Senior Lifecycle Manufacturing Engineer - Aerospace Propulsion

Beehive Industries, LLC; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Life, and disability—

401(k) retirement plan with company 1:

Equity in the company

Bonus eligible

Job summary

Beehive Industries is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Life-Cycle, to own the product’s manufacturing strategy from design to production. You will define requirements, mitigate risks, and guide tradeoffs with Design Engineering and Plant Manufacturing Engineering across the lifecycle.

The role emphasizes DFM/DFA, process readiness, and manufacturing transfer to the Knoxville site, with focus on cost, yield, and schedule alignment. U.S. security clearance eligibility is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing engineering strategy and execution readiness for assigned products, modules, or components.
• Drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) collaboration with Design Engineering teams.
• Define manufacturing strategy, process intent, manufacturing requirements, tolerance strategy, and tooling concepts in partnership with Design Engineering and Plant Manufacturing Engineering.
• Lead manufacturing planning and readiness activities from NPI through production transition.
• Partner with Plant Manufacturing Engineering teams to support process implementation and production scale-up.
• Identify and resolve manufacturing risks, technical issues, and production constraints.
• Drive trade studies and manufacturing decisions related to cost, yield, throughput, quality, and producibility.
• Support root cause investigations and corrective actions for manufacturing and quality issues.
• Coordinate across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and program management teams.
• Drive product-level manufacturing improvement through cost, yield, cycle-time, producibility, and cross-COE trade studies in partnership with Plant Manufacturing Engineering.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing strategies, process flows, manufacturing requirements, technical standards, and work-transfer documentation.
• Serve as the manufacturing representative on Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and support program reviews and milestone activities
• Support capacity planning and manufacturing scalability initiatives for production growth
• Assess manufacturing impacts of engineering and configuration changes, including producibility, tooling, qualification, inspection, cost, capacity, and production risk.
• Lead manufacturing participation in APQP activities, including DFMEA review, Characteristic Matrix development, manufacturing risk identification, and production-readiness planning; partner with Plant Manufacturing Engineering and Quality on Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEAs, Control Plans, SPC, and process capability activities.

Skills

DFM & DFA collaboration

Cross-functional collaboration

Process troubleshooting

Strong CAD skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Aerospace Engineering or related field

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

Job description

Beehive Industries is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Life-Cycle, to own the product’s manufacturing strategy from design to production. You will define requirements, mitigate risks, and guide tradeoffs with Design Engineering and Plant Manufacturing Engineering across the lifecycle.

The role emphasizes DFM/DFA, process readiness, and manufacturing transfer to the Knoxville site, with focus on cost, yield, and schedule alignment. U.S. security clearance eligibility is required.