Manufacturing Engineer IV, Production Line Stand-Up

Sitreps • Las Vegas, NV

6d • $120,000 - $150,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves designing and establishing a company's production line in Las Vegas. The responsibilities include setting up the floor, tooling, fixtures, test equipment, and all assembly procedures. Currently, production knowledge resides with a partner, and the goal is to transfer this knowledge into documentation and execution by the company's own technicians by the end of the fiscal year. This is a hands-on role where the work directly contributes to shipping products.

Requirements

• 10 to 20 years of manufacturing or hardware engineering experience in electronics production.
• Experience standing up a production line, including layout, tooling specification, fixture design, workstation build-out, and validation.
• Deep electronics assembly process knowledge, covering SMT and through-hole, IPC-A-610 workmanship standards, ESD control, conformal coating, and functional test.
• Proven work instruction authorship with procedures that new technicians can follow.
• First-article inspection and process validation experience, including FAI, pilot builds, and process capability.
• Willingness to work with a partner's manufacturing team to extract process knowledge.
• U.S. citizenship, and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Prototype-to-production transition experience in a defense or aerospace environment.
• Test equipment and test fixture development, including automated functional test.
• Ruggedized or MIL-STD-qualified hardware production.
• AS9100 or ISO 9001 process environments, or Six Sigma or lean manufacturing credentials.

Responsibilities

• Line design: Detailed production line layout and workflow for the Las Vegas facility, including workstation configurations, materials handling, ESD protection, component storage and inventory management, and production floor safety for electronics assembly at the volumes required to hit full-rate production targets.
• Infrastructure: Design, procurement, installation, and validation of all production line infrastructure, including tooling, fixtures, test equipment, and assembly workstation configurations for both LRIP and full-rate production.
• Process documentation: Author and control every assembly procedure, software flashing protocol, inspection criterion, and quality control checkpoint across the three primary product lines.
• Knowledge capture: Embed with the board assembly partner during Phase 1 delivery to capture, refine, and formalize the assembly process knowledge the company needs to execute production independently next year.
• Pilot production: Lead first-article builds under controlled conditions for each product line, proving the documented procedures produce conforming units and driving process improvements before LRIP quantities begin.
• Sensor fusion tooling: Establish process documentation and tooling specifications for the navigation sensor fusion line, including modular assembly procedures for each sensor module variant, so the capability is fully validated before any delivery quantity is committed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior