Senior UAV Product Engineer

Roboticsconnected; Lawrence (KS); On-site; USD 91,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

A product engineer III at AeroVironment sustains engineering support for UAV systems used in military and commercial applications. You will modify designs of structural components, electro-mechanical assemblies, payloads, and ground equipment while developing prototype hardware and conducting design verification testing.

You will also manage manufacturing drawings, bills of materials, and documentation, support reviews, and assist with project planning, supplier coordination, and production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Lean Six Sigma experience or Green Belt certification.
• 5-8 years of related experience in a similar role, including experience in an engineering design environment, including support of products in production.
• Experience with unmanned air vehicles is a plus; RF, digital and communications electronics design; PCB layout, schematics and assembly; CAD (Altium) including ASME Y14 drawing standards.
• Strong understanding of configuration management principles.
• Strong understanding of general engineering fundamentals, mathematics, physics, material properties, electronics, systems, software.
• Demonstrated understanding of requirements for building production assemblies, including documentation for use on production floor.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate across technical disciplines and organizations, including program management, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, suppliers and customers.
• Experienced and proficient with office software and computer-based productivity tools

Responsibilities

• Sustains engineering support for a product line.
• Manages product line configuration and change orders in Agile PLM system.
• Understands product design and features and is familiar with the manufacturing process.
• Acts as a technical point of contact for ongoing support and change initiation, including managing manufacturing and customer issues escalated to engineering.
• Assists in proposal and report writing, review of contracts for production orders.
• Helps coordinate the transition for new products and variants into production.
• Coordinates release and update of design documentation, BOMs, manufacturing procedures, product acceptance test procedures, and production tooling.
• Coordinates development, testing and release of product improvements and variants in cooperation with product line manager, design engineers and project managers.
• Provides component obsolescence management for the product line.
• Provides customer support for failure analysis, field bulletin technical content, general product information.
• Works with suppliers, purchasing and planning to ensure resolution of technical issues that impact production.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Lean Six Sigma

Engineering experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Altium CAD

Documentation & BOM

Manufacturing support

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Agile PLM

MS Office

Job description

A product engineer III at AeroVironment sustains engineering support for UAV systems used in military and commercial applications. You will modify designs of structural components, electro-mechanical assemblies, payloads, and ground equipment while developing prototype hardware and conducting design verification testing.

You will also manage manufacturing drawings, bills of materials, and documentation, support reviews, and assist with project planning, supplier coordination, and production