Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Secret Clearance, DFM

NANA Regional Corporation; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Competitive pay

Growth opportunities

Excellent retirement options

Job summary

Akima Mission Optimization (AMO) in the United States seeks a Manufacturing Engineer who will provide technical leadership across product realization, process development, and production support. You will drive manufacturability assessments, develop processes, and lead readiness reviews to ensure safe, efficient production of complex products and integrated systems.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and Program Management to deliver repeatable production

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related ABET‑accredited engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of manufacturing engineering or related systems engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain a secret security clearance.
• Experience transitioning products from development/prototype into repeatable production.
• Demonstrated success working in cross‑functional engineering and production teams.

Responsibilities

• Participate in product realization planning from conception through delivery.
• Evaluate designs for manufacturability, producibility, assembly, testability, cost, quality, and production risk.
• Lead or support MRRs, PRRs, and contribute to SETRs.
• Identify manufacturing requirements, constraints, tooling needs, equipment needs, risks, and production capabilities early in development.
• Develop manufacturing strategies for prototype, LRIP, and full‑rate production.
• Support transition of products from development to controlled production.
• Develop, document, implement, and maintain manufacturing and assembly processes.
• Create process flows, routings, work instructions, bills of material, and tooling specifications.
• Define manufacturing methods, equipment, tooling, fixtures, materials, and process controls.
• Establish critical process parameters and performance monitoring methods.
• Evaluate process capability, repeatability, throughput, yield, and capacity.
• Lead process qualification and validation activities.
• Identify opportunities for automation or advanced manufacturing technologies.
• Provide manufacturing engineering input throughout design and requirements development.
• DFM/DFA assessments and review drawings for producibility.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering disciplines to resolve production issues.
• Provide senior-level support to manufacturing and assembly operations.
• Investigate production problems, defects, process failures, and nonconformances.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective-action activities.
• Develop and implement corrective/preventive actions.
• Evaluate deviations, substitutions, and process changes for technical impact.
• Support MRB activities as required.
• Provide technical guidance to production staff and junior engineers.
• Ensure manufacturing processes stay aligned with approved configuration baselines.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to define inspection points and controls.
• Apply statistical tools to evaluate process capability and performance.
• Support FAI, source inspections, acceptance testing, and customer quality activities.
• Participate in corrective and preventive action programs and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support compliance with QMS and customer requirements.
• Lead initiatives to improve cost, quality, schedule, throughput, yield, safety, and efficiency.
• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, SPC and CI methods.
• Analyze manufacturing data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Develop business cases for capital equipment, tooling, automation, and facility improvements.
• Establish and monitor manufacturing performance metrics.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

Systems engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

DFM/DFA

Process improvement

Education

Master’s degree in engineering (ABET‑accredited)

Tools

Statistical analysis tools

FMEA

PPAP

SETR

Job description

Akima Mission Optimization (AMO) in the United States seeks a Manufacturing Engineer who will provide technical leadership across product realization, process development, and production support. You will drive manufacturability assessments, develop processes, and lead readiness reviews to ensure safe, efficient production of complex products and integrated systems.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and Program Management to deliver repeatable production