Head of Manufacturing
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related technical discipline.
- 15 years of progressive manufacturing or operations experience, including significant leadership responsibility for plant, production, or manufacturing operations.
- Experience leading multiple manufacturing functions and a sizable multi-level organization in a technically complex manufacturing environment.
- Experience in semiconductors, superconductors, advanced materials, electronics, thin-film manufacturing, specialty chemicals, battery manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, or another comparable high-precisi
- Demonstrated success building disciplined manufacturing organizations and improving safety, quality, yield, throughput, equipment reliability, cost, and delivery performance.
- Experience leading multi-shift manufacturing operations and developing leaders at the manager and director level.
- Demonstrated experience scaling remote manufacturing operations, implementing production controls, and establishing sustainable continuous improvement systems.
- Experience partnering with Engineering and R&D to transition technologies, equipment, or processes from development into sustained manufacturing.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related discipline.
- Executive-level manufacturing leadership experience in semiconductor fabrication, semiconductor capital equipment, superconducting materials, thin-film deposition, or advanced-materials manufacturing.
- Experience with MOCVD, CVD, PVD, sputtering, plating, vacuum processing, thermal processing, continuous web or roll-to-roll manufacturing, or related technologies.
- Experience scaling manufacturing operations from development or low-volume production into stable, high-volume commercial manufacturing.
- Experience commissioning, qualifying, ramping, and sustaining complex production equipment and manufacturing lines.
- Experience leading Quality, Yield, Maintenance, EHS, Supply Chain, Facilities, or similarly integrated manufacturing functions in addition to Production.
- Experience implementing Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, SPC, OEE, 5S, tiered daily management, or comparable operational-excellence systems.
- Experience operating in a high-growth organization where manufacturing technology, equipment, processes, and organizational structures continue to mature rapidly.
Full description
Empower Your Future: At MetOx International, we’re pioneering the next era of energy security and abundance through breakthrough superconducting technology. As Head of Manufacturing, you’ll join a dynamic team committed to strengthening the world’s energy systems to make them more resilient, efficient, and reliable.
Based at our global headquarters in Houston, TX, the Head of Manufacturing leads the manufacturing organization and owns the operating system that converts MetOx's advanced technology into safe, reliable, repeatable, and scalable production. This leader has responsibility for Production, Maintenance, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Quality, Yield, Supply Chain, and Facilities, integrating these functions into one disciplined manufacturing organization with clear priorities, metrics, accountability, and operating rhythms.
The Head of Manufacturing brings the rigor of semiconductor, superconducting, advanced materials, or similarly complex manufacturing environments to MetOx's rapidly scaling operations. This leader establishes the systems, processes, organizational capabilities, and culture required to improve yield, increase equipment reliability, expand capacity, control cost, and consistently deliver against production commitments.
This role requires an executive who combines strategic manufacturing leadership with a strong presence on the factory floor. The successful leader uses data to drive decisions, creates accountability across functions and levels, develops strong leaders, and builds a culture where safety, quality, yield, equipment performance, and production execution operate as an integrated system.
Key ResponsibilitiesManufacturing Strategy and Operational Leadership
- Rapidly assesses the existing pilot line team, closes critical gaps, and establishes clear accountability across all functions.
- Develops and executes a manufacturing strategy calibrated to MetOx's R&D/manufacturing hybrid reality, with an aggressive roadmap toward repeatable, high-yield commercial production.
- Establishes clear KPIs, tiered operating reviews, and escalation protocols, driving accountability and consistent execution across the organization.
- Develops site-level organizational structures, hiring plans, and operational governance frameworks for new or expanding manufacturing locations, ensuring each site launches with the right leadership and systems in place before production begins.
- Builds organizational capabilities and systems that support growth and future site expansion.
- Leads from the front, maintaining a highly visible, active presence on the manufacturing floor.
Manufacturing Excellence and SPC
- Introduces and enforces semiconductor-grade manufacturing discipline: standard work, Statistical Process Control (SPC), process capability analysis, DOE, tiered daily management, visual management, and structured problem-solving.