Director of Manufacturing

Endurance Energy • Seattle, WA

18h • Onsite

About The Position

Endurance is building the world's first modular subsea geothermal power plants, converting vast thermal resources under the ocean into gigawatts of baseload power. Backed by First Round Capital and Point72 Ventures, our founding team includes veterans from SpaceX, Helion, and Robinhood. We have completed multiple deep ocean deployments and are launching our generation pilot this year. By leveraging manufacturing scale, efficient drilling, and latent cooling on the seafloor, we are pioneering a new category of energy that outperforms traditional sources on both environmental impact and cost.

As the Director of Manufacturing at Endurance Energy, you will own the development, execution, and scaling of our manufacturing capability, from hands-on prototype builds today to production systems capable of deploying fleets of subsea power plants in the future.

This is not a role for someone who only manages from spreadsheets or meetings. You will be directly responsible for ensuring critical hardware gets built, integrated, and delivered on aggressive timelines. In the near term, that means owning manufacturing readiness and execution for major deployment campaigns, including procurement coordination, fabrication scheduling, floor operations, staffing, tooling, inventory, quality, and production flow.

You will be expected to operate with extreme ownership over hardware delivery. If a critical assembly is slipping, a weld procedure is failing, a vendor misses schedule, or a facility constraint blocks progress, you are the person driving resolution.

At the same time, you will build the long-term manufacturing organization and infrastructure required to scale Endurance into a world-class energy company. This includes developing internal fabrication capabilities, improving production systems and layout, hiring elite technical talent, defining manufacturing standards, implementing inventory and traceability systems, and planning future facilities and factory operations.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable personally assembling hardware on the floor, reviewing machining setups, negotiating vendor lead times, planning factory layouts, building high-performing manufacturing teams, and defining the operational architecture of a future gigawatt-scale energy company.

You will work closely with engineering, test, offshore operations, and leadership to ensure hardware moves from design to deployment with speed, quality, and operational rigor.

This is a highly hands-on leadership role for someone who wants to build both hardware and the manufacturing machine behind it.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in manufacturing, production, fabrication, integration, or hardware operations roles involving complex mechanical or electromechanical systems
• Demonstrated experience leading manufacturing teams in fast-paced hardware environments
• Strong hands-on background in fabrication, machining, welding, mechanical assembly, or manufacturing operations
• Track record of owning hardware delivery schedules and executing under aggressive timelines
• Experience building or scaling manufacturing capabilities, production systems, or factory operations
• Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows, supply chain coordination, tooling, quality systems, and production planning
• Experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing technical teams
• Ability to operate effectively across both strategic planning and hands-on execution
• Strong mechanical intuition and ability to rapidly identify and resolve manufacturing and integration issues
• Experience working closely with engineering teams during prototype and production transitions
• High ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive large operational scopes
• Strong communication and organizational skills in multidisciplinary technical environments
• Willingness to operate hands-on in prototype builds, integration activities, and field operations when required

Nice To Haves

• Experience in aerospace, subsea, marine, energy, automotive, or other high-performance hardware industries
• Experience supporting low-volume, high-complexity manufacturing environments
• Background in welding, machining, fabrication, or advanced manufacturing processes
• Experience building manufacturing organizations from early-stage prototype operations through scaled production
• Familiarity with ERP, MRP, inventory management, and production tracking systems
• Experience designing production layouts, tooling strategies, or manufacturing infrastructure
• Strong understanding of DFM, DFA, production quality systems, and reliability considerations
• Experience managing contract manufacturers, fabrication vendors, or distributed supply chains
• Hands-on experience with precision mechanical systems, pressure systems, structural fabrication, or thermal systems
• Experience operating in high-urgency engineering organizations with aggressive hardware schedules

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing execution and hardware delivery for major development and deployment campaigns
• Build and lead a world-class manufacturing organization including technicians, welders, machinists, and fabricators
• Drive day-to-day floor operations including fabrication scheduling, assembly flow, staffing, prioritization, and production readiness
• Develop internal manufacturing capabilities including welding, machining, fabrication, integration, tooling, and production infrastructure
• Establish scalable manufacturing systems, standards, workflows, documentation, and operational processes
• Own inventory systems, material flow, tooling management, and production traceability
• Partner with engineering teams to improve manufacturability, assembly efficiency, reliability, and operational robustness
• Identify manufacturing bottlenecks and aggressively drive resolution to protect critical hardware milestones
• Develop facility plans, production layouts, equipment roadmaps, and future factory expansion strategies
• Support rapid prototyping and iterative development while simultaneously building scalable production processes
• Establish quality standards and inspection practices for fabricated, welded, machined, and assembled hardware
• Operate directly on the floor when needed to unblock critical builds, support integration efforts, and maintain execution velocity
• Build a culture of craftsmanship, accountability, urgency, safety, and operational excellence across the manufacturing organization
• Collaborate closely with integration & test, engineering, and offshore operations teams to ensure systems are manufacturable, testable, deployable, and maintainable

Benefits

• Vision, Dental, Health insurance coverage
• Competitive Compensation: Comprehensive salary and equity packages
• Global Fieldwork: Travel to fascinating deployment sites along oceanic ridges in locations like the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the Azores
• Hands-on Experience: Participate in sea trials and deployment operations in partnership with leading oceanographic institutions
• Cutting-edge Development: Work with technology that spans high-power electronics, marine systems, and clean energy
• Impactful Work: Help solve one of the world's most pressing challenges
• Dive Certification: Company-sponsored recreational dive certification

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed