Sr Manufacturing Engineer - General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems
San Diego, CA 92154
About the Job
Overview:
As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, this position will work cross functionally with design engineering to help resolve issues, quality engineering as part of MRB to support disposition of non-conformances, operators to help solve issues and identify process improvement opportunities, program management on scope and budget, planner/buyers/suppliers to resolve part issues, and peers for review of proposed process and tooling changes.
Major Position Responsibilities:
- Support manufacturing at Material Review Board (MRB) in determining material disposition and determine root cause and recommend corrective action.
- Design and implement lean process flows, assembly tooling, test equipment, and work area requirements.
- Develop and write assembly and test procedures, ensuring manufacturing baseline strategies as well as customer specific requirements are being met.
- Interface with design engineering and suppliers to provide solutions to technical problems in manufacturing. Review designs for manufacturability and assembly.
- Identify and implement cost reduction plans on an ongoing basis.
- Present manufacturing status to customers and management.
- Lead failure analyses using tools such as 5 Whys and Ishikawa diagrams.
- Provide labor & material estimates for program Estimate to Complete (ETC) and proposals
- Perform value stream mapping (VSM) and conduct Kaizen events as needed.
- Coordinate and approve transition of Special Test Equipment (STE) to manufacturing
- Conduct and document Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (Gage R&R) studies
- Conduct and document process FMEA’s
- Bacherlor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering in related field.
- 7+ years of experience
- Experience with MS Office tools
- Experience with Lean manufacturing practices
- Strong knowledge of setting up and operating CNC equipment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Understanding of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances (GD&T)
- Strong knowledge of trouble shooting manufacturing processes
- Strong knowledge of fixture & gauge design use
Source : General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems