Senior Manager, Composite Production

North Kingstown, Rhode Island, USAfull timeOn SiteseniorH1B: no

Regent Senior Manager, Composite Production leads the composite production organization including engineering, maintenance, and production teams to deliver finished parts at rate. This role focuses on building a scalable production organization, standardizing work, and ensuring equipment reliability.

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Senior Manager, Composite Production to own the full composite production organization: the engineering, maintenance, and production teams that together turn composite process into finished parts at rate. You'll lead through a management layer of shift leads and supervisors - standing up standard work and quality control that survive shift-to-shift, building a maintenance program that keeps cure and layup equipment running, and growing and training the workforce as we scale - and help take composite production from prototype builds to predictable, production-ready output, in tight partnership with Advanced Engineering.
If you're energized by building a production organization from the ground up, developing people at scale, and hands-on manufacturing leadership, you'll be in the right place - and we'd be thrilled to have you on the team!
Own Composite Production Performance End to End: Hold single-point accountability across engineering, maintenance, and production for quality, yield, equipment uptime, and throughput — so the three functions operate as one, unified system.
Lead Through a Management Layer: Build and develop the shift leads and supervisors who run the floor day-to-day, and grow that leadership structure so the organization scales without diluting quality.
Systematize Engineered Fixes into Standard Work: Turn one-off process solutions into trained, auditable standards that every technician on every shift can run — and close the loop back to engineering when a standard isn't holding.
Own Equipment Reliability: Run a preventive maintenance program and uptime tracking for cure, layup, and trim equipment (autoclaves, ovens, presses, trim and cure systems), and prioritize maintenance and engineering resources against production schedule risk.