Key Responsibilities

• Visit supplier’s facilities and assess on site each vendor’s technical capability and capacity in detail, for both New Product Introduction (NPI) as well as long-term production, working alongside ispace’s Engineering and Quality Assurance teams.
• Lead Design for Manufacturing (DfM) activities with suppliers.
• Drive manufacturing progress at ispace’s global supply chain, focusing primarily on structural, propulsion, and avionics components going into our spacecraft.
• Align vendor activities to ispace’s supply chain strategy for structural, propulsion, and avionics commodities.
• Manage costs to ensure budget adherence of all vendor work
• Perform continuous supplier analysis and risk assessments
• Provide input to negotiations with suppliers’ on technical requirements, project scope, and general T&Cs associated with supply contracts.
• Collaborate with the wider team to achieve QCD targets on components under production
• Work with sub-system and Quality engineers to develop reqs for both production and NPI components
• Negotiate and carry out cost reduction work with suppliers
• Prepare RFx documentation and issue POs.
• Ensure full compliance to internal ispace policies and external regulations applicable to ispace products.

Basic qualification

• Engineering or Science degree
• Excellent communication skills in Japanese and English.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience manufacturing components for Aerospace products (Spacecraft and/or Aircraft)
• Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) experience.
• Experience with Aerospace structures and propulsion components.

Preferred qualification

• Leadership of people.
• Wide experience with 8D methodology for problem solving, as well as performing PFMEAs and Control Plans in manufacturing.
• Experience selecting and driving a suitable supply chain (raw material, all manufacturing ops, validation / inspection, and overall logistics)
• Knowledge of supplier quality processes (EIDPs or/and First Article Inspection reports) and QMS systems in Aerospace (JISQ/AS9100)
• Hands-on knowledge of Lean Manufacturing methods (Minitab, DoE, Six Sigma, etc.)
• Experience inspecting Aerospace components.

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