technicians through frontline support utilizing an integrated project team approach; provide training material (both software and hardware) as needed
- Establish standard work practices across manufacturing and eliminate waste to increase productivity
- Develop and verify new jigs, tooling, equipment, parts, and processes to meet requirements
- Actively participate in the change management process as it relates to your respective manufacturing process, driving and implementing process / design changes, support improvement of business processes
- Work with international colleagues in order to evaluate, improve, and transfer latest state processes and maintain standardization across the company portfolio
Important Outputs:
- Overall Operations daily support VSM, DtC/DfM Inputs, Support to Programs and Engineering
- On-Time milestone fulfilment and readiness of manufacturing equipment and documents in cooperation with PM’s and all other stakeholders
- Proactive technical management of production means and improvements
- KPI`s: Direct Rate, Deliverables on-track / delivered on-time, Production Line(s) Station Tracker
Requirements/Skill Set:
- B.S. degree or similar experience in a related (engineering) field with extensive relevant experience
- Demonstrate 7+ years of previous hands-on Manufacturing Engineering experience in a more complex manufacturing setting
- Demonstrates insight into quality and safety standards including AS9100 and OSHA or similar
- Previously worked with composite, metallic and non-metallic materials
Preferred:
- Space or Aerospace experience
- Production line leadership experience
- Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma knowledge/experience; experience with SAP or other ERP, MS Office
- Experience with MES, CAD and other relevant complex software
Other:
- Solution driven, willing to make a difference, and customer-orientation
- Passionate and co-operative performer who puts success of team first
- Good organizational and co-ordination skills
- Good communication and teamwork ability
- High stress resistance and perseverance
??Are you ready for lift-off?
Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. Propel your career to new heights. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.
For questions regarding the position, please contact: Blake Townsend | | Write an email
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact: Chalanah Wilson | | Write an email
Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.
Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.
Trinity, AL, US
Nearest Major Market: Decatur
