Manufacturing Systems Engineer

at  Leidos

Description
Leidos is seeking a Manufacturing Systems Engineer to join our defense sector manufacturing support team. Location for work is Huntsville, Alabama. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Manufacturing Engineer to oversee standardization of our Solumina MES (Manufacturing Execution System).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Candidate will have a BS degree in engineering from an accredited university and have at least 4 years of experience creating and maintaining Process Plans in Solumina.
• Hands-on experience with PLM/ERP/MES software.
• Demonstrated experience with serialized components requiring non-conformance dispositioning.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all members of Production and Analytics teams, including drafting SOW’s to develop KPI reports.
• Experience with phantom/synthetic items on mBOM’s and the understanding of how they impact MRP.
• Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area.
• Candidate must be a US Citizen and must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a Final Secret Clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to query your own data and perform your own analysis using Excel VBA, Power BI, or SQL.
• Experience in modern digital engineering tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Agile, and Scrum.
• MRP experience with unit of measure conversions and different order policies.
• Industry 4.0 and IIoT methods for electronically performing data collection into the MES software to poka-yoke the processes and satisfy product traceability requirements.

This role will set MES standards across our five manufacturing facilities with respect to: process plan templates, operation dependencies guidance, data collection methods, discrepancy procedures, serialization, runtime/set-up time methodology on routings, etc. This is a key role to enable our defense sector to scale the business with standard processes in our Solumina MES software.
The successful candidate will need to have several years of experience with Solumina, and they need to have the right personality to work with the production teams to make sure their needs are identified and captured in the SOP’s. The candidate will also be a SME that helps train our 60 plus ME’s across our manufacturing facilities.