Senior Director – Factories as a Service Engineering, Special Projects

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts.

We recently raised $260 million dollar Series C to accelerate this mission. We are excited to be launching a new Factory in Mesa, Arizona, a 270,000 square foot facility that will create 350 new jobs immediately. We are opening a new headquarters to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to serve naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.

Hadrian works with startups, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, and major defense contractors across space, shipbuilding, and aviation to scale production, reduce costs, and accelerate delivery on mission-critical programs. We are backed by leading investors including Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz. Our fast-growing team is united by a shared mission to reindustrialize American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond!

The factories as a service team analyses our current customers production and supply chain challenges, builds data driven presentations, designs and scopes factories of the future, and assists the Federal and Strategic sales team in forming long term partnerships with the DOD, Primes and other manufacturers.

This specific team owns scoping, design, cost, schedule and technology analysis and proposals for major programs and manufacturing transformations across all manufacturing methods and domains.

With several major programs in flight, we are hiring rapidly for this team that will effectively analyze, design, scope, plan and handover (or join) execution of large scale manufacturing efforts.

The Role:

Senior Director – Factories as a Service Engineering

This role partners with Software leadership and owns the Scoping/Planning function for factories as a service – including analysis of current production performance onsite with customers, schedule and BOM analysis, manufacturing planning (ie: drawing by drawing CapEx analysis), labor planning, assist with site selection, and customer proposals/presentations in partnership with our sales teams.

This role will lead15-20 Individual Contributors (MEs, Supply Chain, Finance Analysts) who are subject matter experts in manufacturing domains (casting, machining, inspection, post-processing, welding, sheet metal, tube, forging, etc), and interface with software, facilities and program management to be able to take large scale projects from idea (after customers have engaged) to final, $100m-$1B proposals and the beginnings of execution / factory standup.

What You’ll Do:

• Analyse customer’s production and supply chain challenges and design/plan/scope factories of the future

• Lead a team of manufacturing engineers and domain experts to synthesize complete solutions for customers

• Deliver cost/schedule/solutions in partnership with our customers and Federal team

What We’re Looking For:

• Director to VP level experience in Aerospace or Automotive production and supply chain leadership

• Inherit knowledge and prior ownership of large scale product manufacturing or commodity manufacturing across multiple manufacturing and supply chain domains

• Ability to rapidly identify root causes, build plans of attack, and translate the details of manufacturing to CEOs and Executives at customers

• Risk-adjusted mindset; know where to bet, and know where to hedge

• Ability to get in the weeds with your team when needed, and ability to delegate where relevant

• Ability to travel onsite 30-40% of the time to customers for onsite analysis

What Will Set You Apart:

• Software or automation experience is not required but helpful

• Expierence Managing Managers

• Experience Managing teams larger than 30

Benefits:

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees

• 401k

• Relocation stipend if you’re moving from outside of LA

• Flexible vacation policy

ITAR Requirements:

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you 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. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer:

It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race inclusive of traits historically associated with race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks and twists), color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin (including, in California, possession of a drivers license), ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, height or weight, medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, exercise of reproductive rights, any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws, or any combination of the above characteristics. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.