Engineer - Mfg/Process/Industria... - Contract - TalentBurst, Inc.

Title: Engineer - Mfg/Process/Industrial
Location: Merritt Island, FL 32953
Duration: 6 Months

Description:
A shift: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm ET

• We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling company’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.
• As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of specialists, you will develop a coordinated manufacturing system maximizing state of the art manufacturing processes to design and manufacture sophisticated space launch vehicles. Partnering with manufacturing and facilities, you’ll lead this process and gather the manufacturing and facility needs, utilizes Lean techniques and creates meaningful foundations for high-efficiency manufacturing processes. You will work with a team of welding engineers, automation engineers, and operators to seek sophisticated challenges related to process implementation, monitoring, and inspection. We seek people who are passionate about space and possess a strong desire to continuously learn and improve.
• This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.
• We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!
• Responsibilities:Lead manufacturing-related projects
• Lead operations improvement - ergonomic & human factor, operations plans, recovery planning, capacity planning and capital planning
• Provide production support - scheduling, theory of constraint, budget & forecast, crew empowerment, defect analysis, core competency definition, make/buy evaluation, benchmarking analysis
• Identify and prioritize process improvement project - lean manufacturing, engineering economic analysis, process mapping, root cause analysis, statistical methods, six sigma and time studies
• Facilitate system integration - Value Stream Analysis, Facility Layouts, Production Systems Design, Manufacturing Process Design, Systems Thinking, Facilities Planning, and Requirements

Main responsibilities

• The hired candidate will execute titime-motion study directly on the field.
• Perform time studies, make observations and form opinions regarding issues identified, their cause and possible solutions.
• Through time studies, observations, or data analysis, gathers data to form opinions regarding issues identified, their cause and possible solutions.
• Performs analysis aimed at improving operations, determining hourly labor requirements, and developing planning standards. In addition, assists with analyses that are smaller subcomponents of larger more complex projects.
• Provides input into the design for simple studies (and under the direction of the supervisor); plans study schedule, meets and trains hourly data collectors (when applicable) and ensures that data is being collected properly. Based on study observations, provides input to aid in troubleshooting and problem solving. Manages the data input and organization of time study data collected.
• Develops ad hoc queries and reporting needed for others/users to track and monitor operating performance. Updates and maintains existing databases and spreadsheet tables.
• Gathers and manipulates large quantities of data into a format necessary for analysis.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training, and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Work directly at consolidating and validating the industrial engineering models
• This position encompasses all manufacturing areas in support of the build of NEW GLENN and provides a unique opportunity to fully contribute to the build of one of the biggest rockets the word has seen.

Qualifications:

• BS in Operations Research, Industrial, Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering
• 4+ years of experience working directly with manufacturing in a production environment
• Demonstrated ability in manufacturing and/or facilities planning
• Factory flow, process modeling and simulations experience
• Experience leading continuous improvement and value stream mapping events
• Strong analytic skill set and a high degree of proficiency in data mining
• Exceptional with Excel and manual data analysis
• Excellent Interpersonal Communication Skills
• Self-Starter
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion

Desired:

• Operations Management, Construction Management, MSE and/or MBA
• Manned space flight production experience
• Project Management Certification (PMP)
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
• Experience transitioning development to production
• Strong teaming skills
• Experience with manufacturing organizations and/or supply chain
• Hands-on experience with materials and manufacturing processes

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Skill/Experience/Education:

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Desired Skills:
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Skill Name	Level (1-5, 5 being the highest) 1 2 3 4 5	Years	Mandatory(Yes/No)	Job Description
Process Modeling		9-10 Years	Yes	Capacity to elaborate a process flow for specific build. Assign key data for each step of the operations. Determine efficiency / utilization as well as learning curve standards
Cost/benefit analysis		9-10 Years	Yes	Knows how to carry on ROIs. Knows the different return on investment calculations and when they apply
Process measurement		9-10 Years	Yes	Has been exposed to time study campaign. Understands the different ways to collect data and how to sample work measurements. Is aware of the impact the measurement can have on the data itself
Manufacturing process design		9-10 Years	Yes	Can break down the process in subtasks and make a flow proposal
Production system design		9-10 Years	Yes	Understands how a manufacturing shop floor shall be operated. Understands Operating plans and what / how production signals are communicated
Facilities layout design		9-10 Years	Yes	Knows how to use autocad / visio and can interpret data and make shop floor / facility layouts for a production area
Operating plans		9-10 Years	Yes	Knows what data shall be available in an operating plan and what information is needed to build one
Labor Budgeting		9-10 Years	Yes	Understands what information shall be accounted for in the development of labor estimates
Capacity Analysis		9-10 Years	Yes	Is proficient at carrying on capacity analysis. Know the inputs, the key variables as well as the outcome of the analysis and how they shall be interpreted
Recovery Planning		9-10 Years	Yes	Makes different proposal to recover the planning actioning of the following levers. Additional assets capacity, additional shift and resource. Reduction of the process variability. Improvement of the process