Manufacturing engineer

Azure Summit Technology is a mature, growing small business with locations in Melbourne, Florida, and Fairfax, Virginia. Azure develops and delivers high-performance RF hardware, firmware, and software products, and innovative, practical, multi-function RF systems solutions that address emerging missions of national importance for customers across the Department of Defense. We are a diverse team of highly qualified RF systems engineers and mission subject matter experts (SMEs) with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, RF, hardware, software, firmware, and systems engineering, working together within a creative, innovative, and highly collaborative culture, to deliver cutting edge solutions for our customers. To do this, we hire people with a passion to succeed. We look for problem solvers. People who have unique perspectives and diverse experience.

Are you in?

Do you work well in a team environment and on your own as an individual contributor? Do you know how to set the bar high and achieve goals for yourself and bring others along with you? Do you work hard and play hard? Do you want to help the company succeed and build your skill set and further your career at the same time? Azure Summit Technology just might be the place for you.

What do we do?

Azure Summit Technology provides a wide range of multi-channel, software-defined radio solutions for applications including surveillance, communications, radar, direction finding, emitter location, and interference cancellation. Systems can be tailored to meet a variety of requirements for bandwidth, dynamic range, number of channels, and computational resources. Supported platforms range from resource-constrained small UAVs and wearable devices to manned aircraft and submarines. Azure also offers innovative signal processing solutions to challenging problems in the realm of radio frequency spectrum awareness.

What will you do?

Azure Summit Technology is currently seeking a Manufacturing Engineer. The selected candidate will be part of a dynamic, growing, cross-functional, and geographically distributed team. This position is located on-site at our Melbourne, FL, facility with overnight travel to Melbourne, Florida; Baltimore, Maryland; and other locations as needed. Your future team has worked together to produce the following job description:

Responsibilities for this job may include:

• Conducts producibility analysis on new and existing technical data packages
• Develops the manufacturing plan architecture and implements continuous improvements
• Optimizes facility layouts to ensure throughput requirements are met
• Directly supports manufacturing personnel with assembly and integration issues
• Dispositions hardware nonconformances
• Creates and updates manufacturing work instructions
• Solicits input from production personnel and implements improvements
• Redlines drawings, test procedures, work instructions and other engineering media
• Supports the Engineering Change Notice (ECN) process and assesses changes for manufacturing impact
• Deploys lean best practices
• Provides guidance and on job training to personnel on manufacturing best practices
• Designs and implements tooling to support production activities
• Reduces cost and improves quality using RCCA, Lean, and Six Sigma techniques

Basic Requirements

• US citizenship, due to the nature of the work and contract requirement

• Active DoD SECRET security clearance, due to contract requirement

• 3 years’ experience working in an engineering discipline supporting manufacturing

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or another relevant field

Preferred Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI Clearance

• Master’s in manufacturing engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or another relevant field

• 5+ years’ experience in an engineering role defining, implementing, and sustaining a manufacturing build architecture

• Experience using CAD based engineering and design software (e.g., CATIA, SolidWorks, CREO, etc.)

• Proven experience with root cause corrective action and improvement initiatives focused on cost reduction, quality improvements and increased customer satisfaction

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to interact efficiently with peers and customers

Azure Summit Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Azure Summit Technology provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. Azure Summit Technology expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment or discrimination based on any of the characteristics mentioned above. Improper interference with the ability of other employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated. To request accommodation, contact Julia Bergeman, , .