Director of Manufacturing

Fluidstack

• $125K — $150K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience managing multiple plant managers or site leaders
  • Proven ownership of plant logistics, including inbound materials and outbound shipping
  • Experience working cross-functionally with manufacturing engineering and supply chain teams
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and address issues in production before they impact schedules
  • Strong written communication skills to convey complex production issues succinctly
  • Bonus: Background in multi-site manufacturing in semiconductor or EV industries, and experience with Lean or Six Sigma practices.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of plant managers to achieve production and quality standards across all sites.
  • Oversee end-to-end plant logistics to prevent supply gaps affecting schedule and costs.
  • Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain to ensure optimal plant operation.
  • Establish and monitor production targets across multiple sites for early intervention on potential issues.
  • Recruit and develop plant managers to match the pace of new site openings.

Benefits

  • Full autonomy to take on projects and operate beyond your core role.
  • A fast-paced environment driven by urgency and innovation.
  • Opportunity to work on high-impact problems in the field of AI.
  • A focus on building meaningful projects that contribute to the world.
Full Job Description
How We Operate
  • Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
  • Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
  • Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
  • Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
  • Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.


The Manufacturing Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Scale a manufacturing engine that outgrows the industry's pace. Grow capacity and capability across the full production process, so the team can take on more products and higher volume faster than anyone else builds.
  • Build the ecosystem that ships gigawatts of infrastructure a year. You'll build and operate the full manufacturing ecosystem, not just a line, so output compounds as fast as the company scales.
  • Be the engine that grows faster than the company itself. Solve problems faster, think bigger, and develop yourself and your team as dynamically as Fluidstack scales around you.

Role Scope
  • Manage a bench of plant managers across multiple manufacturing sites, setting the production, quality, and safety bar every plant is held to.
  • Own plant logistics end to end, inbound materials, in-plant flow, and outbound shipping, so schedule and cost never turn on a supply gap.
  • Work across Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain to keep every plant running as designed, catching gaps before they show up in output.
  • Set and hold production targets across the fleet, catching a struggling site early enough to fix it before it slips the build calendar.
  • Build the manufacturing organization under you, hiring and developing plant managers as fast as new sites come online.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've managed multiple plant managers or site leaders at once, holding each to the same production and quality bar.
  • You've owned plant logistics, inbound materials, in-plant flow, and outbound shipping, not just the production line itself.
  • You've worked cross-functionally with manufacturing engineering, supply chain, and program teams to keep multiple plants running as intended.
  • You've caught a struggling site early and fixed it before it slipped a build or shipment schedule.
  • You write clearly enough to turn a fleet-wide production issue into a decision a CEO or COO can make in one read.
  • Bonus: Multi-site manufacturing operations (semiconductor, EV, battery, or industrial equipment). Supply chain and logistics network design. Lean or Six Sigma programs run at scale. P&L ownership across multiple facilities.


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