Head of Manufacturing

Helicon • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

Helicon's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to advanced materials. We combine AI software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing to reinvent how the West maintains a competitive edge. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care about what you’ve built. At Helicon, everyone owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. Every day we build what most think is impossible. We're backed by the investors who were first believers in Valar Atomics, Applied Intuition, Factory, Astranis, Flock Safety and Relativity Space.

Requirements

• Experience with high volume composites processes
• Strong understanding of first principles physics and manufacturing fundamentals
• Proven track record of exceptional ability driven by engineering fundamentals
• Experience owning production lines or cells with direct responsibility for output, quality and schedule
• Experience ramping manufacturing processes from early builds into repeatable production
• Ability to lead in both high-mix and high-volume environments, knowing when each requires different systems and decisions
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Nice To Haves

• Experience going from manual to automated production lines
• Experience skills integrating sensors, controls and mechanical systems
• Experience building production teams, managing technicians and developing manufacturing leaders

Responsibilities

• Own the production floor end to end against delivery timelines
• Stand up, ramp and run manufacturing lines from build readiness through steady-state production
• Help build the operating system for production at Helicon: capacity planning, bottleneck management, line balancing, escalation paths and daily execution rhythms
• Own equipment installation, procurement, commissioning and acceptance for new production cells and line expansions
• Lead process development and continuous improvement to increase throughput, yield and on-time delivery
• Collaborate with software engineers to encode real manufacturing constraints into Argos (our OS for supply chain, quoting, pricing, simulation)

Benefits

• Covering meals
• Paying for products that make you more productive

What This Job Offers

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