Title:  Sr. Manager, Manufacturing and Integration, Space Operations

Job Title: Sr. Manager, Manufacturing and Integration, Space Operations

Job Code: 24477

Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a Sr. Manager, Manufacturing Engineering to lead Manufacturing for mission critical space sensors of national importance used in global missile defense systems and weather observation. This role will be the Chief Manufacturing Engineer for the business and oversee all aspects of Manufacturing Engineering, process development, and production of space payloads with direct influence on product designs, manufacturing and test strategies.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage, develop, and grow a team of Manufacturing / Integration Engineers, Production Area Managers and Technicians to meet business objectives.
• Participate in setting strategic direction and communicating business plans for manufacturing focused on optimizing product costs, cycle times and product quality throughout the manufacturing process.
• Provide technical leadership on integration plans, processes, tools, and product design manufacturability assessments through collaboration with hardware engineering and business leaders.
• Develop and manage budgets associated with production costs and review new business proposals for technical accuracy and feasibility for production.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives and root cause analyses focused on driving LEAN processes and quality enhancements into product designs and manufacturing processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Previous management experience and excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills to interface between technical and business leadership.
• Experience with integration and test of space electro-optical payloads for DoD, NASA or other government applications.
• Experience in Lean Manufacturing Principles such as Mistake proofing, 3P, 5S+1, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Root Cause Analysis, Gemba, Pull-Flow, etc
• Working knowledge of space industry production standards such as J-STD-001, IPC and NASA and other workmanship specifications
• Experience scaling production operation from low volume to moderate volumes with focus on flow and reducing manual processes.
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems, Planning and Scheduling tools and managing material flow through factory operations.
• Proven experience managing test engineering teams in a high-performance, mission-critical environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and deploy process standards to achieve operational excellence in an environmental test operation.
• Leadership of multidisciplinary teams of test engineers and technicians within a 24/7 testing environment.

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