Role Overview
The Lifecycle Manufacturing Engineer owns the product’s manufacturing strategy from early design through production and sustaining, ensuring manufacturability and alignment with quality, cost, and delivery objectives. This role defines manufacturing requirements, identifies and mitigates risks, and guides design and manufacturing tradeoffs across the product lifecycle. Working closely with Design Engineering and Plant Manufacturing Engineering, the Lifecycle Manufacturing Engineer leads manufacturing transfer to the site, where Plant Manufacturing Engineering owns process implementation, qualification, control, and continuous improvement.
What You’ll Do...
- 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.
You have...
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field
Experience
- 5+ years of manufacturing engineering experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, propulsion, turbomachinery, additive manufacturing, or complex mechanical systems environments
Skills & Competencies
- Strong CAD skillset (Siemens NX and Teamcenter environment preferred)
- Experience supporting products through NPI and production environments
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes such as tight tolerance machining, assembly, additive manufacturing, welding, or related processes
- Experience working cross-functionally with design engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain teams
- Experience developing manufacturing process flows, PFMEAs, Control Plans, standard work, and work instructions
- Demonstrated experience driving DFM/DFA and manufacturing readiness activities
- Strong problem-solving, technical communication, and organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced development and production environment
- The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance is required. U.S. Citizenship is required, as only U.S. Citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Nice to have...
- Experience with aerospace propulsion systems or rotating machinery
- Experience in additive manufacturing environments
- Experience scaling products from prototype to production
- Knowledge of GD&T and advanced manufacturing methods
- Experience supporting low-rate initial production and production ramp activities
- Experience supporting AS9100 / IATF16949 manufacturing environments
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System, Theory of Constraints, or similar production-system methodologies
- Prior experience in a high-growth or fast-paced engineering organization
If this sounds like you, please submit an application with your resume. This could be the opportunity you are looking for to expand your skills, contribute to a winning team, and work with talented people who love what they do and take pride in our mission.
Beehive Industries offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes group Medical, Dental, Life, and Short and Long-Term disability coverage from day one. We also offer a generous 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a Company match. Every role at Beehive Industries is bonus eligible and will also receive equity in the company.
Beehive Industries is committed to full compliance with applicable anti-discrimination laws. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We strive to create an inclusive work environment and will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Beehive Industries is dedicated to Powering American Defense by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.
Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Knoxville, Tennessee facility.