Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer

PPG's Aerospace Business is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Huntsville, AL. The Huntsville manufacturing facility is a complex, job-shop environment where simultaneous production is in progress on hundreds of product designs using a wide variety of complex technologies. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will support multiple operations involved in the assembly of aircraft transparencies. You will cover all areas of Safety, Quality, Manufacturing Performance Improvement, Process and Capital Improvement, and Personal Growth. This is an onsite position reporting to the Manufacturing & Process Engineering Lead.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to production teams. Reference technical documentation, analyze data, and utilize critical thinking to resolve problems and provide daily direction.

• Serve as the local subject matter expert on assigned processes and equipment.

• Manage small-to-medium sized process improvement projects. Evaluate and implement new technologies, equipment, materials, tools, processes, and procedures.

• Optimize existing equipment and processes. Reduce scrap, downtime, and manufacturing costs. Increase process/equipment capacity.

• Modernize the manufacturing processes by introducing automation technologies to improve capacity and reduce product variability.

• Improve process/product data collection capabilities to improve data visibility and facilitate decision making.

• Lead Root Cause/Corrective Action efforts to identify and eliminate defects and product variability.

• Create and revise work instructions for manufacturing processes. Document experiments, projects, and RCCA activities.

Qualifications

• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering required, with preference for Mechanical, Manufacturing, or similar disciplines.

• 3 years of experience in a Manufacturing Engineering role or similar required.

• Experience working on a production floor required.

• Familiarity with interpreting technical documentation, including drawings/blueprints, bills of materials, material specs, operating procedures, and equipment technical manuals.

• Experience with any of the following is a plus: discrete manufacturing, glass processing, composite part layup, PLCs, robotics/automation, clean rooms, lamination, thin-film coatings, polymer films, aviation industry requirements/standards (AS9100), Minitab or similar statistical software packages, Six Sigma principles, ERP systems

About us:

Here at PPG we make it happen, and we seek candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our values, with the commitment and drive to strive today to do better than yesterday - everyday.

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