Manufacturing Engineer

Beyond Gravity•Decatur, IL

About The Position

Manufacturing Engineer 🚀 Challenge the Impossible About Beyond Gravity Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1700 professionals, spread across 13 locations in six countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth. The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for daily structures production support. The successful individual in this role is a creative, solutions-oriented engineer that takes ownership of manufacturing processes to drive world class Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery performance into the business.

Requirements

B.S. degree or similar experience in a related (engineering) field with extensive relevant experience
Demonstrate 5+ years of previous hands-on Manufacturing Engineering experience in a more complex manufacturing setting
Demonstrates insight into quality and safety standards including AS9100 and OSHA or similar
Space or Aerospace experience
Production line leadership experience
Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma knowledge/experience; experience with SAP or other ERP, MS Office
Experience with MES, CAD and other relevant complex software
Solution driven, willing to make a difference, , and customer-orientation
Passionate and co-operative performer who puts success of team first
Good organizational and co-ordination skills
Good communication and teamwork ability

Responsibilities

Provide daily support to manufacturing operations and related support teams in order to assure technically correct manufacturing and product flow, thereby assuring the necessary quality, OTD, and production costs
Work cross-functionally with operations, quality, design engineering, and other teams to define manufacturing work instructions, equipment, tools, materials, and training
Utilize project management techniques / tools to meet cost, technical, and schedule requirements
Play key role in the non-conformance process and secure measures for root cause analyses, corrective and preventive measures
Support continuous improvements in concerned manufacturing processes to deliver in line with customer quality, cost, and demand requirements
Establish and provide the necessary documentation in support of strategic operations programs as well as for customer programs, support and participate in project reviews as necessary
Proactively support and coach the production technicians through frontline support utilizing an integrated project team approach; provide training material (both software and hardware) as needed
Establish standard work practices across manufacturing and eliminate waste to increase productivity
Develop and verify new jigs, tooling, equipment, parts, and processes to meet requirements
Actively participate in the change management process as it relates to your respective manufacturing process, driving and implementing process / design changes, support improvement of business processes
Work with international colleagues in order to evaluate, improve, and transfer latest state processes and maintain standardization across the company portfolio
Overall Operations daily support
VSM, DtC/DfM Inputs, Support to Programs and Engineering
On-Time milestone fulfilment and readiness of manufacturing equipment and documents in cooperation with PM’s and all other stakeholders
Proactive technical management of production means and improvements
KPI`s: Direct Rate, Deliverables on-track / delivered on-time, Production Line(s) Station Tracker