Job Description
The Head of Manufacturing at Gatik is responsible for leading the scaling, production, and quality assurance of autonomous freight vehicles, overseeing manufacturing operations, supply chain, and retrofit programs to ensure reliable, safe, and cost-efficient high-volume production of autonomous trucks.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead vehicle manufacturing operations, including ramp-up and high-volume production of autonomous freight vehicles.
- Manage relationships with external contract manufacturing partners to ensure quality, throughput, cost efficiency, and schedule adherence.
- Plan and optimize factory floor layout, production processes, and manufacturing flow for efficiency and space utilization.
- Develop and implement scalable manufacturing and quality strategies compliant with safety and regulatory standards.
- Oversee field retrofit and upgrade programs for vehicles in operation, coordinating with service, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
- Support hardware maintenance, repairs, and recalls to ensure vehicle reliability and safety.
- Establish and enforce manufacturing procedures, build documentation, and quality processes following industry best practices.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to transition vehicle designs into reliable production and improve cost, yield, and performance metrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical, Robotics, or a closely related discipline.
- 10 years of progressive manufacturing experience, with demonstrated leadership in scaling vehicle or complex hardware production environments.
- Proven leadership experience building and running manufacturing organizations within automotive, EV, AV, robotics, or complex hardware platforms.
- Demonstrated success developing and executing manufacturing and quality strategies that enable scale and operational reliability.
- Deep experience managing contract manufacturing partners and multi-vendor production networks.
- Hands-on background with vehicle electronics integration, harnessing, sensor mounting, and subsystem verification.
- Strong track record leading Quality teams and establishing robust quality management systems.
- Ability to drive cost improvement, efficiency gains, and production scalability.
- Solid project leadership experience managing builds, retrofits, NPI efforts, and manufacturing ramp programs.
- Experience operating at a senior strategic level while remaining hands-on in execution.
- Strong technical understanding of automotive manufacturing processes, including vehicle assembly and verification procedures.
- Knowledge of safety-critical production environments.
Benefits & Perks
Salary Range - 200,000-270,000
Work schedule - Onsite five days a week
Work environment perks - Collaborative, respectful, and inclusive culture emphasizing diversity and growth
Additional benefits - Opportunities to contribute to innovative autonomous vehicle technology, involvement in scaling high-volume manufacturing, and working in a safety-critical environment
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