Director Tooling Fabrication

Director Tooling Fabrication

Requirements

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in an engineering or manufacturing field or 10+ years in a leadership position in machining/fabrication.
• 15+ years experience with progressive responsibilities in manufacturing in an area such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, automotive, medical devices, power generation systems, semiconductors, or electronics.
• Experience in machining/manufacturing within the aerospace environment in production and/or prototyping environments with demonstrated hands on skills in multi-axis machining, turning, and grinding.
• 8+ years in a hands-on position in all the applications to manufacture parts like CNC programming, set up and running of all types of machine tools, part processing, heat treating, post processing, CAD/CAM, tooling and fixture design, EDM, and experience with all types of materials from aluminum through nickel based alloys.
• Quality mindset with special attention to safety and mission-critical product and/or manufacturing process attributes.
• 5+ years personnel leadership, management, and mentoring skills.
• 3+ years management of large budgets or profit/loss at a department, program, project or higher level(s).
• 3+ years project management, schedule management, and team leadership skills.
• Ability to oversee and guide root cause analysis efforts.
• Experience leading and managing teams on fast-paced, complex projects.
• Familiarity with best practices for certification, qualification, and training of manufacturing operations personnel.
• Understanding and utilization of production scheduling, MRP/ERP systems.
• Understanding and utilization of statistical process control.
• Adept in process definition, development, deployment, measurement, and improvement.
• Practiced with job-hazard analysis and other safety analysis practices.
• Skilled in customer relations and expectation management.
• Familiarity with best practices and tools related to manufacturing drawings, work orders, inventory systems, production control.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Oversee reliable and predictable production of machined and welded parts for launch and space vehicle subsystems at the Florida site.
• Lead multiple teams of personnel responsible for delivering on-time completion of development and production hardware.
• Establish and maintain systems of process control for machines, material, processes, tools, and people.
• Collaborate with internal customers and manufacturing planning teams and define capacity planning actions to meet customer needs and expectations; forecast and develop improvement plans for constrained work centers to achieve demand plan.
• Lead and develop the fabrication manufacturing leaders to include: recruiting, talent development, training, and coaching.
• Oversee and drive the measurement, analysis, reporting, and improvement of work center and team performance.
• Take ownership of interfaces with other sites and other business functions to drive improvements to increase the overall effectiveness of the manufacturing system across Blue Origin.
• Instill a culture of continuous improvement through opportunity identification, root cause analysis, and corrective actions to reduce cost and cycle times.
• Own all area KPI’s and supporting process improvements, continually raising the bar on performance expectations.
• Define, manage, plan, and monitor budgets and schedules for raw material, operational expenses, labor, and capital projects.
• Maintain manufacturing schedule and overcome barriers to meet customer expectations; collaborate with team members (across sites) to address capacity and scheduling conflicts.
• Participate in company-wide process definition and improvement for manufacturing processes, business processes, production planning, lessons learned, and other standards/processes as needed.
• Implement the Blue Production System to build a production framework that supports World-Class capabilities and fosters One Blue culture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree, MBA, or a degree in machining/tool & die is a plus.
• Experience managing high-mix, low-volume production activities.
• Hands-on experience planning and conducting hazardous or critical operations in a safe and effective manner.
• Experienced with the design, analysis, qualification, and production of manufactured components.
• Experience transitioning manufacturing capabilities from development/acquisition to production.
• Knowledge of fabrication processes, integration processes, systems engineering best practices, test, quality and configuration management systems.
• Experience managing facility level capital improvements and upgrades.