Additive Manufacturing Production Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily MJF production, including build preparation, machine operation, powder handling, unpacking, depowdering, blasting, dyeing, and job staging.
• Support FDM and SLA production as needed, including machine operation, job preparation, post-processing coordination, troubleshooting, and workflow improvement.
• Support the expansion and scale-up of OSG’s additive manufacturing production capability, including equipment readiness, workflow development, process documentation, and production launch activities.
• Work with production management to schedule additive manufacturing jobs, prioritize builds, manage machine capacity, and coordinate workflow through post-processing and inspection.
• Supervise MJF Manufacturing Technicians responsible for MJF production tasks, post-processing, cleaning, blasting, dyeing, staging, and related support work.
• Create and maintain additive manufacturing procedures, work instructions, checklists, machine logs, powder records, and quality documentation.
• Establish process controls for material handling, powder reuse, part traceability, inspection, rework, and nonconforming parts.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to machine operation, build failures, part quality, powder flow, software preparation, and post-processing.
• Cook up with production, applications engineering, quality, finishing, painting, quoting, and sales.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in additive manufacturing, manufacturing production, CNC, plastics processing, machining, industrial equipment operation, or a related technical field.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and ability to troubleshoot production equipment.
• Ability to read drawings, job travelers, work instructions, and basic dimensional requirements.
• Strong organization, documentation, and communication skills.
• Comfortable using production software, spreadsheets, quoting systems, and digital job tracking tools.
• Ability to lead hands-on production work while training and supervising technicians.
• Ability to coordinate production schedules, priorities, and job flow with production management.
• Ability to support customer-facing technical discussions and sales opportunity development.
• Commitment to safe work practices, PPE use, cleanliness, and process discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HP Multi Jet Fusion, SLS, SAF, SLA, FDM, or other industrial additive manufacturing systems.
• Experience with build preparation or nesting software such as HP 3D Build Manager, Materialise Magics, Netfabb, or similar software.
• Experience with nylon powder, depowdering, bead blasting, dyeing, vapor smoothing, painting, resin post-processing, support removal, or other post-processing methods.
• Experience creating SOPs, work instructions, inspection records, or quality documentation.
• Experience with ISO 9001, ITAR, traceability, job travelers, or controlled manufacturing documentation.
• Prior experience leading technicians or a small production cell.
• Experience supporting technical sales, quoting, customer conversions, or production program development.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, and work in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to lift and handle parts, powder containers, consumables, and production materials as required.
• Ability to wear required PPE and work around powder handling, compressed air, blasting equipment, resin systems, FDM equipment, and industrial machinery.

Company Description

Obsidian Solutions Group LLC (OSG) is a fast-growing professional services firm based in Fredericksburg, VA. We create value for our customers by delivering technology-enabled & mission-oriented technical solutions that solve complex problems, protecting people, information, and assets. Our core capabilities are in providing Enterprise IT, Intelligence Analysis, Production & Development and Knowledge-Based Professional Services Solutions that enable the customer’s mission. Obsidian Solutions Group LLC is a certified 8(a), service-disabled, veteran-owned small business.

A career at Obsidian Solutions Group means you are able to put your expertise, credentials, and talents to great use working with customers in the DOD and Intelligence Community, while enjoying the excitement of working in a fast-growing organization committed to making a difference for our customers and in our community. Contribute independently and collaboratively alongside our amazing team of doers and thinkers. Obsidian Solutions Group is small enough to offer a family atmosphere yet large enough to deliver a highly competitive compensation package. We hire and retain the best in the industry, offering exceptional benefits that protect the well-being of our employees, their spouses and domestic partners, and their families.

Our corporate philosophy is centered on hiring and retaining employees with the requisite skills, professional experience, personal commitment, and ethical standards necessary to foster a culture of operational excellence necessary to surpass our customer’s expectations.

Disclaimer

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.