# Leader of Manufacturing - Harness

**Company**: Millennium Space Systems
**Location**: El Segundo, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $181,900 - 267,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Leader of Manufacturing, Harness oversees aspects of satellite component product assembly, test, and delivery to satellite integration. The department consists of manufacturing engineers, operations research, and technicians.

Responsibilities:

- Provide leadership to manufacturing personnel

- Ensure product is manufactured safely to the highest quality standards and service levels while achieving cost improvement goals

- Develop and maintain an understanding of the health of Manufacturing and Production

- Assist with Millennium factory build efforts

- Define and execute continuous improvement strategies and initiatives

- Manage manufacturing engineers and technicians

- Lead and execute tasks required to transition hardware build from low-rate initial production to higher rate production

- Support proposals for future contracts

- Implement AS9100 Quality practices

- Partner with Boeing Space Mission Systems Operations counterparts

- Manage budgets and capital expenditures

- Communicate state of the company to manufacturing and production personnel

Harness Initiatives:

- Direct the end-to-end production of complex satellite wiring harnesses

- Oversee the specialized assembly of electrical interconnects

- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure harness designs are optimized for manufacturability

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the harness shop

- Provide technical mentorship and leadership to Harness technicians and manufacturing engineers

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering or related field

- 15+ years’ experience in manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, test engineering materials and process engineering, or similar field in Aerospace, Automotive, or Commercial industries

- Subject matter expertise in one of the following areas: harnessing, printed circuit board assemblies, structural assembly, structural bonding, mechanisms, or composite honeycomb machining

- High level of proficiency in MRP/ERP systems

- Knowledge of satellite manufacturing engineering principles and concepts

- Experience working with a union represented workforce

- Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

- Active TS/SCI clearance

- Harnessing SME & Technicians

- Wiring/Cabling Focus

- Low-rate to High Rate (Harness)

- Technical problem-solving skills

- 10+ years of industry experience working in satellite manufacturing

- Demonstrated ability to scale manufacturing rate capability

Total Rewards:

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid time off

## Skills

### Required
- MRP/ERP systems
- satellite manufacturing engineering
- harnessing
- printed circuit board assemblies
- structural assembly
- structural bonding
- mechanisms
- composite honeycomb machining

### Nice to have
- TS/SCI clearance
- wiring/cabling focus
- low-rate to high rate harness
- technical problem-solving skills
- satellite manufacturing experience

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