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Associate Production Engineering Specialist

PDS Defense • Columbus, MS • 1w ago

Engineering

Associate Production Engineering Specialist Columbus, MS Posted: 8/11/2025

Job Description

Job ID#:

212526

Job Category:

Engineering

Position Type:

Associate - W2

Shift:

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking an Associate Production Engineering Specialist, in Columbus, MS. Job ID#212526

Job Description:

In this role, you will be responsible for translating Engineering design data for all technical aspects into work instructions for fabrication, assembly, and installation of sheet metal, composite, and electrical parts. You'll also be responsible for assisting the Production Engineering Specialist (PES) team in creating and maintaining released/approved data structures, within the dedicated MRP system, to ensure conformity to design, configuration management, quality assurance, and material planning/schedule requirements.

Other dimensions of the role include:

Making recommendations to the PES team pertaining to design data analysis to determine operational task sequencing to increase efficiency for industrial flow

Making recommendations to Design Engineering to gain efficiencies throughout the life cycle of the product(s).

Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineers to streamline production flow, tact, and material planning and forecasting.

Your Challenges:

Work Preparation: 50%

Audit technical work instructions and provide feedback to the PES team for potential updates. This includes all design data required to describe the complete process required to manufacture, assemble, test, process, and deliver the products of the company.

Evaluate current sequence tasks to ensure manufacturing, assembly, and installation requirements are implemented to improve efficiency, and provide recommendations to the PES team. Assist to confirm that tasks are in coordination with industrial schedules, back shops, production lines, and retrofit, as required.

Input engineering design data requirements into the MRP system, including but not limited to, routing instructions, bill of materials (BOM), design and special process references, production resource tools (PRT), and standard times, as required by the PES team.

Coordination: 30%

Coordinate with the PES team on creating and auditing existing work instructions to enhance internal products and ensure that work orders contain more detailed information to add more value for internal customers.

Coordinate with PES, Data Management Group (DMG), Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, and Industrial teams to ensure accurate communication of design requirements, in order to facilitate the manufacturing and installation for serial production, retrofit, and new helicopter completion (NHC) activities.

Coordinate any material and operational instruction updates to the PES team to ensure new and existing design data is made available to applicable team(s).

Collaborate within a team environment to develop creative ideas and solutions and facilitate continuous improvements.

Configuration: 15%

Possess basic knowledge of Configuration Management in order to administer the design implementation and evolution of all products of the company, related to Parts 21 and 145.

Execute design data updates and implement affected changes into serial production, retrofit, and NHC, to maintain configuration control of all parts, assemblies, and aircraft as required by the PES team.

Other duties as assigned: 5%

Perform periodical inspections of MRP structures to ensure accuracies and efficiencies are being achieved, including but not limited to, standard routing times, production resource tools, and document references and provide feedback to the PES team for evaluation.

Provide operational support to other departments, as required.

Your Boarding Pass:

Possess an Associate degree or equivalent work experience (2 years)

Minimum 1 year of experience in a manufacturing or customization environment.

Knowledge of industrial and/or manufacturing processes to execute the life cycle of a product.

Ability to use computers and associated hardware and software

Must be a US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license)

Preferred Education/Skills:

Bachelor's degree

Knowledge with material requirements planning systems, such as SAP.

Experience with FAA Part 21 and Part 145 production environments

Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and wiring diagrams

Able to read, understand, and interpret engineering drawings, reports, industrial standards/norms, and other technical data

Operational experience within SAP systems as it relates to the requirements of this position

G-Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides, G-Mail)

Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.

Job Requirements

Minimum Security Clearance:

No Clearance

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit http://www.tadpgs.com/candidate-privacy/ or https://pdsdefense.com/candidate-privacy/

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

The California Fair Chance Act

Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

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