Build Engineering Manager, Commodities & NPI

Telemetry Today LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life ins.

401k

Relocation assistance

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is seeking a Manager, Build Engineering – Commodities to lead the team responsible for how commodity parts are manufactured across machining, tube & pipe, and sheet metal. You will own end-to-end NPI for these parts, from first article through qualification, ramp, and transition into standard production, and you will be accountable for build outcomes of every engineer on your team.

Your team will define how parts flow through the factory, establish processes, and collaborate with Supply

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of experience in build, production, or manufacturing engineering with hands-on NPI or zero-to-one efforts.
• 2+ years of experience leading or managing a team of engineers in a manufacturing environment, or demonstrated informal technical leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• Hands‑on depth in machining, tube and pipe, or sheet metal fabrication, and working knowledge of the other two.
• Strong ability to interpret and define product requirements from customer specifications, engineering drawings, GD&T, and contract requirements.
• Experience structuring BOMs, work orders, and work instructions in PLM, ERP, or MES systems, including engineering change and configuration management.
• Demonstrated success coordinating across engineering, supply chain, quality, and production functions to deliver complex or first‑of‑kind builds.
• Ability to make sound decisions under schedule pressure with incomplete or evolving information.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to align technicians, engineers, and leadership around a single execution plan.
• Able to work on-site at our factory and travel regularly to our Cherokee, AL factory, up to 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of Build Engineers across machining, tube and pipe, and sheet metal, and own hiring, staffing, and leveling decisions for the team.
• Own commodity-level new product introduction (NPI) outcomes, from requirements definition and subscale development through first article and stabilized production, for every part your team supports.
• Make sure your team interprets and defines product requirements from customer specifications, drawings, and contracts before build plans are set.
• Set a common standard for product requirements definition, build plans, high-level process definitions, BOM structures, work orders, and Opus work instructions across all three commodities, and for how they are managed in Hadrian's PLM, ERP, and MES systems.
• Tie the work of individual Build Engineers into one coherent execution plan, setting sequencing, prioritization, and risk mitigation across commodities and the product programs they serve.
• Make sure Capability Engineering receives complete, stable process definitions early enough to select equipment that meets rate and quality requirements.
• Own make/buy recommendations across commodities, balancing in-house cell capacity against supplier capability with Supply Chain and Quality.
• Drive shared development work across the team, such as subscale development articles, weld joint qualification (PQR/WPS), fixturing, and datum strategy, so each commodity doesn't solve the same problem separately.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Capability Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Tooling Engineering, Quality, and Test to unblock constraints before they impact the build.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for commodity build issues, resolving problems with drawings, tolerances, tooling, materials, and process flow in real time.
• Lead the transfer of qualified processes and first article builds from development into new production cells, keeping ownership explicit at each handoff.
• Represent the commodities team in program reviews, cross-functional planning, and leadership updates.
• Drive lessons learned across builds and transition stabilized processes into standard production.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience

Tools

PLM systems

ERP

MES

GD&T

Job description

Hadrian is seeking a Manager, Build Engineering – Commodities to lead the team responsible for how commodity parts are manufactured across machining, tube & pipe, and sheet metal. You will own end-to-end NPI for these parts, from first article through qualification, ramp, and transition into standard production, and you will be accountable for build outcomes of every engineer on your team.

Your team will define how parts flow through the factory, establish processes, and collaborate with Supply