Production Line Lead

The role

The Production Line Lead provides technical leadership and hands-on spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing. They coordinate daily production activities and guide Production Technicians to meet schedule, quality, and safety requirements.

What you will do

• Perform hands-on assembly, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and rework of spacecraft components.
• Serve as the first line of support for Production Technicians.
• Coordinate with the Production Supervisor and Production Planner to execute daily priorities.
• Update the Production Supervisor on current line status.
• Adhere to safety, cleanroom, ESD, FOD, and contamination-control practices.
• Assemble and integrate electrical and mechanical spacecraft components and subsystems.
• Perform cable routing, thermal insulation installation, soldering, bonding, and torque-controlled fastener installation.
• Measure, record, test, and document data for quality and traceability.
• Solder and perform PCB handling and in-process inspections per IPC J-STD-001.
• Operate and maintain production equipment, tooling, and QA test benches.

Required qualifications

• High school diploma/GED
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience performing mechanical and/or electrical assembly in a production or manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a formal lead role or equivalent lead-level responsibilities.
• Certified IPC-JSTD-001 Specialist (CIS)

Nice to have

• Previous spacecraft, satellite, aerospace, and other high-reliability electromechanical assembly experience.
• Experience supporting production ramp-up, new product introduction (NPI), or the transition from prototype builds to repeatable manufacturing.
• Experience training and mentoring Production Technicians on complex assembly and test processes.
• Experience reading and interpreting electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, assembly instructions, and technical documentation, with a basic understanding of GD&T.
• WHMA/IPC-A-620 Certification
• IPC-A-610 Certification

Before you apply

• For U.S. Roles: applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
• For U.K. Roles: requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks and eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• For Canada Roles: must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

About the company

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. They are building Pulsar, an advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit.