ACT1 Federal

Engineer

• Conduct hands-on manufacturing assessments for Department of the Navy production-acceleration initiatives across the defense industrial base
• Assess suppliers’ production rates, quality, delivery, cost, and readiness objectives
• Evaluate manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, labor, maintenance, material flow, inspection, testing, and lower-tier dependencies
• Analyze capacity, cycle times, changeovers, equipment availability, scrap, rework, first-pass yield, work in process, process capability, and schedule adherence
• Identify binding constraints and validate capacity assumptions through production observation, data analysis, and authorized run-at-rate or capacity-demonstration activities
• Deploy to critical suppliers facing production, quality, delivery, launch, or capacity challenges
• Develop recovery plans with root causes, corrective actions, owners, resources, dependencies, milestones, escalation paths, and completion evidence
• Establish recovery reviews with supplier, prime-contractor, and Government stakeholders
• Support approved supplier actions and verify effectiveness against agreed measures
• Identify structural issues requiring engineering decisions, capital investment, alternate sourcing, qualification, technical data, workforce development, or Government action
• Assess readiness for new-product introductions, production transfers, additional shifts, equipment installations, facility expansions, and major production-rate increases
• Apply APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA, and structured problem solving as appropriate
• Support readiness gates covering tooling, equipment, workforce, material, process controls, inspection, testing, qualification, and production documentation
• Develop improvement alternatives involving process changes, standardized work, error proofing, tooling, maintenance, overtime, shifts, alternate sourcing, and capital equipment
• Compare implementation time, cost, risk, and expected production benefit with cost and investment analysts
• Track improvements through completion, installation, qualification, demonstrated capacity, and sustained delivery benefit
• Coordinate authorized activities with Government program offices, prime contractors, suppliers, engineering, procurement, and quality teams
• Identify lower-tier and long-lead dependencies and coordinate findings with the TASC supply-chain lead
• Prepare supplier assessments, recovery plans, capacity analyses, risk registers, site-visit reports, executive briefings, recommendations, and TASC execution records
• Communicate findings to technical specialists and senior leaders
• Perform frequent domestic travel to supplier sites and Government meetings

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Senior Supplier Development Engineer – Manufacturing Readiness