Manufacturing Engineering Manager (Aerospace)

Location: Wichita, Kansas, United States; onsite manufacturing engineering role.

Salary: $105,300–$161,450 per year, based on experience, qualifications, market, and business considerations.

Company

hirify.global designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including fuselages, pylons, nacelles, and wing components, for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, with a focus on composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

What you will do

• Manage manufacturing engineers, technicians, production specialists, manufacturing planners, and multi-shift operational support staff, including union-represented employees.
• Develop and execute business plans, policies, procedures, organizational strategies, technical strategies, manufacturing plans, and production schedules.
• Coordinate with industrial, design, stress, liaison, materials and process engineering, manufacturing, tooling, machine programming, facilities, and supply teams.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing build plans, conduct root cause analysis, perform trade and cost studies, and guide build process activities.
• Lead process improvements, approve technical approaches and processes, use production metrics to drive decisions, and ensure quality, safety, compliance, and schedule performance.
• Train new team members, manage resources and suppliers, communicate with stakeholders and senior leadership, and lead solutions to complex manufacturing problems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing production environment.
• Critical thinking and analytical skills for developing solutions to assembly operations problems and troubleshooting.
• Ability to manage projects and lead or participate in cross-functional engineering initiatives across multiple disciplines and management levels.
• Ability to communicate effectively, act decisively, and demonstrate innovation and resourcefulness.
• Knowledge of business and production metrics, organizational structures, and reporting.
• Knowledge of standard business software, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints, build plans, CATIA, and IVT.
• Knowledge of SAP or other large-scale MRP systems.

Nice to have

• Engineering, manufacturing, or technology degree.
• Experience in business management functions.
• Experience with Lean principles, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints.
• Experience with RCCA, APQP, PFMEA, and PFD.
• Experience with composite fabrication and structural assembly processes.
• Experience with manufacturing build plans, process control documents, manufacturing datasets, graphics, and work instructions.
• Experience implementing advanced manufacturing and engineering technologies in production systems.
• Knowledge of demand management, APICS supply chain principles, and sales, inventory, and operations planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Drug-free workplace with post-offer testing when policy criteria are met.
• Eligible employees may receive health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Benefits and eligibility may vary by geographic location, date of hire, and collective bargaining agreements.
• Eligible employees joining the Kansas team may receive a $5,000 Kansas aviation tax credit for up to five years.