Head of Manufacturing
About the role
Charge Robotics is hiring a Head of Manufacturing to own the full arc of how our products get built, from standing up and operationalizing the first production facility to building the manufacturing function supporting field deployments. Foundational leadership role to establish processes, org, and infrastructure for scalable, high-quality production, in collaboration with engineering, supply chain, and field teams.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and grow a world-class manufacturing team, and collaborate with company leadership to align manufacturing strategy with company goals and roadmap
- Own the operationalization of our production facility end-to-end (site readiness, equipment, workflows, safety, and staffing) drawing on prior experience doing this before
- Build and maintain a manufacturing engineering org in close lockstep with design engineering to ensure HQ builds, facility production, and field deployments are efficient and continuously optimized for manufacturability. Own the NPI process to ensure smooth handoffs from development into production
- Collaborate with supply chain to drive COGS reduction over time through DFM feedback, process optimization, and yield improvement
- Establish manufacturing processes, documentation, and organizational design (including BOMs, drawings, part qualification, and supplier quality) and set the bar for excellence across all manufacturing activity
- Internally and externally represent the manufacturing function to key stakeholders including employees, customers, executives, and investors, and own EHS compliance and safety culture at the production facility
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience
- 3+ years in a manufacturing leadership role, including standing up and operationalizing a production facility
- Brought complex electromechanical systems from prototype to production, especially involving metal fabrication, rigging, or heavy machinery
- Familiar with DFM, DFA, and/or GD&T principles, and experience sourcing and qualifying suppliers and contract manufacturers
- Based in or able to relocate to the SF Bay Area, and able to work 4-5 days/week from our San Leandro HQ
- Open to ~20% travel (including field deployments and production facility)
- Excited to personally play a part in mitigating climate change
Skills
Benefits
- Significant equity compensation (as part of compensation discussion)
- Opportunities for learning and growth in a fast-moving climate-tech startup
About Charge Robotics
Robots that build solar farms
Charge Robotics is building robots that automate the most labor-intensive parts of solar construction. Solar has rapidly become the cheapest form of power generation in many regions. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the primary barrier to getting it installed is labor logistics and bandwidth. Our robots remove the labor bottleneck, allowing construction companies to meet the rising demand for solar, and enabling the world to switch to renewables faster.
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