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About the role
Loft Orbital is looking for a Manufacturing Engineering Lead to help scale the way we build spacecraft. This is a hands-on, player-coach role combining technical leadership with direct Manufacturing Engineering execution. You’ll spend approximately half of your time providing technical direction, prioritizing work, and mentoring Manufacturing Engineers, while remaining deeply involved in the day-to-day engineering required to build, troubleshoot, and improve our spacecraft production processes.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership or mentorship while remaining a hands-on individual contributor within a manufacturing or production environment
- Ability to read, interpret, and provide feedback on engineering documentation including mechanical drawings, GD&T, electrical schematics, CAD models, wire lists, BOMs, and engineering specifications
- Experience personally developing and maintaining manufacturing process plans, assembly instructions, routings, BOMs, and production documentation under configuration control
- Experience working within ERP/MRP/MES systems and understanding the relationship between EBOMs, MBOMs/PBOMs, routings, work orders, inventory, and production execution
- Demonstrated experience solving complex production problems through structured root cause analysis and corrective action
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Wanna join the adventure?
Loft Orbital is looking for a Manufacturing Engineering Lead to help scale the way we build spacecraft. This is a hands-on, player-coach role combining technical leadership with direct Manufacturing Engineering execution. You’ll spend approximately half of your time providing technical direction, prioritizing work, and mentoring Manufacturing Engineers, while remaining deeply involved in the day-to-day engineering required to build, troubleshoot, and improve our spacecraft production processes.
You’ll work directly on the production floor and partner closely with AIT, Design Engineering, Production Planning, Supply Chain, and Quality to translate spacecraft designs into robust, repeatable manufacturing processes. From developing work instructions and tooling to resolving production issues and improving manufacturability, you’ll personally own engineering work while helping the broader team operate effectively and scale.
You’ll be successful in this role by being equally comfortable leading the team and doing the work yourself . You’ll help Manufacturing Engineers prioritize and solve difficult problems while personally developing processes, supporting...
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