Job Type
Full-time
Description
The Director of Manufacturing Launch owns manufacturing setup in Launch, from design and first-of-a-kind production through ramp to stabilization, until a building can be consistently produced as a Product. Launch runs as a horizontal through the verticals, and it has three leaders: design, manufacturing, and program management. You are manufacturing. You control line setup, standard work, tooling, takt, and training. You do not control product design, supply chain, construction, or the customer, but you work with and influence all. Each of the three launch leaders builds a team beneath them, all held to one goal. You build the manufacturing launch team, and you resolve manufacturability while the work is still in design. Then you document the baseline, train the operations team, transfer the role, and repeat. Nothing gets thrown over a wall. A line is not finished until the people running it can run it without you.
Requirements
We are completing the launch and stabilization of a major product, with a strong pipeline behind it. Current-line attainment and new-product launch are distinct jobs, and this role exists so both can be done well. Your mandate is to build on what BLOX has already learned and make launch repeatable. We are looking for:
- A manufacturing expert. Layout, flow, takt, tooling, line-side setup. Has built lines, not just improved them.
- A process expert. Standard work, first-pass yield, the discipline to prove a method before scaling it and to replace it when the evidence says you should.
- A systems thinker. Understands design, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and field installation, and resolves problems where they are best eliminated.
- A team builder. Hires, teaches, and promotes engineers who outgrow the org chart.
- A simplifier. Drives to the simple answer on the far side of the complex one, and does the work to get there.
Our team is strong. They built this system and accomplished more, faster, than most teams ever attempt, and they are accountable for attainment on the line running today. Our growth now supports separating manufacturing launch leadership from steady-state operational leadership.
We build like a startup and operate like a manufacturer: if you have only worked where the plant, the budget, and the org chart already existed, this will be uncomfortable. Five years out: a billion dollars, the same system running across multiple factories, DMC at meaningful scale, and a system capable of helping reshape the fastest-growing sector in building. DMC belongs to the industry, not to us, so what you encode here does not stay here. This is not a place to move a thousandth in a decade. Here, you matter.
The seat: Director of Manufacturing Launch, reporting to the COO in close partnership with the CEO. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, with occasional travel to launch sites.
Benefits:
BLOX offers the full spectrum of comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance. We also offer flexible spending accounts, paid time off, short term disability, long term disability, life insurance and a 401k plan.
