What You'll Do
- Design for Manufacturability: Perform design reviews (informal and formal) with the design teams, giving feedback on costs, tolerancing, order of operations, and Bill of Materials structure.
- Design and Tooling selection: Design custom tooling for work-holding, transportation and testing applications. Source COTS tooling for the use in the factory. Design and implement tooling control (5S) to maintain a clean and well organized factory floor. Fabricate your own tools (3D printing, 3-axis Mill, lathe, etc.)
- Process Creation and Optimization: Design, from the ground up, the manufacturing process for our custom drones, and robotic systems designing for scalability and seasonality. Implement production tracking software/processes to guide, control, and orchestrate manufacturing processes.
- Quality Planning: Decide where testing must occur on the production line, while balancing risk reduction, cost, and design flexibility. Design and build test setups and data recording.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment
- Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.) Work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus.
- A genuine interest in manufacturing and thirst for learning
- Experience and competence in Solidworks, NX, or other CAD software
- Extensive use and understanding of ERP, MES, and MRP softwareExperience transitioning products from design to production as part of a cross functional team.
- Experience interpreting and creating component and assembly drawings to ASME Y14.5 standards
- Experience designing tooling in a manufacturing environment
Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ years of hands on manufacturing experience in a fast paced environment
- Degree in a technical field preferred such as engineering, math, or a hard science
- Software scripting experience in Python (or other languages)
- Experience with deploying custom robotics systems and automation inside and outside the factory.
- Six Sigma Belt
- Experience sourcing production parts from the domestic supply chain in commodities like PCBAs, composites, machined components, sheet metal, etc.