Design for Manufacturing Engineer - New Product Introduction | Manufacturing Engineering

How you will contribute to revolutionizing electric aviation:

• Work with the aircraft design teams to ensure all new designs are easy to manufacture, developing trade studies and fabrication plans to assist with decision making.
• Work with supply chain and various fabrication teams to develop the make vs buy strategy, promoting cross team communication and smooth introduction of new parts to manufacturing.
• Collect, review and report on production data to develop ideas and concepts for the highest impact technological advancements to pursue.
• Develop reports outlining the plan, cost, estimated benefit and ROI of introducing new technology, to get buy in from production, supply chain and design teams.
• Maintain a list of design and manufacturing improvements with a road map outlining when improvements will be implemented.
• Work with the tool design, production and facilities teams to develop the plan for introducing the new product or technology to the production operation.
• Design tools and floor plan layouts as required.
• Work with internal and external fabricators to see parts through manufacturing.
• Become an expert on the manufacturing processes used to fabricate and assemble the aircraft, in order to develop high impact improvement ideas.
• Have a good understanding of aircraft material systems requirements and associated tooling.
• Create assembly and part level drawings, technical data packages, and BOMs as required.
• Follow aircraft Design, Review, and Change processes.
• Document the first article builds, highlighting any learnings and additional improvements.
• Work closely with production to develop a handoff plan to ensure the introduction of the new products or technology and handoff to production is seamless.
• Review production data after the introduction of new technology and report on the observed benefit.
• Mentor team members, and coordinate agile team goals and timelines
• Participate in cross-functional design reviews
• Develop scalable manufacturing processes in parallel with product design

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience with design, fabrication and testing new products or technologies.
• Working knowledge of a variety of materials, aluminum, steel, composites, coatings and manufacturing processes, drilling, lathe, mill, welder, bonding, abrasion, etc.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (mechanical design, electrical design, software, quality, supply chain, certification, manufacturing)
• Adept at interpreting and understanding engineering documentation, such as drawings and specifications. Also able to interpret and understand quality documentation and requirements.
• Experience with CAD design - 3DX and Delmia preferred.
• Great organization and communication skills. Experience managing projects involving multiple teams is considered an asset.
• Experience with supplier management and development for R&D tooling, parts and equipment
• Capable of providing dedicated supply chain support for R&D tooling and equipment
• Experience with fabrication of first article components and working with vendors (internal and external) on manufacturing methodology development.
• Knowledge of automated manufacturing or assembly techniques, robotics and hardware.
• Experience developing manufacturing processes for Aerospace applications both low cost prototype pathways and high rate precision production equipment.