Manager, Manufacturing Operations
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum 10 years of experience in fabrication, welding, and/or CNC machining.
- Minimum 5 years of experience managing fabrication, welding, and/or CNC machining teams.
- Demonstrated experience with CNC machining operations, including mills, lathes, routers, and 3-axis and 5-axis equipment.
- Demonstrated experience with fabrication and welding processes, including welding inspection and quality programs.
- Demonstrated experience applying relevant code and quality requirements, including applicable ASME standards and ISO 9001.
- Demonstrated experience executing work in a high-mix, R&D, prototype, or rapidly changing manufacturing environment.
- Experience coordinating shop execution against production schedules, work-order priorities, and capacity constraints.
- Knowledge of CAD/CAM software such as Mastercam and SolidWorks preferred.
- Experience with stainless steel, piping, pressure vessels, graphite, and ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code preferred.
- Ability to qualify in ASME B31.3 GTAW welding or D1.1 structural GMAW welding is desirable.
Full description
Company Overview
Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.
Job Summary
Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Manager, Manufacturing Operations to lead shop-floor execution for component manufacturing in support of the company’s FHR technology development programs.
This role is responsible for managing the execution of component manufacturing, maintaining safe and effective shop operations, and ensuring manufacturing activities align with approved schedules, priorities, quality requirements, and changing R&D needs. The Manager will work closely with Machining, Welding, Manufacturing Planning and Production Control teams to verify schedule readiness, communicate shop capacity and constraints, and execute established priorities.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate daily shop-floor operations with the Machining and Welding managers to support machining, fabrication, welding, assembly, and related manufacturing activities.
- Manage the execution of manufacturing work orders to produce high-quality components, prototype hardware, test equipment, and developmental-test assemblies.
- Partner closely with Manufacturing Planning and Production Control to:
- Execute established production schedules and work-order priorities.
- Verify job execution readiness prior to Production Control job release, including material readiness, tooling, drawings, work instructions, staffing, and equipment availability.
- Communicate shop capacity, progress, constraints, schedule risks, and recovery actions.
- Support accurate schedule status and completion reporting.
- Maintain operational flexibility on the shop floor to support changing priorities, rapid prototyping, developmental testing, and urgent engineering needs while preserving alignment with approved manufacturing priorities.
- Coordinate priority assignments and sequencing for shop personnel based on released work, shop conditions, safety requirements, and agreed priorities.
- Coordinate with engineering, PITA, operations, testing, quality, and manufacturing-planning stakeholders
- Participate in drawing and design reviews to improve manufacturability, cost effectiveness, GD&T application, fabrication approach, tooling, and process selection.