Robot Production Lead: Build, Scale & Quality

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave is building practical, delightful robots and is expanding its assembly and manufacturing teams. You’ll lead the floor that builds our robots, coordinating machining, wire harness fabrication, subassemblies, final assembly, and test to keep schedules and quality high.

You’ll partner with engineering to feed shop learnings back into design. You’ll run weekly production planning, coach technicians, develop processes, and report performance metrics while fostering craftsmanship and continuous

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading assembly, manufacturing, or production teams.
• Strong understanding of mechanical assemblies, manufacturing documentation, bills of materials, and engineering drawings.
• Hands-on leadership on the production floor coaching technicians and solving problems.
• Ability to collaborate with mechanical, electrical, robotics, and manufacturing engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the build schedule: plan weekly production, sequence work across stations, and hit delivery dates.
• Manage the production team day to day: coordinate machinists and assembly technicians, staffing, scheduling, and training.
• Develop assembly processes: establish and improve assembly procedures, work instructions, and quality checkpoints.
• Track and report production metrics: units per week, first pass yield, cycle time, rework and scrap trends.
• Maintain process discipline: ensure instructions followed, deviations documented, no undocumented workarounds.
• Inventory management: maintain supply of parts and plan around shortages.
• Own build quality: ensure robots meet quality standards through inspection and testing.
• Build the team: onboard new technicians and build training matrix.
• Bridge engineering and production: feed manufacturing insights back to engineering.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Technical aptitude

Hands-on leadership

Partner with engineering

Strong people leadership

Job description

Weave is building practical, delightful robots and is expanding its assembly and manufacturing teams. You’ll lead the floor that builds our robots, coordinating machining, wire harness fabrication, subassemblies, final assembly, and test to keep schedules and quality high.

You’ll partner with engineering to feed shop learnings back into design. You’ll run weekly production planning, coach technicians, develop processes, and report performance metrics while fostering craftsmanship and continuous