Director, Manufacturing Engineering, Valves

About the Team:

The Engine Manufacturing team is dedicated to delivering high-performance engines and advancing innovative manufacturing systems that continuously improve cost, quality, and lead time. You're not just executing on designs; you actively provide input that shapes new hardware iterations and regularly interface with engineers to make critical decisions for the Aeon R program. Having successfully developed and refined processes for our initial development engines, the team is now focused on producing flight engines at rate for Terran R's aggressive launch manifest.

About the Role:

• Develop and implement build and test solutions to increase production rate, reduce touch time / hours and improve build quality to support increasing production rate
• Partner with design teams to drive future design trades on valve components, improving valve functionality, build rate / manufacturability and reliability
• Lead efforts to build up novel processing technologies aimed at high volume valve and component manufacturing
• Lead both tactical and strategic planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of manufacturing methods and processes for new and existing products
• Communicate and interface regularly with key stakeholders and employees throughout the organization

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Aerospace Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years experience leading engineering teams thrugh development/production transition and/or scaling to meet rate
• Proven ability to effectively interface with design engineering, manufacturing, and production teams to ensure seamless collaboration and integration of processes.
• Proven ability to set team/individual goals and drive progress/completion of those goals

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience working in new-space manufacturing environment.
• Experience in the manufacture of highly controlled aerospace products.