Senior Manager, Assembly Operations

The role

The Senior Manager, Assembly Operations manages Core, Module, and Harness Assembly at the Cedar Park facility. This role transitions KARNO production from development builds to repeatable production through SQDCP performance and continuous improvement.

What you will do

• Own Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People (SQDCP) performance
• Build a safety-first culture including high-voltage and heavy lifting environments
• Partner with Quality to improve first-pass yield and drive root cause corrective action
• Translate production schedules into staffing, shift, and capacity plans
• Control labor efficiency, scrap, rework, and consumables
• Identify gaps in work instructions, tooling, and fixtures during production transition
• Establish takt, line balance, and flow as volumes ramp
• Lead production readiness for new builds and process transfers
• Implement practical standard work and run kaizen events
• Lead, coach, and develop assembly supervisors

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations management, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 10+ years of manufacturing operations experience
• 5+ years leading supervisors or front-line leaders in an assembly environment
• Demonstrated track record of scaling an assembly operation
• Hands-on lean/TPS practitioner with documented, measurable improvement results
• Experience in complex, labor-intensive, low-to-mid volume assembly
• Strong command of SQDCP, tiered daily management, and visual management
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, evolving designs, and incomplete documentation
• Clear, direct communication
• Ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods on the production floor
• Ability to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)

Nice to have

• Heavy assembly experience in engines, generators, turbines, compressors, power systems, or other capital equipment
• High-precision electromechanical assembly experience
• Wire harness or electrical assembly experience
• Experience with aerospace, defense, or similarly rigorous quality systems (AS9100, PPAP, FMEA, control plans)
• Experience in a pre-commercial, startup, or high-growth manufacturing environment
• Lean or Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or Black Belt)

Benefits

• Medical Plans, with PPO or HDHP options
• Dental Plans, with buy-up option
• Vision Plan
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plans, with buy-up options
• Short Term Disability, paid for by the company
• Long Term Disability, paid for by the company
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401k/Roth 401k
• Voluntary Accident Plans
• Voluntary Critical Illness Plans
• Hospital Indemnity Plan

Before you apply

• We are not accepting candidates who require sponsorship for this role at this time

About the company

Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources.