The Talent Mine is recruiting for a growing Industrial / Process Engineer II with a background in process and manufacturing design for an immediate contract to hire role. This is with a very well known / reputed player in the aerospace industry, and they are hiring due to a push to deliver on a new R&D project!
If you are the kind of engineer that LOVES improving engineering practices and finding efficiencies in a project, with a passion for space exploration, read on!
Overview:
As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, you will develop an integrated manufacturing system leveraging innovative manufacturing processes to design and manufacture advanced space propulsion systems.
Partnering with manufacturing and facilities, you’ll own the process to capture the manufacturing and facility needs, leverages Lean techniques, and creates significant information for high-efficiency invention, evolution, and stable execution of advanced manufacturing processes.
Collaborating with a cross-functional team, you’ll identify requirements and execute on opportunities for data, tools, equipment, and workflow automation.
This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.
Special Mentions
- Travel expected up to 20% of the time.
- On-Site in Kent, WA
- Interviews will include a technical assessment.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Manage manufacturing-related projects.
- Achieve get-to-rate, cycle time and lead time reduction targets for the assigned work centers.
- Production Support- Production Scheduling, Theory of Constraints, Budgets and Forecasts, Crew Empowerment, Defect Analysis and Benchmarking Analysis, Resource Allocation, Scenario Planning, Discrete Event Simulation, Make/Buy Evaluations, and Cost/Price Evaluations.
- Process Improvement- Lean Manufacturing, Engineering Economic Analysis, Process Mapping, Root Cause Analysis, Statistical Methods, Six Sigma, Time Studies, Waste Reduction, and Work Sampling.
- Operations improvement- Ergonomic and Human Factors, Operations Plans, Recovery planning, Capacity planning, Capital planning.
- Integrated Systems- Value Stream Analysis, Facility Layouts, Production Systems Design, Manufacturing Process Design, Systems Thinking, Facilities Planning, and Requirements.
Qualifications:
- BS in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Manufacturing Engineering, or related Engineering degree.
- 2+ years of experience working directly with manufacturing in a production environment
- Experience in assembly manufacturing environments.
- 2+ years of factory flow and process modeling and simulations experience.
- 2+ years of experience leading continuous improvement and value stream mapping events.
- Strong analytic skills and a high degree of proficiency in data mining.
- Exceptional with Excel, manual data analysis and other data mining tools (Python, R, SQL).
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- Self-Starter.
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Operations Management, Construction Management, MSE and/or MBA.
- Lean Manufacturing Certification.
- Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.
- Experience transitioning development to production.
- Experience scaling operations from low volume to high volume manufacturing.
- Experience in aerospace manufacturing and/or facilities planning.
- Human rated space flight production experience.
- Hands-on experience with manufacturing processes.
If you feel qualified and interested in this immediate contract to hire role in the Seattle area (onsite) let's chat! The team at the Talent Mine COMES from the IT industry, and we love to serve our candidates as peers in the field. Let's help you land your next exciting adventure today!