Senior UAV Product Engineer

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

Job summary

AeroVironment is seeking a Product Engineer III to sustain engineering support for UAV systems for military and commercial applications. This role includes design modifications of structural components, electro-mechanical assemblies, payloads, ground equipment, launching systems, flight control actuators, prototype hardware development, and performing design verification testing.

You will manage manufacturing drawings and bills of materials, support design reviews, assist project managers with

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 a plus; RF, digital, and communications electronics design Electronics manufacturing troubleshooting PCB layout, schematics and assembly's Design/drafting/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 of 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 related to a product line.
• Manages product line configuration and change orders in Agile PLM system
• Understands product design and features, be familiar with the manufacturing process. Understands customer performance and configuration requirements for product
• 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 & report writing, review of contracts for production orders
• Helps coordinate the transition for new products and product variants into production
• Coordinates the release and update of engineering design documentation, operator manuals, bill of materials, manufacturing procedures, product acceptance test procedures, and production tooling and test equipment
• 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 design

RF & electronics

Configuration management

Altium CAD

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related field

Tools

Agile PLM

Altium CAD

ASME Y14

Job description

AeroVironment is seeking a Product Engineer III to sustain engineering support for UAV systems for military and commercial applications. This role includes design modifications of structural components, electro-mechanical assemblies, payloads, ground equipment, launching systems, flight control actuators, prototype hardware development, and performing design verification testing.

You will manage manufacturing drawings and bills of materials, support design reviews, assist project managers with