The Production team is looking for a versatile aerospace manufacturing leader tasked with overseeing the production of our low earth orbit satellites. This position will be a key leadership role in the manufacturing and assembly process for our products. They will be responsible for executing the design for manufacturability and continue improvement to delivery space-grade avionics, structures, and propulsion hardware at high rate and low cost. Personnel safety and product reliability are will always be top of mind for this candidate.
Requirements
- Serve as the primary point of support for the manufacturing technician team
- Provide mentorship and guidance to each member of the team via both frequent 1:1s and formal performance review periods
- Establish career development plans and foster individual growth to unlock each member's maximum potential and facilitate their desired career trajectory
- Advocate for the team and cultivate an environment where they can be successful
- Manage communication within the team by providing context/rationale for higher level decisions
- Develop cross-training initiatives, staffing plans, and a robust recruiting pipeline to support the growing needs of the business
- Establish and increase the efficiency of business processes to maximize output, limit burden, and enable products to rapidly transition from engineering development to high rate production
- Leverage cross-functional relationships to help identify improvement opportunities, align on priorities, and execute initiatives to reduce lead time, labor hours, etc
- Leverage data to establish, monitor, and improve manufacturing metrics enveloping safety, quality, delivery, and cost
- Enable manufacturing and supply chain autonomy by challenging requirements, simplifying work processes, and automating actions
- Partner with peer engineering teams to implement design changes in response to manufacturing and supply chain issues, customer challenges, new vehicle architectures, and departmental standardization initiatives
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts
- Retirement savings plans
- Life and disability insurance programs
- Paid and unpaid time away from work
