Manager II - Engineering - RF Electronics Lean Product and Process

Job Description The Lean Product and Process (LPPD) Engineering Manager is a functional leader responsible for developing and executing the Lean Product & Process Development strategy across the RF Electronics Manufacturing value stream. Reporting to the RF Electronics Value Stream Manager, this leader strengthens early-phase product development within a highly matrixed environment, enabling knowledge flow, manufacturability, and rapid learning cycles in support of the Tactical Solutions (TS) business.

The Operations Strategic Capabilities Unit plays a fundamental role in enabling efficient business and program execution – from strategic capital investments, industrial operations and an efficient supply chain, to state-of-the-art manufacturing and test operations and top-notch facilities management.

• •Partner with value stream leadership to define customer value and clarify purpose across engineering and operations.
• •Engage cross-functional teams to understand value‑creating activities and identify barriers to knowledge and hardware flow.
• •Build organizational awareness and alignment around the 13 LPPD principles, integrating them into daily work and development cadence.
• •Develop a sociotechnical strategy grounded in True North and implemented through PDCA cycles to achieve target conditions.
• •Use Hoshin Kanri to translate long-term strategy into executable tactics with alignment across the value stream.
• •Drive producible architecture early in the lifecycle, embedding DFM, DFT, DTUPC, and DFX disciplines as part of upstream learning cycles (“Left Shift”).
• •Provide leadership for Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRAs) and Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs), ensuring early risk identification and progressive readiness, not reactive inspection.
• •Promote use of Systems, Hardware, ITE, and development engineering processes; reinforce design guidelines and manufacturability criteria throughout concept and prototype cycles.
• •Identify organizational, process, and system gaps; design structures that maximize value creation and enable rapid learning.
• •Lead with a Lean coaching approach characterized by respect for people, go-and-see behavior, and problem-first thinking.
• •Increase development velocity through LPPD practices such as set-based learning, early manufacturability engagement, and iterative learning cycles.
• •Remove structural barriers that limit development flow and implement countermeasures that improve end-to-end knowledge and hardware movement.
• •Establish organizational clarity around customer value and success metrics, and ensure teams integrate this shared purpose into development plans, prototype builds, and decision-making.
• •Facilitate cross-functional alignment by connecting engineering, operations, supply chain, and program teams to shared objectives and a synchronized development cadence.
• •Build foundational lean thinking and LPPD literacy across teams with emerging exposure, enabling a shift from tool-based activity to systems-level problem solving.
• •Provide strategic and technical leadership in Development Manufacturing Engineering, including prototyping flow, design-for-manufacturability input, and transition-to-production readiness.
• •Lead effectively in a highly matrixed environment, influencing without direct authority while aligning engineering, operations, supply chain, and program leadership.
• •Maintain a focus on safety, training, talent development, and building a diverse, high-performing organization.
• •Manage 2-3 matrixed managers and an overall organization of 15 manufacturing engineers and technical professionals.
• •Own departmental indirect budgets to ensure stable, competitive, and predictable labor rates.
• •Ensure preferred part and supplier selections align to supply-chain strategy and early manufacturability constraints.
• •Support early awareness of manufacturability and cost drivers as part of learning cycles—ensuring decisions align with customer value, factory capability, and downstream flow.
• •Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• •Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
• •Perform other duties as necessary.

On-Site Work Environment: This position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site five days each normally scheduled week in the primary work location. Travel and local commute between company campuses and other possible non-company locations may be required.

• •Work is performed in an office, laboratory, production floor, or cleanroom, outdoors or remote research environment.
• •May occasionally work in production work centers where use of protective equipment and gear is required.
• •May access other facilities in various weather conditions.

Short Term Incentive: Subject to business performance and recommendations of management, this role may be eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan.