Millennium Space Systems · 1 hour ago
Manufacturing Manager - Second Shift
Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company, delivers affordable, high-performance space systems for exacting customers. The Manufacturing Manager will oversee the production of low earth orbit satellites, ensuring the execution of design for manufacturability while prioritizing personnel safety and product reliability. This role involves mentoring the manufacturing technician team, developing career plans, and optimizing manufacturing processes to enhance efficiency and output.
AerospaceSpace Travel
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary point of support for the manufacturing technician team
Provide mentorship and guidance to each member of the team via both frequent 1:1s and formal performance review periods
Establish career development plans and foster individual growth to unlock each member's maximum potential and facilitate their desired career trajectory
Advocate for the team and cultivate an environment where they can be successful
Manage communication within the team by providing context/rationale for higher level decisions
Develop cross-training initiatives, staffing plans, and a robust recruiting pipeline to support the growing needs of the business
Establish and increase the efficiency of business processes to maximize output, limit burden, and enable products to rapidly transition from engineering development to high rate production
Leverage cross-functional relationships to help identify improvement opportunities, align on priorities, and execute initiatives to reduce lead time, labor hours, etc
Leverage data to establish, monitor, and improve manufacturing metrics enveloping safety, quality, delivery, and cost
Enable manufacturing and supply chain autonomy by challenging requirements, simplifying work processes, and automating actions
Partner with peer engineering teams to implement design changes in response to manufacturing and supply chain issues, customer challenges, new vehicle architectures, and departmental standardization initiatives
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment
1+ years of experience leading technician teams
Experience working with various manufacturing execution systems
Preferred
Experience in the aerospace industry
Proficiency with PC Applications, especially Excel
Excellent written and Verbal Communications
Associate's degree (or equivalent) in business
Demonstrated ability to aggregate, visualize, and analyze data to make informed decisions (i.e. SQL, Excel, PowerBI, etc.)
Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing, electromechanical assembly, propulsion production, mechanisms fabrication, or structures build
Demonstrated ability to scale manufacturing rate capability
Company
Millennium Space Systems
Millennium Space Systems, a provider of agile, flight-proven small-satellite solutions.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2018-08-16Acquired
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