- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
- >5 years’ relevant work experience in a high technology environment (Aerospace, Military, Automotive, etc.)
- Demonstrated relevant leadership experience
- Familiarity with government contractual procurement procedures, standards and quality requirements
- Exemplary verbal/written communication skills required for multi-faceted interactions with all levels of personnel within the organization, as well as any and all outside agents, including but not limited to, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential job candidates, etc.
- Highly computer literate, with MS Office/PC expertise, and demonstrated experience with applicable systems, programs, equipment, etc.
- Must be a US Citizen
- Drive the advancement of the company’s Production Engineering capabilities and product streamlining initiatives. Support the team to execute on manufacturing readiness initiatives for new and legacy programs
- Kick off and review fixture designs for new products. Perform and review stress calculations, tolerance stackups, and ergonomics for fixture designs
- Generate procedures, processes, and fixtures for product lines to scale with the growth targets of the organization
- Utilize existing tools to achieve improved process capabilities, including, but not limited to, dynamic analysis (MATLAB), requirements traceability (DOORS), FEA structural and thermal analysis (Pro/Mechanica), CAD/CAM (Pro/E), and internally developed analysis techniques (Valve Design)
- Support proposals, program costing, operational efficiencies, and effectiveness (cost reduction) programs. Manage project tracking and reporting
- Generate and review work orders/routing steps for new and existing products. Cross-communicate with other operations functions to set an accurate capacity and production flow
- Generate and review complex assembly procedures for new and existing valve models, including the design of novel fixturing for new products
- Handle constantly changing requirements in an organized fashion to meet challenging design requirements, delivery dates, and cost goals
- Actively participate in the development of Marotta business and engineering strategy to achieve company financial and business goals
- Develop, manage, and maintain engineering knowledge, expertise, and internal and external resources to support past, current and developing products and services
- Monitor the progress of Projects, take action to keep on track (time, money, quality) and make adjustments when needed
- Provide information to internal and external customers on project progress and latest expectations
- Recruit, hire, orient, manage, develop, motivate, recognize, reward and where necessary discipline and terminate personnel
- Develop external relationships with customers, consultants and vendors to extend the engineering competencies and resources to address Marotta business needs
- Address potential issues proactively and apply real-time problem solving skills to achieve prompt resolution. Continually address improvement opportunities
- Prepare and manage project and department budgets
- Allocate resources, materials and the scheduling of equipment for maximum utilization of production facilities and personnel
- Manage training requirements of applicable internal team members (and external, when applicable).
- Bring initiatives and activities to closure in a timely manner through effective interaction with individuals, both internal and external to the Marotta organization (as required)
- Manage and facilitate training, as needed, to maintain a cross-trained workforce and to support operational goals and objectives
- Ensure self, and personnel company-wide, are abiding by all safety, quality, housekeeping and company policies/procedures to ensure compliance to all regulatory and internal system requirements
- Promote and foster a positive and cooperative work environment through effective communication at all levels internal and external to the organization
- Organize and lead team meetings, improvement initiatives/programs, etc. to provide constructive recommendations and initiate actions to support company initiatives/goals.
- Consistently demonstrate commitment to company values
- Keep Executive management informed of area activities and of any significant problems.
- Assume responsibility for related duties as required or assigned
- Ensure that work area and work areas of direct reports are clean, secure, and well maintained
- Complete special projects and miscellaneous assignments as required