As the Director of Manufacturing Operations at Assembly, you’ll get hands-on with our design and prototyping teams to help transition products from concept to reality. The engineering you do will shape many aspects of our work: you’ll drive manufacturing system design to meet safety, quality, volume, and cost; perform manufacturing process introduction, validation and improvements; provide support to the team in design for manufacturing; conduct make vs buy analysis; develop equipment, tooling and fixtures to support production; and develop and implement advanced manufacturing procedures and systems in an industry where this has never been done before.

You Will:

• Contribute to manufacturing system design development and implementation, establishing process workflow, layout, space requirements, standard time, and manufacturing capacity/ cost.
• Provide a focus on safety, quality and cost management, and maintain a culture of execution in accordance with Assembly’s culture and values.
• Provide production ramp-up planning to deliver capital equipment on time and in sequence.
• Manage the design, delivery and validation of critical tooling and stations.
• Provide capital equipment selection criteria and decision influence.
• Manage the roll-out of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES).
• Develop standard work and work instruction documents for assembly processes that will be maintained within the MES system.
• Support the implementation of the ERP system from production, inventory and planning perspective.
• Perform structured root cause analysis of in-process failures.
• Implement and enhance engineering process documentation such as process flow diagrams, control plans, PFMEA, DFM, DFA and statistical process controls.
• Demonstrate urgency when necessary, and address and resolve issues quickly and in accordance with company priorities.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements and cost savings through tools and processes.

You Are:

• A hands-on engineer with a passion for continuous improvement and building the best hardware.
• Highly self-directed and capable of solving complex problems.
• An optimist with a can-do attitude.
• Highly proficient in project management, and able to forecast tasks, complexity and resources.
• A clear communicator who is comfortable expressing ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Adept in Six Sigma methodologies and able to deploy them without existing infrastructure.

You Have:

• Bachelor of science degree in mechanical, aerospace, manufacturing engineering or related discipline from an accredited university.
• 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing, and/or production of aerospace, automotive, biomedical or other complex products.
• Experience transitioning products from design to manufacturing as part of a cross-functional team in a fast-paced iterative design environment.
• Experience designing and qualifying manufacturing lines & equipment
• Experience modeling with 3D CAD software such as: NX/Unigraphics, CATIA, Solidworks.
• Experience and demonstrated capability with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing per ASME Y14.5.
• Working proficiency with PFMEA methodology and implementation.
• Knowledge and experience applying statistical methods to track process capability.
• Demonstrated experience designing tooling in a manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on engineer with a passion for continuous improvement and building the best hardware.
• Knowledge in process simulation is a plus.

Compensation Range: $160,000 - $190,000/ year (dependent upon experience)