Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Space Vehicle Integration

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the vehicle-level build flow for both production vehicle lines: define assembly and integration sequence, station and zone content, takt, and the work instructions and travelers that execute it for each vehicle line.
• Own the post-environmental close-out stations — weight and balance, mass properties verification, sealing, final mechanical close-out and ship preparation.
• Develop and qualify vehicle integration processes: precision fastening and torque control, bonded and shimmed joints, mechanism and propulsion module installation, harness routing and installation, and alignment to…
• Drive Design for Manufacturability and Assembly into vehicle-level designs before CDR — access, fastener reach, tool clearance, integration order, and testability of the assembled vehicle — partnering directly with…
• Act as a principal stakeholder in deploying Anduril's Manufacturing Development Process (MDP) on this program. The Manager and Senior Manager of Manufacturing Engineering are the full process owners;
• Mature manufacturing readiness artifacts concurrently with design readiness milestones — producibility assessments, process and tooling plans, build flow definition and manufacturing readiness evidence timed to PDR and…
• Adopt and master our manufacturing execution and product lifecycle toolchain — Foundry and Teamcenter — and use it as the system of record for build definition, work instruction authoring, as-built records and…
• Specify and deploy mechanical ground support equipment and tooling: handling and lift fixtures, rotation and transport fixtures, integration stands, alignment tooling and torque tooling, including custom design in CAD.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Aerospace, Mechanical, Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of manufacturing engineering experience in aerospace, space, defense or another high-reliability industry, including 4+ years on final assembly and integration of complete vehicles, spacecraft or comparably…
• Personally owned the build flow for at least one vehicle-level or major-assembly integration line — sequence definition, station content, work instructions and travelers — and can walk through how you built it and what…
• Hands-on depth in mechanical integration: precision fastening and torque control, bonded or shimmed joints, mechanism installation, harness routing and installation, and alignment to metrology-defined datums (laser…
• Experience with weight and balance or mass properties verification and final close-out operations on flight or comparably high-consequence hardware.
• Cleanroom manufacturing experience with contamination control and FOD prevention discipline (ISO 7 or cleaner).
• Hands-on fluency with a manufacturing execution system and a PLM system as the system of record — build definition, work instruction or work order authoring, as-built records and production data.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance