Lead, Avionics Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities

• Coach, mentor and develop engineers to achieve new heights in their careers
• Perform weekly, quarterly and yearly reviews with direct employees
• Interview and hire candidates to fill new roles
• Create team goals and metrics to drive continuous improvement projects
• Lead/organize meetings to drive project completion
• Contribute to design reviews as an expert in design for manufacture and design for test
• Oversee introduction and implementation of new products and product revisions
• Perform Value Stream Mapping, Method of Manufacture plans, and cell design
• Define and implement factory layouts, equipment selection, and production commissioning
• Lead problem containment and structured root cause and corrective action investigations
• Lead continuous improvement processes using lean tools and 5S

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Electrical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, or Mechanical preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment
• Personnel leadership experience
• Strong working knowledge of EEE piece parts, PCB, PCBA, electromechanical assembly, tooling, test, and quality techniques
• Extensive experience using electronic circuits and design principles to solve component issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced engineering degree
• 8+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with environmental acceptance testing (vibration, shock, thermal, vacuum)
• Understanding of instrumentation, interfaces, and sensors
• Experience designing and supporting production lines
• Experience transitioning products from design to production
• Demonstrated experience with DFMEA, PFMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, and Pareto analysis

About the Company

Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering responsive launch services, complete spacecraft design and manufacturing, payloads, satellite components, and more.