AdvantaStaff is seeking an Engineering Team Lead for a fiber application, R&D, and production facility in Petersburg, Virginia. This is a key position as the facility works with internal and external customers to commercialize the next generation of high-performance products within a dynamic fiber and ballistic composite portfolio.
Salary:
$100,000 – $170,000 depending on credentials and experience
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Proactively lead cross-functional teams through fiber and composite product development projects in a highly-regulated, safety-first, hands-on manufacturing environment.
- Contribute to intellectual property research and development for high performance fiber and polymer processes used in ballistic and medical applications.
- Work directly with onsite equipment and resources to guide diverse teams through experiment and trial development at the lab and pilot phases, with opportunities to scale.
- Build consensus with internal and external customers on product application development.
- Design analysis, prototyping, and technical troubleshooting, with an ability to communicate all necessary information and expectations to engineers, managers, and technicians alike.
- Apply project management skills to leading, guiding, and mentoring teams through hand-son technical projects, without personnel management responsibility or direct supervisory authority over others.
- Develop definition of technology and process design packages in a way that all stakeholders clearly understand.
- Optimize Process Technology by guiding groups through Value Engineering and Productivity Projects.
Job Qualifications:
- A graduate degree in an Engineering Discipline.
- 5-15+ years of experience in industrial manufacturing with fiber, polymers, composites and/or ballistic product development applications.
- Demonstrated experience in leading new product development and project management.
- A value for exemplifying and maintaining a safety-first culture in a dynamic facility.
- The drive to lead teams in a hands-on, on-site, fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Strong experience in process engineering, quality management processes, continuous improvements.
- Chemical, mechanical, materials engineering or science degree with experience in polymer processing.
- Demonstrated success leading varied teams of stakeholders through engineering projects at all phases, from experiment design to full-scale implementation.
- Hands-on experience with UHMWPE fiber, energy absorbing composites, ballistic product design and testing, composite processing design, armor end article fabrication, or textiles.
- The ability to comfortably communicate and translate technical needs and expectations with executives, engineers, technicians, and operators.
- An aptitude for balancing technical rigor with practical operational needs and realities.
- Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing methodologies and Six Sigma tools and capital project management.
- The ability to organize, analyze, and solve complex problems across departments through proactive influence.
- Hands-on individuals who are able to work without guidance or supervision and have demonstrated knowledge of engineering techniques to optimize design processes.
- Track record of successful contribution to products and projects in a matrix organization.
This hands-on role offers a collaborative engineer the opportunity to leverage their industry expertise and interpersonal leadership skills in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
Apply Online:
advantastaff.com/job/engineering-team-lead-3038/
Questions?
Call 804-414-1560
About AdvantaStaff
AdvantaStaff is the go-to resource for qualified short and long-term staffing, seasonal, and direct hire placements in all facets of manufacturing including logistics and distribution, assembly and packaging, light industrial and advanced manufacturing. A minority women-owned business and part of the Virginia-based Wauford Group, AdvantaStaff’s workforce development services have helped place thousands of employees at every level – from entry warehouse to skilled trade to executive-level positions – across a range of industries in central Virginia and beyond for over 20 years.