Senior Spacecraft Production Systems Architect

Telemetry Today LLC; Bothell (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Portal Space Systems in Bothell, WA is seeking a Principal Production Systems Architect to own the vision and implementation of a world-class production system architecture for aerospace manufacturing.

You will collaborate with enterprise IT, design, manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure tight integration of PLM, ERP, and MES, while maintaining DFx, MBOM/EBOM reconciliation, and SOX compliance. This hands-on role requires quick decisions and mentorship of engineers.

Qualifications

• Seven + years of experience defining aerospace production systems including MES implementation and production process requirements.
• Demonstrated expert experience of aerospace manufacturing processes.
• Strong CAD, PLM and MES experience in defining new and mature production system artifacts and interactions.
• Experience in manufacturing process fundamentals as well as adjacent design and analysis principles as they relate to manufacturing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build a bold vision for the production system architecture that will be the foundation of how other teams interact with and support the production system itself.
• Author command documentation for design standards, SOPs, process definition.
• Define MBOM/EBOM reconciliation requirements.
• Ensure system support of financial reporting tools including audit trails and SOX compliance.
• Define how manufacturing engineering will interact with the PLM system and what configuration control looks like for production.
• Create manufacturing artifacts to act as a single source of truth for process and production requirements as they relate to spacecraft hardware design.
• Own the definition and application of DFx principles ensuring producibility and performance targets.
• Define best practices for CAD/PLM usage to facilitate production hardware and processes.
• Ensure seamless transfer of manufacturing data between subsystems and avoid manual data entry where possible.
• Ensure that automation connectors maintain contextualization with orders and serials.

Skills

Aerospace production systems

CAD and PLM experience

MES implementation

SOX compliance knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

GDT/ASME Y14.5 knowledge

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

ERP systems

MBOM/EBOM reconciliation

Job description

Portal Space Systems in Bothell, WA is seeking a Principal Production Systems Architect to own the vision and implementation of a world-class production system architecture for aerospace manufacturing.

You will collaborate with enterprise IT, design, manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure tight integration of PLM, ERP, and MES, while maintaining DFx, MBOM/EBOM reconciliation, and SOX compliance. This hands-on role requires quick decisions and mentorship of engineers.