Production Engineering Manager - Tooling Organization

* Proven ability to develop and sustain customer and stakeholder relationships.
* Strong communicator with experience presenting technical approaches and status to leadership.
* Track record of driving process improvements and implementing scalable production solutions.
* Hands-on technical credibility combined with effective people leadership and talent development.
* Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with mixed production and development activity.
* Provide technical leadership and set engineering and tooling design standards, processes, and technical approaches for the tooling organization.
* Maintain close connections with other BSL engineering teams and manufacturing operations to ensure tooling products and services meet customer needs and schedule commitments.
* Monitor and ensure compliance to first-time quality, technical requirements, process standards, customer requirements, and scheduling constraints.
* Lead cross-functional improvement projects to: stabilize and enhance production system efficiency, enable production rate increases, incorporate product/process changes into the production system, and support future development work.
* Build and maintain strong relationships with internal customers, stakeholders, peers, and business partners; leverage these networks for input on key projects and initiatives.
* Ensure effective scheduling and control practices, and align fabrication capacity with production demands.
* Manage, develop, and motivate employees to achieve their best as individuals and as a team.
* Identify training needs and promote professional development opportunities to grow team capability and succession readiness.
* Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or equivalent.
* Minimum 3 years of professional engineering experience.
* 8+ years of aerospace engineering experience in a production engineering environment.
* Experience leading or managing engineering teams, preferably within Tool Engineering or Tooling ME.
* Demonstrated knowledge of composite and metal fabrication/assembly and tooling systems.
* Knowledge and understanding of ETOM (Enterprise Tooling Outsource Management)
* Knowledge and understanding on Tooling Value Stream Management metrics
* Experience working with cross-functional teams (manufacturing, quality, supply chain, program management).
* Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, and ability to influence across functions and levels.
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