Production Engineer

Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. From our airborne work with sensors alerting warfighters to whats over the next hill to our autonomous maritime platforms protecting sea lanes and shores; our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe.

The Airborne Solutions Operations (ASO) of Leidos Defense Group currently has an opening for a Production Engineer to work in our Bridgewater VA office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Leidos this mission we provide aerial intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance platforms for todays warfighter.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide onsite production support for subcontractor act as manufacturing liaison between Leidos engineering and production facility.
• Support engineering tasks for lead manufacturing liaison which includes but are not limited to the following:

• • Mechanical design drafting and review
  • Create/Review formal documentation of issues & track solutions
  • Hardware manufacturing outsourcing and procurement
  • Design review for manufacturability
  • Quality assurance and quality control
  • Development of procedures and work instructions
  • Configuration management
  • Project scheduling and tasking
  • Program management support
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously utilizing sound project management principles to prioritize work to meet performance schedule and quality objective

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Aerospace Industrial Engineering (or equivalent) and minimum two (4) years of experience. Additional years experience may be used in lieu of a degree.
• Diverse engineering experience working in an agile (quick reaction) environment
• Experience using parametric 3D CAD software preferably SolidWorks
• Proficiency in MS Office suite
• Strong manufacturing process knowledge
• Experience designing structural components machinery and sheet metal products.
• Experience with low-volume/custom design and manufacturing.
• Experience with production planning creating Bills of Material and reviewing manufacturing discrepancies.
• Excellent communications skills to interface with customers and peers
• Strong multitasking and time management skills including working independently.
• Ability to address manufacturing issues from internal and external sources
• Eligible to obtain minimum of Secret clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• ISO9001 AS9100 Six Sigma or similar quality management system experience.
• Aircraft structures experience
• Active Secret clearance

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