Spacecraft Production Control Manager

The role

You will own manufacturing scheduling, production coordination, and material readiness across satellite production work centers. You will build and lead the production control function to decide what is built and when it starts.

What you will do

• Own Production Control operations including manufacturing scheduling, production coordination, work order readiness, and WIP management
• Grow the Production Control team by hiring and developing team members
• Own the integrated factory schedule translating delivery milestones into rate-based vehicle takt and work order lists
• Develop hardware allocation scenarios to align stakeholders on build priority
• Establish manufacturing readiness processes covering material, work orders, tooling, labor, and engineering
• Develop production control systems including automated schedules and readiness models
• Monitor MRP and partner with Supply Chain to resolve shortages
• Conduct capacity analysis and recommend staffing, capex, and process recommendations
• Establish and monitor KPIs covering schedule attainment, readiness, WIP, flow, and on-time delivery
• Lead root-cause and corrective action for schedule slips and communicate risks to leadership

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in production control, scheduling, or production planning in a high volume, rapid production environment in aerospace, defense, or complex hardware manufacturing industries
• 3+ years of experience managing schedulers, planners, or coordinators
• Experience building or scaling a production control or planning function
• Experience owning a factory-level production schedule through a rate ramp
• Deep working knowledge of build trees, BOMs, routings, work orders, MRP/ERP and MES data flow
• Experience building capacity and scheduling models that drive start, staffing, and capex decisions
• Strong floor-presence experience partnering with supervisors, engineering, and leadership

Nice to have

• Experience in spacecraft, launch vehicle, defense, or complex electromechanical manufacturing
• Experience with production analytics: Smartsheet, SQL, Python, or Power BI tools
• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, operations research, supply chain, or a related engineering field

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license

About the company

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown for missions from LEO to deep space. The company is mass-producing satellite platforms and is a high-growth Series D-funded company.