Head of Production
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What you need
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 4+ yrs building spaceflight or high-reliability hardware
- Experience taking product from prototype to repeatable production
- Experience writing work instructions and nonconformance processes
What you'll do
- Build and scale production of deployable space structures
- Lead production team and shop from the ground up
- Establish quality processes and nonconformance systems
- Manage supply chain and hardware build teams
They say the best deployable is no deployable, but we believe large deployable mechanisms are the future for large infrastructure in space.
At Beyond Reach Labs, we are designing and building the largest deployable structures ever flown to space. As an engineering-driven organization, you will be at the forefront of the company's key technology development.
To make this possible, our deployables need to move from hand-built prototypes to a repeatable, qualified production line. As Head of Production, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and leading the production of our deployable structures, from the first qualification and flight units to production at volume. You will be entrusted to build the shop, processes, and team from the ground up.
Key Responsibilities:
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Build and Integration:
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Quality and Process:
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Supply Chain and Team:
Basic Qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
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4+ years of experience building spaceflight, launch vehicle, or similar high-reliability hardware.
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Experience taking at least one product from prototype to repeatable production.
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Experience writing work instructions, travelers, and nonconformance processes for flight hardware.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience standing up a production team or facility from zero.
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Working knowledge of AS9100 quality systems.
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Experience with deployable mechanisms, solar arrays, or cable-tensioned structures.
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Supplier development experience for precision machining, composites, or coatings.
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Project management experience for hardware builds.
Additional Requirements:
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Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to support critical project milestones.
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Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for authorization under U.S. export regulations.
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About Beyond Reach Labs
At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.
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