Production Manager

About Aalo Atomics

Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced microreactors.

Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.

Aalo is scaling from building reactors to building them in volume. The Production Manager owns that outcome. You will lead a team of Production Supervisors and their technicians, own the performance of the production department end to end, and be personally accountable for whether hardware ships on time, on cost, and right the first time. You will spend your days making resourcing calls, killing recurring problems permanently, and building the leaders who run the floor.

This role is for someone who takes total ownership of a number and does not accept that the current rate is the best possible rate.

• Own production output for the department — safety, quality, throughput, cost, and on-time delivery
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Production Supervisors; build a leadership bench that can scale with the company
• Translate the master production schedule into an executable plan; own capacity, staffing levels, and shift structure to meet it
• Drive consistency of standards, process, and performance across all shifts and lines
• Set and track departmental metrics; use data to identify constraints and eliminate them permanently rather than repeatedly working around them
• Own the department's labor and operating budget; make and defend build-vs-buy, repair-vs-replace, and capital investment decisions
• Partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Design Engineering to resolve systemic issues in process, tooling, materials, and design for manufacturability
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective actions on significant quality escapes, safety events, and schedule misses
• Plan and execute production ramp — hiring, training pipelines, layout, tooling, and process readiness ahead of demand
• Champion a strong safety culture and full compliance with regulatory, quality system, and documentation requirements
• Recruit, hire, and manage performance across the department
• Report department status, risks, and recovery plans clearly to senior leadership

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, business, or a related field; OR high school diploma or equivalency certificate and 8+ years of progressive manufacturing experience
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing or production operations environment
• 3+ years of experience directly managing people, including managing supervisors, leads, or other people managers

• Experience managing production in a regulated or high-consequence industry (nuclear, aerospace, defense, medical device, ASME code fabrication)
• Demonstrated record of ramping a product from low-rate to serial production
• Strong command of lean manufacturing and operational excellence — value stream mapping, takt, standard work, TPM, statistical problem solving
• Experience owning a departmental P&L or operating budget
• Experience implementing or scaling MES/ERP systems and shop floor data capture
• Familiarity with nuclear quality assurance requirements (10 CFR 50 Appendix B, NQA-1) or equivalent regulated QMS (AS9100, ISO 13485)
• Experience hiring and building teams quickly in a high-growth environment
• Track record of developing supervisors into higher levels of responsibility