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