Manufacturing Process Lead, Automated Solutions

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Are you ready to shape how cutting-edge technologies are positioned, understood, and adopted by real markets? At Venture One, we build ventures and commercialize breakthrough technologies emerging from advanced research. Our focus spans Aerospace and Space, Security and Defense, Sustainability, Environment and Energy, and Transportation, with technologies across Cryptography, Secure Systems, Directed Energy, Advanced Materials, Autonomous Systems, and more.

Are you ready to shape how cutting-edge technologies are positioned, understood, and adopted by real markets? At Venture One, we build ventures and commercialize breakthrough technologies emerging from advanced research. Our focus spans Aerospace and Space, Security and Defense, Sustainability, Environment and Energy, and Transportation, with technologies across Cryptography, Secure Systems, Directed Energy, Advanced Materials, Autonomous Systems, and more.

The Manufacturing Process Lead acts as the Factory Process Owner across a multi-package industrial automation program, owning the end-to-end manufacturing process architecture from incoming material through RM Storage, CNC machining, Surface treatment, Assembly lines, testing, Painting, Packaging, FG storage and dispatch.

The role defines and maintains the As-Is & To-Be manufacturing processes, process assessment report, process flow diagrams, capacity and takt models, material flows, and process interfaces across automation packages. Working closely with Production team, engineering team and digital/MES teams, the role ensures that process have correctly mapped as per business benefits. The candidate should have fluent communication and experience in presenting to CXOs and Management.

The role also provides the manufacturing-process bridge between the physical factory and enterprise/digital systems, ensuring that shop-floor processes are correctly represented in MES, SAP, WMS, planning, quality, and traceability solutions.

• Act as the end-to-end Factory Process Owner, defining and governing manufacturing processes across machining, surface treatment, painting, assembly, testing, storage, intralogistics, packaging, and supporting operations.
• Develop and maintain As-Is and To-Be process maps, process flow diagrams, swimlane diagrams, value-stream maps, product routings, and cross-functional process/interface flows.
• Lead process workshops with operations, engineering, quality, logistics, digital teams, and vendors to define process requirements, responsibilities, hand-offs, exceptions, rework loops, and system interactions.
• Own and validate takt-time, cycle-time, capacity, line-balancing, equipment-sizing, bottleneck, WIP, and buffer analyses against required production volumes and product mix.
• Provide manufacturing-process ownership for the factory layout, ensuring efficient process adjacency, material flow, minimum travel, logistics routes, maintenance access, space utilization, and future scalability.
• Define and optimize material movement, kitting, replenishment, buffering, and handover concepts between production processes and AS/RS, conveyors, AGVs/AMRs, WMS, and other intralogistics systems.
• Review and challenge engineering designs, including process assumptions, cycle times, equipment quantities, automation concepts, changeovers, capacity, layouts, and operational sequences.
• Define process-level interfaces between equipment, automation, intralogistics, inspection/testing, and digital systems, ensuring gaps and overlaps between vendor packages are identified and resolved.
• Work with Digital / IT-OT teams to translate factory processes into MES/SAP/WMS requirements, including routings, work-center logic, production execution, material consumption, confirmations, quality gates, traceability, rework, and exception handling.
• Ensure alignment between physical manufacturing processes and digital workflows, while coordinating with specialist SAP/MES teams responsible for detailed system configuration.
• Support preparation of process specifications, operating concepts, process documentation, SOP inputs, acceptance criteria, and Digital Twin / factory simulation inputs.
• Participate in FAT, SAT, integrated commissioning, and production trials. Validate actual process sequences, interfaces, cycle times, throughput, buffer behavior, and end-to-end takt achievement.
• Lead industrial engineering and process optimization during ramp-up and stabilization, identifying bottlenecks and…