Director of Manufacturing Launch

Blox•Bessemer, AL

12h•Onsite

About The Position

BLOX designs, manufactures, and constructs buildings and delivers them as products across the country. DesignManufactureConstruct is the system we use. DMC moves complexity to the left: work the industry solves in the field, we move to the factory; work the factory struggles with, we eliminate at design. Manufacturing runs as a visually controlled, continuous-flow pull system, managed to takt with the minimal buffers required to stabilize flow. The BLOX system works, proven through multiple products and launches. Our next step is to encode that experience into a manufacturing launch system that is repeatable, teachable, and capable of supporting the scale ahead of us. That means converting what our best people know into standard work, tooling, interfaces, controls, and training. It also means knowing which parts of the system are load-bearing, where volume creates pressure, and having the judgment to strengthen or replace what no longer serves the work. Growth will test every system. Our job is to be ready first. The Director of Manufacturing Launch owns manufacturing setup in Launch, from design and first-of-a-kind production through ramp to stabilization, until a building can be consistently produced as a Product. Launch runs as a horizontal through the verticals, and it has three leaders: design, manufacturing, and program management. You are manufacturing. You control line setup, standard work, tooling, takt, and training. You do not control product design, supply chain, construction, or the customer, but you work with and influence all. Each of the three launch leaders builds a team beneath them, all held to one goal. You build the manufacturing launch team, and you resolve manufacturability while the work is still in design. Then you document the baseline, train the operations team, transfer the role, and repeat. Nothing gets thrown over a wall. A line is not finished until the people running it can run it without you.

Requirements

A manufacturing expert with experience in layout, flow, takt, tooling, and line-side setup.
Has built lines, not just improved them.
A process expert with knowledge of standard work, first-pass yield, and the discipline to prove a method before scaling and replace it when evidence suggests.
A systems thinker who understands design, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and field installation, and resolves problems where they are best eliminated.
A team builder who hires, teaches, and promotes engineers.
A simplifier who drives to the simple answer on the far side of the complex one.
Experience working in an environment that builds like a startup and operates like a manufacturer.
Minimum of five years of experience is implied by the five-year outlook.
Experience in manufacturing setup, from design and first-of-a-kind production through ramp to stabilization.

Nice To Haves

Experience in an organization where the plant, budget, and org chart already existed may be uncomfortable.

Responsibilities

Owns manufacturing setup in Launch, from design and first-of-a-kind production through ramp to stabilization, until a building can be consistently produced as a Product.
Controls line setup, standard work, tooling, takt, and training.
Works with and influences product design, supply chain, construction, and the customer.
Builds the manufacturing launch team.
Resolves manufacturability while the work is still in design.
Documents the baseline, trains the operations team, and transfers the role.
Makes launch repeatable by building on existing learnings.