Manufacturing Director
Impulse Space · Redondo Beach, CA · 2 days ago
On-siteManagement$200k–$230k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Hire, manage, and mentor manufacturing engineers, technicians, and leaders to support hardware builds for Impulse’s vehicles.
- Support activities ranging from mechanical assembly, composites, mechanisms, welding, tubes, and/or vehicle integration.
- Work directly with leaders and individual contributors in other disciplines.
- 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 KPI’s, developing training requirements, and driving hardware reliability initiatives.
- Collaborate with design engineers and quality teams to ensure manufacturability, DFM compliance, and long-term reliability.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace engineering or related field.
- 10+ years' of demonstrated hands-on manufacturing experience.
- 5+ years' of leading high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive within an ambiguous environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional departments.
Qualifications
- 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.
Benefits
- Long-term incentives, in the form of stock options.
- Access to medical, vision & dental coverage.
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Pay
$200,000 - $230,000 / year
Schedule
Full-time