Manufacturing Director
Job Location:
Job Location:
Redondo Beach, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 200000 - 230000
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Posted on:
4 hours ago
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
As a Manufacturing Director at Impulse you will hire manage and mentor manufacturing engineers technicians and leaders to support hardware builds for Impulses vehicles. You will support activities ranging from mechanical assembly composites mechanisms welding tubes and/or vehicle integration. You will work directly with leaders and individual contributors in other disciplines. This is an opportunity to contribute to all aspects of vehicle development.
Responsibilities
- Grow team of engineers and technicians to support new programs products and processes (e.g. components thrust chambers turbopumps tanks harnessing tubing welding etc.)
- Mature existing programs for the business by developing KPIs developing training requirements and driving hardware reliability initiatives
- Collaborate with design engineers and quality teams to ensure manufacturability DFM compliance and long-term reliability
- Set daily and weekly production targets backed by performance metrics
- Establish and maintain high technical standards through specifications and training
- Drive the expansion of capabilities and capacity on the shop floor
- Work hand in hand with supply chain to determine make vs. buy decisions and drive new capabilities internally or offload commodities to external vendors
- Mentor and develop levels of leadership across the organization (leads supervisors managers) to establish lines of defense and succession plans for the business
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in mechanical aerospace engineering or related field
- 10 years of demonstrated hands-on manufacturing
- 5 years of leading high-performing teams
- Demonstrated ability to thrive within an ambiguous environment
- Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional departments
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 12 years of hands-on engineering within an aerospace environment
- 8 years of hands-on manufacturing experience working on spacecraft satellites rockets or related hardware
- Demonstrated ability to hire train & manage engineering teams
- Demonstrated experience with new product introduction
- Demonstrated experience with setting up new manufacturing processes from scratch
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role level location and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills education experience technical capabilities and internal addition to base salary for full-time hires you may also be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of stock options and access to medical vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Spaces spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e. U.S. citizen U.S. national lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder) an individual granted asylum in the U.S. or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State Commerce or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race color religion gender national origin/ethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity marital status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Required Experience:
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