Job Description
The Head of Manufacturing at Gatik is responsible for leading the scaling, optimization, and quality assurance of high-volume production of autonomous freight vehicles, managing manufacturing operations, supply chain, and retrofit programs to ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency in a safety-critical environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead vehicle manufacturing operations for high-volume production of autonomous freight vehicles.
- Manage relationships with external contract manufacturing partners to ensure quality, throughput, and cost efficiency.
- Plan and optimize factory floor layout, production processes, and manufacturing flow.
- Develop and implement scalable manufacturing and quality strategies in compliance with safety and regulatory standards.
- Oversee field retrofit and upgrade programs for vehicles in operation, coordinating with service, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
- Support hardware repairs, recalls, and critical service escalations to ensure vehicle reliability.
- Establish and enforce manufacturing procedures, build documentation, and quality processes following automotive industry best practices.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to bring vehicle designs into reliable production and drive continuous improvement in cost, yield, and performance.
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 production and quality strategies, and working in a safety-critical environment
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