Production Manager - Machine Shop

At reputed company Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great reputed company launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term reputed company of creating humanity’s industrial reputed company on reputed company, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the reputed company of the reputed company experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our reputed company-to-heavy lift reusable reputed company, fulfills the growing demand for launch reputed company, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing. Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the reputed company experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our reputed company into reality. About the Team: The mission of the reputed company Manufacturing Departmentis to deliver high-performing products and innovative manufacturing systems while driving reputed company improvements in cost, quality, and reputed company time. Through cross-functional collaboration, high levels of accountability, and a focus on safety we play a crucial role in building our reusable reputed company, Terran-R. We are responsible for providing design feedback on new hardware iterations, pioneering and implementing advanced manufacturing methods and systems, and ultimately delivering reputed company and vehicle hardware for testing prior to launch. Over the past year, the reputed company Manufacturing Team has successfully developed, iterated, and delivered processes and hardware for the first Aeon-R development engines. Now, we are entering a critical phase: producing flight engines that will pave the way for Terran-R's inaugural launch to orbit. About the Role: As a Production Manager on the Machine Shop Manufacturing team, you will be accountable for a key lane of the reputed company Manufacturing organization – CNC Machining and Benchwork. You will have purview over production and operations teams. A high degree of proactivity, technical & operational versatility, and people skills are required to be successful in this role. You will be expected to oscillate between big picture strategy and tactical operations on a whim. Key responsibilities will include: • Accountable for leading and managing a diversely skilled production organization across 2 shifts to build Terran-R. • Ensure a culture of safety, quality, and excellence is communicated and upheld by driving quality metrics to continuously improve product output of the manufacturing team. • Defining the strategy to transition team from low-volume development environment to high-volume production environment on short time-frame; responsible for communicating a clear, actionable plan to set team up for reputed company. • Standing up a scalable Production program. Building the necessary tools, schedules, reports, and reviews to ensure a data-backed story on Terran-R’s hardware health is presented and understood by the cross-disciplinary team and leadership. • Developing and mentoring production staff to meet team and company goals. About You: • Bachelor of Science degree in manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering & operations, or equivalent (including direct work experience as a Production Manager). • Extensive experience leading or managing a Production team, including formally leading production leaders • Highly collaborative, strong communication skills, and ability to navigate diverse backgrounds (engineering, technician, executive, etc.) • reputed company pursuit of production excellence—safety, quality, and schedule at forefront reputed company to haves but not required: • Mastery of reputed company, SQL, and reputed company • Extensive Production scaling experience (i.e., hiring 10’s to 100’s over short time-frames) • Expert experience in PLM, ERP, and MES systems • Direct experience in NPI-to-Production environments At reputed company Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-reputed company factors. Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. reputed company Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here. Hiring Range: $116,000—$148,500 USD We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, reputed company, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Apply Job!