About this role
The role
You will turn Fleetzero's designs into parts and modules we can build repeatedly, at production rate. Our engineers will bring ideas that have never been built. You decide how they get built: the jigs, fixtures, tooling, and automation that take a first article to a factory throughput number.
We want a machine-tool and production-engineering expert from high-volume manufacturing: automotive, aerospace, launch, defense, or electronics. Fleetzero's LFP battery system, Leviathan™, and the vessels built around it are made in a factory, and the factory is a product we design as carefully as the vessel.
This is a hands-on role in a safety-critical product. You will take independent initiative, spend your days on the factory floor, and work with a small team of engineers who build.
You will own three things
Tooling and process design. Design and build the jigs, fixtures, and tooling for our parts and modules. Select the processes (cutting, forming, welding, machining) and the machines that run them.
Automation and factory throughput. Specify and deploy automation such as robotic welding, cutting, and handling. Set cycle times, layout, and flow. Find the bottleneck, remove it, and measure the result.
Design-for-manufacture partnership. Work with the structures lead and the naval architect from the first sketch. Settle tolerances, joints, weld sequences, and materials early, so ideas become builds without rework.