Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.

To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.

Overview:

Amca is seeking a Factory Integration Manager to support the COO and CFO in diligence, post-acquisition integration, operations standardization, new product introduction, and hands-on issue resolution across our network of factories.

Responsibilities

Diligence & Business Planning — Pre-Acquisition

Support operational diligence on potential acquisition targets, with a focus on manufacturing capability, quality systems, production capacity, delivery performance, supply chain health, and facility readiness.

Assess the maturity of each target’s manufacturing processes, including shop floor layout, production controls, inspection methods, special processes, tooling, work instructions, and production planning systems.

Evaluate the target company’s QMS, certifications, customer approvals, audit history, nonconformance trends, corrective action systems, and readiness for continued aerospace and defense production.

Identify operational risks that may affect valuation, integration planning, customer continuity, or post-close investment requirements.

Develop an initial post-acquisition operating plan, including key risks, priority improvement areas, staffing gaps, equipment needs, systems changes, and near-term integration actions.

Partner with commercial, engineering, quality, finance, and legal diligence teams to translate operational findings into business plan assumptions.

Build a prioritized 30/60/90-day integration roadmap for each acquisition, tailored to the company’s size, customer base, regulatory requirements, and operational maturity.

Post-Acquisition Integration

Lead factory and operational integration immediately following close, ensuring a smooth transition into the Amca network of factories.

Work directly with the acquired company’s GM and functional leaders to stabilize operations, maintain customer delivery commitments, and preserve critical tribal knowledge.

Drive execution of the initial integration roadmap, including improvements to production planning, quality management, IT equipment, manufacturing equipment and processes, reporting cadence, inventory control, supplier management, and customer communication.

Establish clear operating rhythms with site leadership, including weekly performance reviews, issue escalation forums, KPI tracking, and cross-functional problem-solving routines.

Identify and close gaps in leadership, process ownership, documentation, training, and accountability across manufacturing and quality functions.

Standardization Across Our Factories

Develop and deploy common operating standards across our factories while preserving site-specific processes where required by customer, product, or regulatory needs.

Standardize core QMS practices, including document control, corrective action, nonconformance management, internal audits, supplier quality, calibration, training records, and management review.

Create common reporting templates and KPI definitions for delivery, quality, backlog, capacity, inventory, labor efficiency, supplier performance, and customer escalations.

Establish standard processes for new product introduction, including production readiness reviews, first article inspection, qualification planning, work instruction release, tooling readiness, and handoff from engineering to production

Help define factory-wide best practices for production planning, job travelers, inspection plans, material flow, inventory controls, and make/buy decisions.

Identify successful practices at one company and transfer them across the factories where applicable.

Support the implementation of common systems, tools, and dashboards that improve visibility, accountability, and operating consistency across companies.

Ongoing Operational Support & Issue Resolution

Serve as a hands-on operating partner to each company’s GM for acute factory, delivery, quality, customer, or compliance issues.

Contribute to the introduction of new products at factories

Support audit preparation for customer, AS9100, regulatory, or government audits, including readiness assessments, documentation reviews, internal audit support, and corrective action closure.

Help sites respond to delivery challenges by identifying production bottlenecks, supplier constraints, capacity issues, labor gaps, planning failures, or quality-related disruptions.

Assist with quality escapes, major nonconformances, customer complaints, and corrective action efforts, ensuring problems are contained, root causes are identified, and sustainable fixes are implemented.

Provide surge support during critical customer escalations, production recoveries, supplier disruptions, certification renewals, facility moves, or major process changes.

Work with site leadership to develop practical recovery plans with clear owners, timelines, metrics, and escalation paths.

Monitor operational health across our factories and proactively flag emerging risks before they become customer, compliance, or financial problems.

Coach site teams on problem-solving, operating discipline, cross-functional communication, and continuous improvement practices.

Act as a bridge between company-level operators and Amca leadership, ensuring issues are clearly communicated, appropriately resourced, and driven to resolution.

Drive Factory Culture Initiatives & Amca Communication

Build a strong culture across factories, reinforcing the things that matter at Amca: ownership, speed, taking care of customers, and pride in quality.

Make sure site leaders and shop floor teams understand Amca's mission and priorities, and help newly acquired companies fit into the network without losing what made them good in the first place.

Keep communication flowing between the factories and Amca leadership through regular updates, recognition for good work, and chances to share wins and lessons across sites.

Connect teams across companies so good ideas and fixes spread quickly instead of staying stuck at one site.

Catch people and culture problems early, like low morale or gaps in leadership, and work with site leaders and Amca executives to sort them out before they grow.

Qualifications:

Required

Technically fluent and commercially sharp; can bridge engineering, operations, and customer needs seamlessly

Earns trust quickly through clarity, rigor, and follow-through

Executes fast, iterates faster, and scales what works

Action-oriented; moves quickly from discovery to execution

Detail-oriented without losing sight of big-picture business goals

Comfortable operating in ambiguity and prioritizing among competing opportunities

Thrives in a high-velocity, high-expectation environment

Strong data processing and visualization skills

Preferred

Experience directly leading operational teams

Additional Requirements

Must be able to travel as needed in response to business needs with short notice.
Must be able to work extended hours, including weekends, as needed to meet business needs.

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or. any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).

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