Senior NPI Engineering Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.</strong></p> <p>Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.</p> <p>Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.</p> <p>As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.</p> <p>We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.</p> <p>Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.</p></div><p><strong>About the Role: </strong></p> <p>As the Senior NPI Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for developing, leading and executing our assembly, integration and test processes for our next generation of satellites. You will apply your manufacturing engineering and leadership skills to establish the overall process and develop and implement the procedures and work instructions for assembling and testing subassemblies, modules and complete spacecraft. You will manage engineering and technician personnel, and work closely with design engineers, test engineers, engineering program management, and supply chain teams to execute and deliver spacecraft. This role will appeal to candidates who enjoy a methodical approach as well as guiding mentoring others.</p> <p>This is a full-time, in-office position based in our Berlin office 5 days per week.</p> <p><strong>Impact You’ll Own:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Manage manufacturing engineering and technician staff</li> <li>Develop assembly, integration and test processes for PCBAs, subassemblies and full spacecraft</li> <li>Develop mechanical and electrical equipment and fixtures to aid with assembly, integration and testing</li> <li>Develop assembly procedures and work instructions</li> <li>Oversee facilities and capital equipment development for scaling our manufacturing processes to meet our production demand</li> <li>Develop production schedules in tight collaboration with Supply Chain</li> <li>Daily task planning and execution to ensure on-time assembly, testing and delivery of fully functioning satellites during the NPI phase of development </li> <li>Drive non-conformances to resolution and establish actionable process improvements</li> <li>Collaborate with design engineering to continuously improve Spacecraft Design for Manufacturability</li> <li>Transform the manufacturing line from RD to production by developing processes to go from prototype to flight builds</li> <li>Develop, and execute a technology transfer process to the Sustaining Production Team</li> <li>Provide DFM / DFA recommendations to design teams. Ideally specific, CAD recommendations</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You Bring:</strong></p> <ul> <li>6+ years of manufacturing development experience</li> <li>4+ years of management experience</li> <li>Experience managing complex, interdisciplinary manufacturing processes</li> <li>Excellent SolidWorks skills to develop tooling fixturing to interface with spacecraft and to extract useful views for use in work instructions</li> <li>Experience with inventory management processes</li> <li>Experience building clear and effective schedules for production planning</li> <li>Organized approach to project management ... (truncated, view full listing at source)