Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Metrea•Huntsville, AL

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific. The Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs. Reporting to the SHADOWLAB Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Electromagnetics and Cyber Group (EM&C), and supporting Metrea’s overall engineering efforts, the Principal Manufacturing Engineer will join our busy team specializing in state-of-the-art military communications and signals intelligence products. All our teams operate in a small agile environment which allows our engineering personnel to work independently on a wide variety of systems and products. Our mix of product development and R&D also provides our engineering staff with a constant flow of new and interesting projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in either Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Civil, or Industrial Engineering.
10-15 years of experience with mechanical design, CAD modeling, engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, and product documentation.
10-15 years of experience with manufacturing processes, assembly methods, tooling, fixtures, materials, and design-for-manufacturing / design-for-assembly principles.
10-15 years of experience working in a cross-functional engineering environment with strong problem-solving, documentation, communication, and root-cause analysis skills.
Employee must be a US citizen.

Responsibilities

Develop, review, and maintain mechanical designs, drawings, assemblies, and manufacturing documentation to support prototype and production builds.
Create and improve manufacturing processes, assembly instructions, work instructions, tooling, fixtures, and test support equipment.
Support design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly reviews to improve producibility, reduce costs, and increase product reliability.
Work with cross-functional teams including electrical, software, quality, supply chain, and production personnel to resolve design and manufacturing issues.
Investigate nonconformances, production defects, supplier issues, and test failures, then support corrective actions and process improvements.
Support transition of products from engineering development into production, including BOM reviews, material readiness, build planning, and production troubleshooting.