Sydney, AU /

Operations – Production Engineering /

Full-Time

/ On-site

Advanced Navigation is the world’s most determined innovator in AI robotics and navigation technologies across land, air, sea and space applications. Founded on a culture of research and discovery, Advanced Navigation's mission is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. Fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics. Today, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors. Discover it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7uAqs1gtuk

The Production Engineering Manager is accountable for the performance of Production Engineers to ensure that the production line runs efficiently and at the necessary quality. 

The role will foster an environment of continuous improvement that adds significant measurable value to the business in cost, lead time or quality (customer experience impact).

The Production Engineering Manager’s primary role is to be available and provide support for the Production Engineers at the Advanced Navigation manufacturing site at Botany. 

The role involves working closely with Production, Quality and R&D and is well-suited to an experienced people manager with deep technical production experience in a regulated environment (e.g. Medical, Automotive, Defence and Aerospace).

• Production Engineering team management to ensure that tasks related to day to day production allocated to the team are performed to the right quality and in a timely manner. Such as quarantine, production changes, non-conformance reports (internal and external facing), customer RMAs.
• Coach and develop the team in the areas of quarantine, production changes, non-conformance reports (internal and external facing), customer RMAs.
• Accountable for the escalation of issues to the Head of Production Engineering that have a significant impact to the business and require significant cross-functional collaboration. 
• Benchmark and track performance of the production line to quality metrics.
• Collaborate with the Production, Production Engineers, Quality and R&D on improvements to existing products and processes that provide significant value to the business. 
• Ensure that appropriate communication tools are up to date and accurate (Confluence and Salesforce).
• Maximise availability for Production Engineers to support tasks, coaching and development.
• Work with the Head of Production Engineering to balance the workload of Production Engineers between supporting production, scaling capacity and introducing new products.
• Complying the Advanced Navigation QMS standards and supporting audits.

• Bachelor degree, preferably in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM)
• A minimum of 5 years experience in a people management role.
• Experience in production or production engineering
• Experience measuring and reporting on production metrics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills Experience in defence or another highly regulated environment e.g. aerospace, defence, automotive, medical devices etc
• Experience in production engineering skills such as root cause analysis, customer RMA, NCRs and Quarantine
• Technical knowledge / experience in a manufacturing process greater than 2 years (e.g electronics, injection moulding, mechanical assembly, machining, optics, photonics, laser welding etc) 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts quickly
• Good stakeholder management
• Experience in production operations and engineering is desirable
• Experience in project management is nice to have

What are some of the benefits you will have access to?

You'll have access to industry-leading products with diverse applications within some of the most interesting and exciting projects worldwide. We’re growing a team of inspired, smart, and driven individuals from all sorts of backgrounds. With great opportunities for growth and variety, we strive to help each employee carve out the path that’s right for them. Apart from the above you will be doing your life's best work in a large, fun office in central Sydney close to all public transportation.