Careers
Career opportunities at Gladiator Technologies, a leading innovator and manufacturer for Inertial Sensors (IMU, INS/GPS, Gyroscopes, Accelerometers) used in demanding commercial aerospace, unmanned systems, defense, motorsports and other commercial applications. Gladiator is expanding rapidly, check below for our current openings:
OPEN POSITIONS
Essential Job Duties:
- Responsible for all manufacturing engineering matters relating to new product launches including process development, validation, pilot builds, reducing cost, identifying required facility improvements, design and fabrication of tooling & equipment, development of required documentation, operator training, demonstrating process capability and transitioning products from development to production.
- Provide manufacturing and tolerancing feedback to design teams with regard to inspection capabilities and inspection strategies.
- Support day-to-day production and manufacturing tasks.
- Identify, plan, and execute capital equipment, machine, and layout upgrades to the meet volume production demand.
- Find and eliminate process waste, streamline processes and enable continuous improvement.
- Ability to analyze data and processes and use effective problem-solving methods to identify root causes and find best solutions.
- Develop, track, and report metrics to identify and remove process flow bottlenecks.
- Use lean and 6 sigma methods to eliminate process waste, streamline processes and further enable a continuous improvement culture.
- Confers with vendors to determine product specifications and arrange for purchase of equipment, materials, or parts, and evaluates products according to specifications and quality standards.
- Provides direct support to manufacturing for the specification, design, fabrication, modification and evaluation of parts, assemblies, components, sub-assemblies, tooling and final products.
- Develop and document the manufacturing process knowledge base. Research new technologies for production use.
- Actively participate in new product development and cost reduction programs. Use Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA) and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) tools
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering or similar is strongly preferred.
- 2-4+ years of direct manufacturing and manufacturing engineering experience.
- Enjoys technology and has a proactive attitude to identify and solve problems via hands-on interaction with manufacturing and test.
- Skilled in project management with the ability to multi-task.
- Ability to design and build production tooling, fixtures, and gauges.
- Skilled in using MS Office suite and Project Management software.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.
- Skilled communicator with the ability to work well in a highly motivated team environment.
- Ability to work in a time sensitive environment.
- Strong capabilities with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word) and Windows Operating System.
- Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities.
- US citizenship required to comply with U.S. DOD citizenship and ITAR flow-down requirements.
Benefits
The compensation range for this position is $75,000 to $95,000 and is based on experience level, and credentials. The Company offers the following competitive benefits package that attracts, retains talent, and encourages a healthy work / life balance:
- Annual Performance Bonus
- Annual 401k match
- Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
- Life, AD&D and Long-term Disability insurance
- Variety of discounts for electronics/cell phones, financial services, childcare, groceries, travel, entertainment, and many more
- Various voluntary insurance benefits like legal services, short-term disability, term life insurance and many more
- 14 to 17 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year based on experience level
- 8 paid Holidays throughout the year
- Monthly cell phone stipend based on position and requirements of cellular usage
Essential Job Duties:
· Maintains test and quality records associated with production testing and assembly per AS9100C / ISO 9001:2008.
· Perform both manual and automated tests on assemblies, end items and system level testing to ensure product quality and reliability in accordance with internal policies and regulatory and safety requirements.
· Perform environmental and calibration tests which may include: environmental conditioning, temperature calibration, sensor noise, bias and scale factor, functional, vibration, shock, power supply sensitivity, axis alignment, magnetometer calibration, centrifuge, as well as visual inspection of various assemblies.
· Assist engineering with test and evaluation of developmental products and support production transition from engineering into manufacturing.
· Maintains adherence to production, test and quality system procedures and processes with strong commitment to quality in everything we do.
· Performs all other related duties as assigned by Manager. *
These tasks do not meet the Americans with Disabilities Act definition of essential job functions and are usually less than 5% of time spent. However, these tasks still constitute important performance aspects of the job.
Work Shift:
· Standard work week is Monday – Friday from 7:00am-4:00pm with the potential of working overtime and weekends.
Benefits
The compensation range for this position is $20 to $35 per hour and is based on experience level, and credentials. The Company offers the following competitive benefits package that attracts, retains talent, and encourages a healthy work / life balance:
· Annual 401k match
· Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
· Life, AD&D and Long-term Disability insurance
· Variety of discounts for electronics/cell phones, financial services, childcare, groceries, travel, entertainment, and many more
· Various voluntary insurance benefits like legal services, short-term disability, term life insurance and many more
· 12 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
· 8 paid Holidays throughout the year
Manufacturing Test Associate
Essential Job Duties:
· Maintains test and quality records associated with production testing and assembly per AS9100C / ISO 9001:2008.
· Perform both manual and automated tests on assemblies, end items and system level testing to ensure product quality and reliability in accordance with internal policies and regulatory and safety requirements.
· Perform environmental and calibration tests which may include: environmental conditioning, temperature calibration, sensor noise, bias and scale factor, functional, vibration, shock, power supply sensitivity, axis alignment, magnetometer calibration, centrifuge, as well as visual inspection of various assemblies.
· Assist engineering with test and evaluation of developmental products and support production transition from engineering into manufacturing.
· Maintains adherence to production, test and quality system procedures and processes with strong commitment to quality in everything we do.
· Performs all other related duties as assigned by Manager. *
These tasks do not meet the Americans with Disabilities Act definition of essential job functions and are usually less than 5% of time spent. However, these tasks still constitute important performance aspects of the job.
Work Shift:
· Standard work week is Monday – Friday from 7:00am-4:00pm with the potential of working overtime and weekends.
Benefits
The compensation range for this position is $20 to $35 per hour and is based on experience level, and credentials. The Company offers the following competitive benefits package that attracts, retains talent, and encourages a healthy work / life balance:
· Annual 401k match
· Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
· Life, AD&D and Long-term Disability insurance
· Variety of discounts for electronics/cell phones, financial services, childcare, groceries, travel, entertainment, and many more
· Various voluntary insurance benefits like legal services, short-term disability, term life insurance and many more
· 12 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
· 8 paid Holidays throughout the year
Precision Assembler
Essential Job Duties:
· Maintains test and quality records associated with production testing and assembly per AS9100C / ISO 9001:2008.
· Performs assembly and in-process inspections on sensors, inertial sensors assemblies, GPS modules, and end items in accordance with internal policies, work procedures, and regulatory and safety requirements.
· Maintains adherence to production, inventory, inspection, and quality system procedures and processes with strong commitment to quality.
· Interprets and works in accordance with work orders, drawings and schematics, and assembly work procedures.
· Assists engineering and test with assembly support on both developmental and production items. .
· Performs all other related duties as assigned by Manager. *
These tasks do not meet the Americans with Disabilities Act definition of essential job functions and are usually less than 5% of time spent. However, these tasks still constitute important performance aspects of the job.
Work Shift:
· Standard work week is Monday – Friday from 7:00am-4:00pm with the potential of working overtime and weekends.
Benefits
The compensation range for this position is $20 to $30 per hour and is based on experience level, and credentials. The Company offers the following competitive benefits package that attracts, retains talent, and encourages a healthy work / life balance:
· Annual 401k match
· Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
· Life, AD&D and Long-term Disability insurance
· Variety of discounts for electronics/cell phones, financial services, childcare, groceries, travel, entertainment, and many more
· Various voluntary insurance benefits like legal services, short-term disability, term life insurance and many more
· 14 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
· 8 paid Holidays throughout the year
· Monthly cell phone stipend based on position and requirements of cellular usage
