The Role
The Manufacturing Engineer designs and improves assembly processes for electric aviation, ensuring quality, efficiency, and safety while training personnel and analyzing production data.
Summary Generated by Built In
At BETA Technologies, we apply our intellectual curiosity, passion for aviation, and commitment to sustainability toward a shared mission of revolutionizing electric aviation. Regardless of the position one holds, each team member brings their talent and desire to positively impact the environment and lives of others in a refreshing, vibrant, and inclusive culture.
We are changing aerospace. BETA is seeking a passionate, outside-the-box thinker who will design, implement, and improve assembly processes for Alia manufacturing. You will work with a bright and motivated cross-functional team, and deliver turnkey solutions to enable aerospace production at rate. Your work will bring the highest safety, quality, and efficiency while reducing overall, long-term costs. Your level of involvement will begin in the design phase of new programs all the way to stable, reliable production.
How you will contribute to revolutionizing electric aviation:
- Provide recommendations regarding manufacturing personnel training and equipment requirements
- Develops initial and final production readiness plans for new designs
- Evaluates producibility of new designs through application/implementation of various process techniques and equipment capability studies
- Works to meet quality and productivity goals for established or planned processes
- Ensure Manufacturing Process Instructions are understandable, on-line, up to date and ready for production
- Works in conjunction with engineering to develop consistent and repeatable processes that can be quantified by use of statistics or other verification and validation tools.
- Analyze production data to identify processes causing inefficiencies in overall process performance
- Lead continuous improvement implementation and productivity improvement
- Promotes an atmosphere of excellence, high sense of urgency, high energy and exceptional communication
- Understand certification requirements and assess and reduce certification risks in the overall process
- Plan sufficient capacity to meet business targets for production output
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline
- 0-5+ years of professional experience in assembly and test processes
- Strong foundation of problem-solving skills, statistical process control, design of experiments, and simulation techniques
- Understanding of design for assembly, lean manufacturing, and capacity planning techniques
- Product/equipment Validation experience (i.e. AQAP, PPAP)
- Exceptional project management and leadership skills
- Strong verbal and written internal and external communication skills
- Able to read and understand Engineering drawings (including GD&T)
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically or internationally
- Demonstrated Lean Six Sigma experience
Above and Beyond Qualifications:
- Aerospace or highly regulated manufacturing experience
- Exposure to rapid manufacturing growth and preferably startup experience
- Understanding of design for manufacture, design for assembly analyses
- Certification/Certificate in Lean Manufacturing
- Ability to flex shifts to support production
- Project Planning, cross-function leader of teams involving internal and external stakeholders.
- Cellular manufacturing, flow, pull, line balancing, standard work and time standards
- Self-motivated, results oriented, and can work prioritize workload with minimal supervision
- PLEX ERP system experience
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Ability to be on your feet for long periods of time
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs
Build electric airplanes with us!
BETA offers a competitive Total Compensation package designed to support you now and as you grow with us. This role includes both Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units for all full-time team members, so everyone shares in our success. You’ll have access to onsite healthcare in Vermont, comprehensive medical coverage, dental and vision, short- and long-term disability, and paid parental leave. We also take care of the everyday details with daily lunch provided, and yes—flight lessons are part of the experience, along with a range of additional perks that make work here genuinely rewarding.
We encourage all driven candidates to apply, even if they do not meet every listed qualification.
We are an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner on race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. BETA complies with all applicable federal, state and local non-discrimination laws and does not tolerate discrimination of any kind in our workplace.
Employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. BETA Technologies participates in E-Verify.
Top Skills
Lean Manufacturing
Plex Erp
Six Sigma
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The Company
What We Do
BETA Technologies is creating an electric transportation ecosystem that’s safe, reliable and sustainable. A relentlessly focused team is building an extensive charging infrastructure and ALIA, the world’s most technologically advanced electric vertical aircraft (EVA). BETA’s platform and products are strikingly simple. Prioritization of safety and a pragmatic approach to certification drive elegant redundancy, appropriate diversity of implementation and simplicity of control. ALIA’s fixed-pitch propellers and centrally located batteries make it an inherently stable aircraft that is safe to fly and easy to maneuver.
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