Senior Director of Industrialization

About the role

Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions. The company is seeking a Vice President of Industrialization to lead its end-to-end industrialization strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead Mainspring's industrialization strategy from prototype through volume production.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on capacity planning, capital investments, organizational growth, and long-term manufacturing strategy.
• Build, develop, and mentor leaders across NPI, Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, Technical Documentation, and Engineering Change Management.
• Lead organizational design, workforce planning, and capability development across the industrialization organization.
• Own industrialization performance metrics and drive improvements in product quality, manufacturing readiness, launch execution, capacity/throughput, budget, Capex tracking, and cost including scrap/waste reduction and efficiency gains.
• Drive cross-functional execution to ensure successful product launches that meet quality, cost, schedule, and performance objectives.
• Establish manufacturing readiness processes, launch governance, and industrialization best practices.
• Partner with Product Engineering to drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for Test (DFT) initiatives.
• Establish the systems, processes, and organizational capabilities required to support scalable, high-quality manufacturing growth.
• Establish governance for engineering change management and configuration control to ensure product integrity, manufacturing stability, and operational agility.
• Partner with internal manufacturing operations and external manufacturing partners to develop scalable production strategies and global industrialization capabilities.
• Ensure manufacturing processes, test systems, and documentation support world-class product quality, reliability, and customer outcomes.
• Drive operational excellence through process standardization, automation, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
• Ownership of factory capacity expansion and capex development and deployment.

Requirements

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 15+ years of experience in manufacturing, NPI, industrialization, product operations, or production engineering.
• 10+ years of experience leading managers and multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
• Proven success building and leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations through multiple product launches, production ramps, and periods of rapid growth.
• Experience managing annual operating plans, capital investment strategies, and organizational growth.
• Demonstrated success launching complex electromechanical products from development through volume production, including leading manufacturing readiness and factory start-up activities across geographically distributed and/or international manufacturing locations.
• Experience scaling manufacturing operations in high-growth technology and industrial product companies.
• Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, production test systems, engineering change management, and product lifecycle management.
• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
• Experience with PLM, ERP, MES, and quality management systems.