Senior Manufacturing Engineer

About Epirus: Epirus is a high-growth technology company that develops solid-state, human-safe directed energy systems that enable unprecedented counter-electronics effects and power management solutions to enhance power efficiency in defense and commercial electronics. With a constant emphasis on innovation, we are redefining modern power systems to increase the velocity of change for our customers and bring tomorrow's capabilities to life, today. 

 

Job objective: This is an exciting role in a growing company. The ideal candidate for the position is someone who has experience in product development, manufacturing, electronics, and mechanical assembly. The role will lead the development of a manufacturing execution system (MES) including focus on unique and novel manufacturing capabilities. In this role, you will work closely with an exceptional engineering team and support daily production activities. This person will be responsible to create and implement digital work instructions, procedures used to standardize workflow that optimizes the production process. 

 

Duties: 

• Set standards for design and manufacturing with cross-functional engineering teams.  Drive design updates to improve manufacturability. 

• Evaluate and implement software automation solutions for test stations, collaborating with test and systems teams   

• Lead in the structuring and evolution of the manufacturing execution system including the setup of manufacturing work center architecture and product flow for testing  

• Participate in development of new factory and introduction of new product lines  

• Evaluate non-conformances realized in hardware testing and implement solutions with test and engineering organizations 

• Develop, demonstrate, and verify that innovative production processes are ready for production 

• Work in a fast paced agile environment and adapt to evolving design and production challenges 

• Create KPI’s and other metrics that provide data to drive decisions on design and process changes that support program cost and delivery goals. 

• Provide inputs to manufacturing plans and operation strategy; regularly prepare and present data to upper management 

• Participation in daily, weekly production meetings and focus on resolving manufacturing defects and yield related discrepancies 

• Interface with production technician, engineering team and leadership daily 

• Develop training materials for manufacturing engineering team and drive tasking in weekly scrum meetings  

• Train and coach technician team on new processes or to improve quality  

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Software engineering, Systems Engineering or related discipline 

• 2+ years of experience in manufacturing or process engineering 

• Expert in documenting detailed assembly instructions with 3D models, pictures,  diagrams and text 

• Experience with scaling low-volume production to high volume 

• 3D modeling design experience 

• Basic familiarity with MES systems 

• Knowledge of Environmental, Health and Safety elements 

• Strong written and oral communication skills 

• Collaborative; capable of working across all levels of the organization 

• US Citizen and/or Permanent Resident (future security clearance may be required) 

 

Desired Qualifications: 

 

• Hands-on experience developing software in a programming language such as Python