# Manufacturing Specialist

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Chesapeake, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $59,150.00 - $106,925.00
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Leidos Defense Group has an opening for a Manufacturing Specialist at its Chesapeake, VA facility. This role involves using manufacturing expertise to support Environmental equipment builds for the US Navy. The selected candidate will be part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of material planners, buyers, management, technicians, quality, contracts, finance, and external suppliers and subcontractors.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Apply manufacturing expertise to provide guidance to Leidos shop technician staff and external fabrication subcontractors based on US NAVY build-to-print fabrication drawings and past historical build files within an ISO-9001 environment.

- Lead development of new bills of material or use of legacy bills of material to select vendors and requisition material within the Leidos approved procurement system.

- Maintain configuration management of the equipment builds.

- Lead mechanical review of incoming material or process non-conformities and develop workable documented resolution.

- Develop technical rationale and communicate with US NAVY civilian engineers when drawing discrepancies are discovered during the manufacturing process.

- Upkeep of 'Technical Record Book' to track key component/equipment/design decisions.

- Assist in review/development of illustrations, parts breakdown, and bill-of materials for technical manual or user manuals and training material of equipment.

- Assist program manager and site manager to review applicability of 'new work opportunities' and participate in cost exercises, development of work statements, and final technical proposal.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 5+ years manufacturing work experience

- Ability to understand and interpret US NAVY or Industry drawing requirements

- Experience with 2D and 3D drafting software packages

- Ability to develop work instruction packages, manufacturing work orders, and route cards

- Expertise with Microsoft Office applications

- Familiarity with project management and scheduling software like MS PROJECT

- Clean background to support work with DOD Secret security clearance, as required

- Familiarity with mechanical engineering reference material

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience in developing or working with Bills of Material, ordering and tracking material, and releasing material for manufacturing

- Exceptional organizational and documentation skills

- Strong work ethic with ability to recognize opportunities for improvement and document corrective action

- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines

- Comfort with discussing engineered components, quality, and work schedules with external suppliers and customers

## Skills

### Required
- manufacturing
- ISO-9001
- US NAVY
- Auto-Cad
- Solid Works
- Inventor
- Microsoft Office
- MS PROJECT
- mechanical engineering

### Nice to have
- Bills of Material
- project management
- organizational skills
- documentation skills

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