Manufacturing Engineer/Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Optical/Xray)

Develop, update, and maintain programming of an automated optical inspection/automated x-ray inspection machine for the inspection of circuit card assemblies Perform data analysis of automated optical inspection/automated x-ray inspection machine results for metrics reporting and issue resolution Work as a process owner for the manufacturing of circuit card assemblies Develop processes, procedures, and assembly instructions for the build of circuit card assemblies Perform continuous improvement activities focused on cost/schedule savings during manufacturing Work with customers to provide manufacturing feedback, metrics and data reporting, and issue resolution Perform root cause and corrective action plans using techniques such as 5 whys, fishbone diagrams, etc Work directly with operators and other manufacturing engineers on the shop floor in a production environment Work with various electronics manufacturing equipment and processes to maintain production flow Provide technical project leadership for continuous improvement and root cause/corrective action projects Ability to work in a production environment Bachelor's Degree in a related STEM field with a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience; OR a Master's Degree with 0 years of relevant work experience; OR a PhD with 0 years of relevant work experience Experience with the design or build of circuit card assemblies Ability to obtain/maintain DOD Secret security clearance US Citizenship required. Bachelor's Degree in a related STEM field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience; OR a Master's Degree with 3 of more years of relevant work experience; OR a PhD with a minimum of 1 year(s) of relevant work experience Experience with the design or build of circuit card assemblies Experience using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools Ability to obtain/maintain DOD Secret security clearance US Citizenship required. Experience with automated optical inspection or other machine vision systems Experience with data structures and network architecture Experience with industry standards for the build and inspection of electronic assemblies including J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610 Experience in a manufacturing environment for circuit card assemblies Experience with the processes and equipment used to build circuit card assemblies Experience using Siemens Teamcenter as a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool Experience using SAP as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool Experience working hands-on with electronic parts and assemblies in a production environment Experience working with engineering drawings and parts lists using a Configuration Management (CM) system Experience using Lean Six Sigma techniques for continuous improvement activities Data analysis experience Active Secret clearance