Head of Hardware Manufacturing

Required

• Track record taking a hardware production operation from zero or near-zero to meaningful volume, where you personally designed the line rather than inherited it
• Experience in a larger, mature manufacturing organization, so you know what good looks like at scale and can build toward it rather than reinventing it
• Demonstrated multi-site experience: standing up new production locations while existing sites keep producing
• Deep capability in technician hiring and training: you have built ramp programs, certification criteria, and trainer structures, and you understand that trained labor is the real constraint on throughput
• Strong manufacturing engineering foundation: time studies, line balancing, takt and cycle analysis, station and tooling design, work instructions, lean and continuous improvement
• Quality leadership: you have run an independent quality gate and held it under schedule pressure
• Proven people leadership at scale: hired and led managers, engineers, and technician leads
• Comfortable being hands-on on the floor and rigorous in the data
• 10-plus years in manufacturing operations, including leadership of a multi-shift production organization