Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Albany International Corp.•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) is one of the most technically advanced designers and manufacturers of lightweight composite aerospace structures, subassemblies and components. For more than 50 years, AEC has innovated advanced composite solutions for defense and commercial industries in applications from large commercial transports to fighter jets and commercial and military rotorcraft. Our composite design and fabrication expertise can be found on many commercial platforms such as Boeing’s 7-series family, the Airbus A380 aircraft as well as Sikorsky S-76 helicopter. For defense programs, AEC provides a wide range of products including complete structural assemblies, flight critical components, primary and secondary structural elements for platforms such as the F-35 Lightning II, the CH-53K Heavy-lift Helicopter and the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM). AEC is committed to delivering high-quality, economical composite solutions to our customers. Significant investment in infrastructure and automation ensures AEC is positioned to maximize that value, offering the right processes to meet our customer’s needs. The Manufacturing Engineering Lead coordinates and prioritizes the Manufacturing Engineering group's activities for the facility while maintaining compliance to customer, industry and Albany requirements. The lead maintains and improves Albany engineering processes and trains and mentors others in these and in engineering best practices, while inspiring a culture of collaboration, teamwork and a drive for cost effective engineering and maintenance. In addition to leading the group, the lead has engineering responsibilities including: designs and plans layout for such activities as machining/composite materials layout and assembly. Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions. Plans for the arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout. Plans sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance. May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.

Requirements

BS/BA in Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or Equivalent (AE/CE/IE)
Demonstrated collaborative leadership of teams and co-workers and ability to motivate and engage others.
Minimum 7+ years of hands on experience in design and procurement of manufacturing engineering for complex aerospace layup, RTM, AFP, machining, assembly and transport in an aerospace team environment.
Managing, communicating and working to provided schedules, budgets and deadlines.
Experience in clearly communicating project requirements, design concepts and project status both verbally and written (Microsoft Office).

Nice To Haves

DMAIC, DFSS, LEAN, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, Mistake Proofing, DOE, DFx
Root Cause and Corrective Action / Nonconformance Disposition (MRB)
Production and Assembly Environment (Composite Lay Up, Cure, Paint, and NDI)
Machine shop environment (Composite Machining) as a manufacturing engineer
New Product Development / New Business Development
Shop Planning Generation (MS Word Products, etc)
Working in/Leading a multi--disciplined team
GD&T
CATIA V5
Green Belt Certified a plus
Experience in Windchill, and SAP a plus
Aerospace manufacturing a plus

Responsibilities

Lead, coordinate and prioritize engineering activity.
Coordinate solutions to technical problems.
Review and provide feedback to lower level engineer's work product.
Train and mentor engineers to technical and company processes.
Facilitate flow and communication between engineering and other groups.
Maintain, improve and train to Albany, customer and industry engineering design and life cycle processes.
Manage group related metrics (aging QN's, project ECD's, on time starts examples) and project status.
Provide input to performance appraisals.
Create a culture of working cooperatively with operations, engineering and leaders to create, optimize and maintain cost effective manufacturing.
Lead and support engineering related audits and metrics.