Senior Manufacturing Engineer (Composites)

Senior Manufacturing Engineer (Composites)
$120K - $180K
Tucson, AZ or Phoenix, AZ

Position Summary
Develop and maintain control over standards for production operations, follow up with compliance of production processes, suggest changes in current process to achieve higher efficiency levels and determine requirements through demand.

Essential Responsibilities
Develop and apply composite materials and manufacturing processes to meet all customer product requirements in a fully documented, production-ready process. Select materials and consumables, create and maintain BOMs. Identify Key Product Characteristics (KPC"s), manage, control and assure compliance of them throughout product value chain. Design, qualify, and implement tools, fixtures and equipment as required to develop these textiles, preforms, or composite parts and produce conforming product.
Work closely with the operations team to ensure achievement of key technical customer requirements within program schedule and budget; ensure specific resources are identified and provided as needed (tooling, equipment, materials, etc.). Support teams" meetings (cross functional and departmental) and activities related to engineering/technical elements of program.
Provide configuration board authority for engineering, including change definition, qualification and approval, material review, defect or process failure investigation, root cause and corrective action.
Define criteria for production readiness, and qualify developed processes, procedures and tooling/fixtures in support of transition to production and production sustainment. Ensure compliance to Quality System Procedures and internal governing documents.
Identify opportunities to improve the manufacturing process, assess the costs/benefits of the improvements, and effectively communicate, obtain approval as required, and implement those changes.

Provide engineering/technical project updates and communications as needed by internal and external customers.
Provide mentoring and technical leadership to the engineering organization in relevant areas of expertise. Identify and support implementation of organizational process improvement initiatives.
Support new business development efforts by preparing proposals and supporting quotation. Revise quotations through the life cycle of a project to ensure that the organization is compensated for work associated with changes in the scope of the program.

Position Requirements
EDUCATION: BS Engineering degree is required. Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering preferred.

EXPERIENCE: Minimum of 7 years" experience in manufacturing/process engineering. Preferred 10+ years of experience: Aerospace Composite

Knowledge of raw materials, manufacturing methods, production processes, quality control, costing, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Proven experience with new product introduction or product design and development process, engineering change process, material review process, document control, and quality control systems.
Proven experience with manufacturing process control methods and tools, such as root cause analysis, SPC, and manufacturing process qualification.