Senior Manager, Composite Production

The role

The Senior Manager, Composite Production will own the full composite production organization including engineering, maintenance, and production teams. You will lead through a management layer of shift leads and supervisors to turn composite processes into finished parts at rate.

What you will do

• Hold single-point accountability for quality, yield, equipment uptime, and throughput.
• Build and develop shift leads and supervisors.
• Turn process solutions into trained, auditable standards.
• Run a preventive maintenance program for cure, layup, and trim equipment.
• Build structured training paths and certification levels.
• Run quality control including control plans, SPC checks, and corrective-action processes.
• Partner with Advanced Engineering to validate process robustness.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience in composite manufacturing, including leading a multi-disciplinary organization spanning manufacturing engineering, maintenance, and/or production at meaningful scale.
• Experience running production through a layer of leadership.
• Demonstrated experience running maintenance and reliability for composite process equipment such as autoclaves, ovens, presses, trim and cure systems.
• Experience standing up or growing a production workforce through hiring, org design, and skills development.
• Ability to convert engineered process fixes into standardized, trained, sustained production work.
• Working knowledge of prepreg and wet layup, vacuum bagging, cure, trim, and bonding.
• Fluency in running control plans, SPC, and corrective-action processes at scale.
• Familiarity with MES / MBOM / routing structures.

Nice to have

• Led a composite production organization through a prototype-to-rate ramp in aerospace, marine, or automotive
• Built or scaled a maintenance program for composite process equipment
• Worked with automation (ATL / AFP / FPL, robotic trim, CNC)
• Built a dojo-style training curriculum

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including a robust equity incentive plan
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premium coverage
• 401(k) with company matching
• Generous flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• Company-wide holiday breaks
• Relocation packages available
• Daily, free catered lunches
• Learning & professional development opportunities

About the company

REGENT is on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities with the Seaglider, a wing-in-ground-effect craft. The company is scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production.