Factory Integration Lead

Radiant Industries•Oak Ridge, TN

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role drives coordination between manufacturing engineering, facility design, construction execution, and factory launch to ensure the factory is built correctly for the manufacturing system it must support. It is a highly cross-functional execution role, operating at the intersection of manufacturing process development, facility design, equipment layout, construction execution, and commissioning. The ideal candidate thrives in first-of-a-kind environments, can move fluidly between engineering and field teams, and enjoys solving complex integration problems.

Requirements

5–7+ years experience in manufacturing, factory development, or capital projects.
Experience coordinating across manufacturing engineering, facilities design, and construction teams.
Experience with factory layout, production flow, or manufacturing equipment integration.
Experience in large capital projects or industrial facility construction.
Comfortable working in fast-moving startup environments.
Systems thinker — sees how process, facility, and construction interact.
Comfortable operating across engineering, operations, and field execution.
Strong communicator who can translate between design teams, engineers, and builders.
Highly organized but comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration.
Bias toward execution and problem solving.

Responsibilities

Drive coordination between manufacturing engineering, facility design, construction execution, and factory launch.
Serve as the primary coordination point between manufacturing engineering, architect/engineering design teams, construction management, and commissioning teams.
Ensure facility design decisions support the actual manufacturing processes, equipment layouts, and production flow.
Translate manufacturing requirements into facility design inputs including utilities, equipment space, material flow, and infrastructure.
Work with manufacturing engineering to develop and refine factory layouts, equipment placement, and process flow.
Ensure layouts support both initial First of A Kind production and future scaled manufacturing.
Identify layout, infrastructure, or facility constraints early and drive design adjustments.
Facilitate coordination between internal engineering teams and external design partners.
Ensure architectural and engineering designs remain aligned with manufacturing requirements and operational needs.
Identify conflicts between facility design and manufacturing equipment early.
Participate in design reviews, constructability discussions, and field coordination meetings.
Support resolution of design-to-field conflicts affecting manufacturing systems.
Coordinate installation sequencing between construction completion, equipment installation, and commissioning activities.
Support development of equipment installation plans and factory startup sequencing.
Ensure infrastructure readiness for manufacturing systems.
Help translate the first factory design into a scalable template for future facilities.
Document lessons learned and improvements to support replication of future factories.

Benefits

Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
100% up to base silver level medical plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans.
Sponsored One Medical memberships for employees and their dependents.
100% top tier vision plan coverage + 50% for dependents.
100% top tier dental plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents.
Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
Daily catered lunch.
Free snacks and drinks.
Flexible PTO policy.
Remote workday allocation.
Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.