Director of Industrialization

The role

The Director of Industrialization will stand up production lines to move the company from pilot production into volume manufacturing. You will own the manufacturing strategy, equipment definition, commissioning schedule, and production ramp for new factories.

What you will do

• Own the industrialization roadmap from pilot to rate production
• Build and maintain manufacturing capacity and cost models
• Partner with Pilot Manufacturing to define build strategies
• Partner with Supply Chain on make-versus-buy decisions
• Contribute manufacturing requirements to site selection and facility planning
• Develop facility layouts and material flow plans
• Provide manufacturability feedback to engineering
• Own the production equipment strategy and major equipment list
• Lead equipment specification, vendor evaluation, and selection
• Manage the manufacturing capital plan and budgets

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, industrialization, or manufacturing operations, including time in a technical leadership role
• Direct experience taking a product or process from prototype or pilot production through installation, qualification, and rate production
• Demonstrated ownership of a manufacturing capital plan, including equipment specification, vendor selection, budgeting, and installation and commissioning schedules
• Strong quantitative skills and fluency building capacity, cost, and ramp models
• Experience defining and executing a production ramp
• Experience translating product designs into executable build strategies, process documentation, and station-level work content
• Willingness to operate as a hands-on individual contributor now and build a team later
• Experience leading through influence across engineering, supply chain, quality, and site operations without direct authority
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Comfort operating with incomplete information in a fast-moving environment
• Regular on-site presence in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington
• Significant travel is expected, including to equipment vendors, contract manufacturers, candidate sites, and new facilities

Nice to have

• Experience industrializing large welded steel structures, pressure-retaining assemblies, marine vessels, or comparable large-format fabricated hardware
• Experience with waterfront manufacturing, shipyard or fabrication yard operations, or load-out and launch of large assemblies
• Experience scaling from prototype or pilot production into volume manufacturing at a hardware startup
• Experience hiring and building a manufacturing engineering or industrialization team from a small base
• Experience selecting and deploying automation, robotic welding, or large-envelope machining and inspection systems
• Familiarity with enterprise systems that support production, including PLM, ERP, MRP, MES, and QMS
• Experience with contract manufacturers, including qualification, technology transfer, and rate readiness
• Experience in high-consequence or capital-intensive industries such as aerospace, defense, energy, shipbuilding, automotive, or advanced manufacturing
• Working knowledge of facility and industrial infrastructure requirements for heavy manufacturing

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Health insurance (100% paid for employees, partners, and dependents)
• Dental insurance (100% paid for employees, partners, and dependents)
• Vision insurance (100% paid for employees, partners, and dependents)
• Disability insurance (100% paid for a policy to provide long-term financial support)
• Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
• Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed)

About the company

Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to developing technologies to unlock the energy potential of oceans. The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon.