Manufacturing Operations Team Lead

Team Lead – Manufacturing Operations

MicroTau is putting 'shark skin' on planes to save fuel and reduce emissions.

Your MissionMicroTau's mission is to improve the efficiency of the global aviation fleet, saving billions in fuel and megatons of CO2 every year. We are hiring a Manufacturing Operations Team Lead to coordinate our supply chain, production, and quality activities, and deliver our film around the world for installation. You will report to our Chief Technology Officer.

What You Will Do

• Lead and grow a world-class team across manufacturing, quality, and supply chain to deliver a product that will fly on thousands of aircraft and save megatons of CO2.
• Execute manufacturing, quality, and supply chain processes, to meet production forecasts, maintain supply continuity, and comply with quality requirements appropriate for aviation applications.
• Drive project management of operational initiatives : track progress, measure impact, communicate feedback, and elevate changes to execution to ensure key milestones are met on time and project objectives are achieved.
• Train and mentor team members in capabilities such as process execution, audits and assessments, traceability and documentation, non-conformity management, and continuous improvement – empowering them to work more autonomously and efficiently.

What Success Looks Like

First Month

You will get to know the engineers manufacturing our product and ensuring its quality, familiarise yourself with our progress to date, learn about our business-critical objectives and capability development goals over the short, medium, and long term. You will learn more about the MicroTau team, our processes, and how we embody our values of lift over drag, active transparency and changing the boundary conditions.

First Six Months

You will coordinate manufacturing runs for upcoming riblet modification package installations, evolve our quality management system to comply with relevant targets by organising internal and external audits and refining quality control testing procedures, improve and maintain our enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to ensure appropriate traceability, and develop a long-term growth plan for the manufacturing operations team.

First Year

You will grow the team and ensure professional development plans address key capability needs, perform supplier risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies to ensure supply continuity, coordinate riblet film manufacturing using our scale processes, oversee supplier audits and assessments, ensure QMS compliance with international standards, and continue to maintain and improve our ERP system.

About You

Why You Should Join MicroTau

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