AV Assembly & Production Scaling Lead
Outrider
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Job summary
Outrider seeks a Senior Manager to lead and scale the upfit, assembly, integration, inspection, test, and verification of autonomous vehicles built on base electric trucks. This hands-on leadership role covers safety, people, quality, delivery, inventory, cost, facilities, and continuous improvement at the CO HQ.
You will own end-to-end manufacturing blueprinting, partner with OEMs and contract manufacturers, and drive production readiness for high-volume, repeatable production in a fast-paced
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, or a related technical discipline.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in assembly, production, manufacturing engineering, or advanced manufacturing of vehicles, complex hardware, or electromechanical systems, including 3+ years leading manufacturing or technician teams.
- Demonstrated success taking an assembly or manufacturing operation from concept or low-volume production through commercial scale.
- Experience in automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, industrial automation, or similarly complex hardware.
- Strong knowledge of mechanical and electrical assembly, vehicle wiring/harnesses, sensors, compute hardware, and integrated electromechanical systems.
- Deep knowledge of assembly process design, line balancing, manufacturing layout, tooling, material flow, capacity planning, and production optimization.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end conversion of base electric trucks into fully integrated Outrider autonomous vehicles.
- Develop and execute the assembly roadmap for scaling from low-volume builds to efficient, repeatable, high quality commercial production.
- Lead daily assembly operations and a high-performing team of vehicle assembly and integration technicians to achieve safety, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.
- Design and optimize process flow, line layout, workstations, tooling, material presentation, staffing, capacity, and manufacturing footprint.
- Establish standard work, technician instructions, training and qualification programs, inspection criteria, production controls, and build documentation.
- Develop internal-versus-external manufacturing strategies and establish scalable processes with OEM and contract manufacturing partners.
- Work closely with commercial, engineering and operations cross-functional teams on production planning and cost efficiency.
- Oversee Outrider facilities
- Drive Quality & Operational Excellence
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Job description
Outrider seeks a Senior Manager to lead and scale the upfit, assembly, integration, inspection, test, and verification of autonomous vehicles built on base electric trucks. This hands-on leadership role covers safety, people, quality, delivery, inventory, cost, facilities, and continuous improvement at the CO HQ.
You will own end-to-end manufacturing blueprinting, partner with OEMs and contract manufacturers, and drive production readiness for high-volume, repeatable production in a fast-paced
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