Senior Manager, Composite Production & Scale-Up

Praxy; North Kingstown, Northern (RI, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation packages available

Daily catered lunches

Competitive compensation

Job summary

REGENT is seeking a Senior Manager, Composite Production to own the full composite production organization, including engineering, maintenance, and production teams. You will implement standard work, maintain equipment uptime, and build a training pipeline to scale a workforce as we move from prototype to production.

You'll lead through a layer of shift leads and supervisors, drive quality control and preventive maintenance, and partner with Advanced Engineering to validate process robustness

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in composite manufacturing across engineering, maintenance, and production.
• Experience leading through shift leads and supervisors to scale operations.
• Maintenance and reliability for composite process equipment (autoclaves, ovens, presses).
• Ability to scale production workforce with training programs and certifications.
• Turn fixes into standardized, trained, sustained production work across large teams.
• Hands-on knowledge of prepreg, wet layup, vacuum bagging, cure, trim, and bonding.
• Familiarity with quality systems and production metrics (SPC, CAPA, MES).

Responsibilities

• Own composite production performance end to end across engineering, maintenance, and production.
• Lead through a management layer of shift leads and supervisors to enable scalable operations.
• Systematize engineered fixes into standard work and auditable processes.
• Own equipment reliability with preventive maintenance and uptime tracking.
• Build workforce training paths and certification levels for rapid upskilling.
• Run quality control at scale with control plans and corrective actions.
• Partner with Advanced Engineering to validate process robustness before full production.

Skills

Composite manufacturing

Leadership through leads

Equipment maintenance

Workforce scaling

Standard work

Quality control

MES familiarity

MBOM routing

Process discipline

Automation familiarity

Tools

MES

MBOM routing

Job description

REGENT is seeking a Senior Manager, Composite Production to own the full composite production organization, including engineering, maintenance, and production teams. You will implement standard work, maintain equipment uptime, and build a training pipeline to scale a workforce as we move from prototype to production.

You'll lead through a layer of shift leads and supervisors, drive quality control and preventive maintenance, and partner with Advanced Engineering to validate process robustness