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Director, Manufacturing Engineering, Valves

Long Beach (CA)💼 Full-time💰 $195,000–$195,000🗓 2026-04-30 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead manufacturing engineering for high-performance rocket engines, focusing on scaling production rates and improving build quality for the Terran R vehicle.

Role type

Director, Manufacturing Engineering

Builds

Flight engines for the Terran R rocket

Domain

Aerospace manufacturing / New-space

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Leading engineering teams through development/production transition, scaling manufacturing to meet rate, interfacing with design engineering and production teams, setting team goals, developing novel processing technologies for high-volume valve manufacturing, tactical and strategic planning of manufacturing methods

Preferred skills

Experience in new-space manufacturing environment, manufacture of highly controlled aerospace products

Technologies

None explicitly stated

Responsibilities

Develop and implement build and test solutions to increase production rate and improve build quality, Partner with design teams to drive future design trades on valve components, Lead efforts to build up novel processing technologies for high volume valve manufacturing, Lead planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of manufacturing methods and processes

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership & hands-on engineering

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