Lead, Facilities Development Planning, Production

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic design and build-out of the facilities components of the manufacturing/production pipeline, working hand-in-hand with Production Engineering to determine infrastructure requirements and line design.
• Navigate ambiguity by partnering with internal and external stakeholders to drive progress even when design inputs are incomplete.
• Support long-term master planning to determine where engineering programs are best located, getting ahead of long-lead requirements before they constrain the schedule.
• Challenge and pressure-test layouts against long-term objectives, ensuring programming and design serve where production is headed — not just where it is today.
• Drive the manufacturing engineering team toward layout and engineering decisions that maximize flexibility, cost savings, throughput, and speed.
• Hold external vendors — like architects, engineers, contractors — and internal cross-functional partners accountable to providing the data needed to support program requests.
• Develop, implement, and govern production facility standards that ensure consistency, scalability, throughput, and quality across all sites.
• Design and deliver production environments that prioritize growth strategy, worker safety, and productivity across all spaces.
• Own the facilities scope of line build-out projects from concept through commissioning.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing or critical infrastructure design
• Degree in architecture, engineering, or construction
• Deep technical fluency in production line design, infrastructure requirements, and manufacturing facility build-out
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and drive progress with incomplete information
• Experience with long-term master planning and managing long-lead requirements
• Proven ability to evaluate and rethink layouts against long-term operational objectives
• Track record of driving cost, flexibility, throughput, and speed gains through smart layout and engineering decisions
• Demonstrated ability to hold external vendors and cross-functional partners accountable to data and deliverables
• Demonstrated ability to develop and govern facility standards across multiple sites
• Experience partnering closely with manufacturing or production engineering teams
• Experience scaling production facilities in a high-growth environment
• Ability to own projects from concept through commissioning

Other

• Work Location - This position will be onsite 4 to 5 days per week at our Long Beach, CA facility

Pay

Compensation: Base Salary: $150,000-$240,000
Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education and experience.