Manufacturing Engineer III

Job Description

A lead defense contractor, sitting in Simi Valley, CA is looking to hire a Manufacturing Engineer III. This Manufacturing Engineer will be supporting production of their loitering munition system product line. In their day to day responsibilities 50% of their time will be on the production floor handling issues, 30% of the time will be creating new procedures, handling deviations and engineering change orders. The other 20% will be dedicated to NPI (New Product Integration) or process improvements. Additional responsibilities, include dealing with non-conformance issues, MRP and disposition of the re-work and creating re-work instruction of the production floor. This employer is expanding their operations at their Salt Lake City location for this same product line so this ME will be required to train their Salt Lake City employees and handling Capital Expenditure efforts as well. This role will require rare but some travel to Salt Lake City as needed(about 5% of the time) to visit the facility. He/she will also be involved in introducing new platforms, manufacturing systems, and transferring all the data into that new platform and that improvement requires a lot of research and hard work and implementation of these new software and new equipment they're implementing for overall process improvement. This will be full-time role M-Fri paying between $100-153k depending on years of experience and qualifications.

Skills and Requirements

• 5-7+ years of Manufacturing Engineering experience
• Applied Electromechanical Components experience with motors, ground connections, battery chargers, telemetry, radio frequencies,
• Good understanding of process improvements in a manufacturing environment and creating SOP's dealing with yield improvement
• Familiarity with ERP system(s), good understanding and manufacturing execution systems, understanding with quality management systems
• Configuration management experience; Obtained Lean Six Sigma Ability to work in a fast paced production environment UAV/Defense experience Understanding of Oracle Fusion

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