Rapid Prototyping Project Manager

RTX•Tucson, AZ

4d•$86,800 - $165,200•Onsite

About The Position

The Bike Shop within the Hardware engineering directorate is charged with providing rapid prototyping, early demonstration, product development support, and a wide range of capabilities and services to help engineering teams achieve demonstrated solutions throughout the product development process. These capabilities include engineering and test support, procurement coordination, and electrical and mechanical fabrication. The Bike Shop is seeking a Rapid Prototyping Project Manager to support our prototyping shop operations. They will work with the Front-End team and shop leadership to ensure that projects are estimated, planned, fabricated, and consistently delivered to customer schedule and cost targets in a fast-paced high volume, low mix, dynamic manufacturing environment. This role is located on-site in Tucson, AZ.

Requirements

Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience, and a minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience.
Relevant estimating experience.
Ability to read fabrication drawings and basic understanding of GD&T.
Knowledge of materials, machining processes, plating, hardware, inserts, etc.
Strong computer skills (MS Office Suite)
Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Ability to obtain INTERIM U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.

Nice To Haves

Experience using 3D CAD software

Responsibilities

Estimate fabrication tasks (labor hours, material costs, lead times) in a timely manner while identifying manufacturability issues and tooling required.
Communicate and negotiate technical requirements and schedules with customers and fabrication teams.
Use our internal shop floor management system (RAPID) to create project folders, bills of materials, and shop travelers, and maintain traceability to key project documentation.
Initiate quoting and ordering of raw materials, hardware, and machine tools for each project, working closely with our procurement team to track receipts and manage constraints.
Responsible for managing multiple projects from start to finish, following each part’s progress through shop processes, performing part/project final inspection and project closeout activities.
Work with shop leadership and customers to manage priorities, constraints, and mitigation strategies in the event of technical issues, scope creep, and schedule slips.