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Director, Production Analytics

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)Full-time2026-10-19 → 2026-11-10
U.S. persons only (export control)Security clearance required

Core

Lead global production analytics to shift reporting from retrospective to leading indicators, solving high-value operational problems for manufacturing, supply chain, and planning functions.

Role type

Director, Production Analytics (Player-coach)

Builds

Supported analytics products and enterprise standards for production ramp and constraint management

Domain

Defense manufacturing, supply chain, and production operations

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Strategic problem prioritization, hands-on SQL and modern data stack, data quality governance, cross-functional influence without authority, productizing analytics solutions, managing managers

Preferred skills

Manufacturing/supply chain operational depth, production ramp experience, Databricks and Palantir Foundry, dimensional modeling

Technologies

SQL, Databricks, Palantir Foundry

Responsibilities

Solve the hardest analytical problems in flagship programs end-to-end; shift production reporting to leading indicators; generalize proven capabilities into enterprise standards; own analytical aspects of scaling from low to high rate; lead the consolidated analytics organization and managers; fix data quality defects before building metrics

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with team leadership