Summary

Serves as technical expert and supports activities of the Company related to technical sales and product development of aircraft interior details, sub-assemblies, complete monuments, tooling design/fabrication and supports production efforts in all aspects to ensure project completion objectives are met.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides guidance for manufacturing methods used for fabrication ensuring best manufacturing practices are used to obtain desired results.
• Examines monument drawings provided by Engineering to verify buildability and signs off before Production begins.
• Provides tooling recommendations, requirements, and fabrication of such, etc. and production training recommendations including sharing lessons learned.  
• Leads initial drawing reviews and gathers suggestions for preferred manufacturing techniques.
• Orders veneers and hardwoods, as well as veneer mapping. Manages and issues veneers, as needed to the allotted monuments.
• Responsible for assigned project production planning and layout, organizational set up, progress reporting and departmental coordination to ensure a successful project completion.
• Provides technical oversight to a broad range of projects while leveraging emerging technologies, innovation, and creativity.
• Resolves technical issues using solutions that involve re-use of existing company designs (as applicable) and new techniques, technologies, or concepts as needed.
• Ensures engineering designs take full advantage of technologies available while focusing on cost, schedule, and quality.
• Monitors progress of projects, confers with Directors, Managers, and Certification staff to ensure efficient accomplishment of plans.
• Provides manufacturing technical leadership and guidance to engineers working on projects.
• Handles special projects and/or be assigned challenging projects.
• Facilitates R&D activity between Engineering and Manufacturing.
• Provides direct feedback to management regarding all project visibility.
• Maintains regular attendance including being at work, being on time to work and working full shifts.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Greenpoint Core Competencies

• Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, and accepts constructive criticism/feedback and changes approach or method to best fit the situation.
• Communications - Expresses ideas and thoughts effectively in verbal and written form, exhibits good listening and comprehension, keeps others informed, and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Dependability - Responds to requests for service and assistance, follows instruction and responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions and doing the best job possible, keeps commitments, and maintains reliable attendance.
• Initiative - Sets and achieves challenging goals, demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles, measures self against standard of excellence, recognizes and acts on opportunities, and takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.
• Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities, exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views, gives and welcomes feedback, contributes to building a positive team spirit, and puts success of team above own interests.
• Work Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, displays commitment to excellence, looks for ways to improve and promote quality, applies feedback to improve performance, and monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Safety – You observe safety and security procedures, you determine appropriate action beyond guidelines, you use equipment and materials properly, and you report potentially unsafe conditions.

Job Core Competencies

• Job Knowledge - Competent in required job skills and knowledge, exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills, keeps abreast of current developments, requires minimal supervision, displays understanding of how job relates to others, and uses resources effectively.
• Problem Solving - Identifies problems in a timely manner, gathers and analyzes information skillfully, develops alternative solutions, resolves problems in early stages, and works well in group problem solving situations.

Summary of Education, Experience & Certification

Associate’s degree or equivalent with a minimum of ten years of relevant experience in an aerospace production environment, or equivalent combined education and experience. Vocational and technical schooling preferred. Aerospace background and aircraft interior industry experience required.

US Citizen Required - this position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to build effective working relationships, persuade and influence, and problem-solve complex issues.
• Ability to work with machinery, using technical skills.
• Ability to read, write analyze, and interpret technical specifications, journals, and legal documents. 
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to clearly analyze customers’ needs and then steer and persuade them into win-win outcomes for the customer and Greenpoint Technologies. 
• Strong communication, relationship, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ethics, character, and interpersonal skills.
• Must stay knowledgeable in the industry and up to date with technical trends as well as competitors and the marketplace.
• Ability to mentor, motivate and pass on key technical skills to other relevant members of the manufacturing Engineering department staff and the organization.
• Ability to read blueprints.
• Ability to organize complex projects and related drawing packages.
• Ability to easily grasp complex documented procedures.
• Proficient with computers including data entry and MS Office (Word, Excel).
• Knowledge of aerospace record keeping, and related quality standards required.
• Ability to maintain high quality standards and work within a schedule driven environment.
• Knowledge of manufacturing fabrication methods and techniques.
• Knowledge of tooling and precision instruments.
• Skilled in applying dec-lam, leather, rubber trim and aluminum trims, etc.
• Knowledge working with Nomex and Aluminum panels.
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time, use hands to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and have close/color vision ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to travel as required.
• Ability to work outside of core business hours as required.