Senior Manufacturing Engineer

The role

You will turn complex electro-mechanical products into safe, reliable, repeatable production lines for aircraft, docks, and logistics hardware. You will own assigned assembly lines from process definition and tooling through validation, production release, and sustainment.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end industrialization of assigned assembly lines and feeder sub-assemblies.
• Design, procure, fabricate, install, and commission fixtures, gauges, tooling, workstations, and ergonomic operator flows.
• Define, execute, and sign off on process validation.
• Own first-pass yield, throughput, takt, mean time between failures, downtime, and cost-of-poor-quality metrics.
• Lead DFM reviews and tradeoffs with product design.
• Investigate escalated production issues and escapes and implement corrective actions.
• Create, validate, and maintain SOPs, work instructions, control plans, and training materials.
• Coordinate execution with Design Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and Ops Program Management.
• Plan capacity and production scaling against demand milestones.
• Support on-site production escalations.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering experience designing, building, and sustaining assembly lines for complex electro-mechanical products.
• BS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Practical mastery of PFMEA, control plans, SPC, capability analysis (Cp/Cpk), first-article processes, and production validation.
• Experience designing and validating custom fixtures, jigs, and tooling.
• Proficiency in 3D CAD.
• Experience with MES/ERP and statistical tools such as Minitab, JMP, or Excel.
• Demonstrated cross-functional DFM decisions.
• End-to-end project ownership with minimal oversight.
• Hands-on approach to manufacturing.
• Clear communication of tradeoffs under schedule pressure.
• Accountability for ramp milestones and agreed yield, throughput, and cost targets.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree
• Siemens NX

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Sales incentives
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system to deliver critical supplies.