Senior Avionics Production Lead

f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a; Dallas (TX); Presencial; USD 92.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Shield AI seeks a Production Supervisor to lead avionics and electrical assembly technicians, integration, functional testing, and troubleshooting for advanced autonomous aircraft programs. You will build the teams, processes, and disciplined environments needed for rapid prototyping and flight-ready hardware, collaborating across Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Production Planning.

The role requires hands-on leadership in fast-paced manufacturing, ability to grow technician

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Engineering, Technology, Analytics) or equivalent technical experience in avionics/aerospace production.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience leading technicians or teams in aerospace/defense/advanced manufacturing settings.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with evolving priorities.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain/maintain a security clearance.

Responsabilidades

• Lead technicians performing avionics and electrical assembly, installation, integration, functional testing, troubleshooting, rework, inspection support, and production or flight-ready activities.
• Oversee work assignment, workload prioritization, coaching, mentoring, training, performance feedback, cross-training, policy enforcement, and development of daily and weekly operating plans.
• Maintain control of manufacturing and integration environments, ensuring safety, workmanship standards, calibration, tool control, serialized hardware traceability, nonconformance processes, quality requirements, and configuration-management compliance.
• Guide disciplined troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across electrical, electronic, wiring, sensor, power, and data-interface systems.
• Read, interpret, and apply harness and PCBA schematics, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, ICDs, BOMs, work instructions, travelers, test procedures, and other config-controlled docs.
• Use production/test data to identify risks, drive continuous improvement, and elevate issues appropriately.
• Lead production-readiness execution for prototype to flight-ready VBAT hardware/software from engineering release through delivery.
• Develop and manage prototype/pre-production build schedules, readiness milestones, risks, dependencies, and recovery plans.
• Support first-article and pilot builds, capture lessons learned, and update docs, tooling, processes, and training before broader release.
• Partner with Manufacturing Eng., Quality Eng., and Production Planning to ensure readiness and complete documentation, BOMs, test procedures, and inspection criteria.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Aerospace manufacturing

Analytical thinking

Communication

Security clearance eligible

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technical field

Descripción del empleo

Shield AI seeks a Production Supervisor to lead avionics and electrical assembly technicians, integration, functional testing, and troubleshooting for advanced autonomous aircraft programs. You will build the teams, processes, and disciplined environments needed for rapid prototyping and flight-ready hardware, collaborating across Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Production Planning.

The role requires hands-on leadership in fast-paced manufacturing, ability to grow technician