Factory Integration Manager

Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.

To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737

MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.

Amca is seeking a Factory Integration Manager to support the COO and CFO in diligence, post‑acquisition integration, operations standardization, new product introduction, and hands‑on issue resolution across our network of factories.

• Support operational diligence on potential acquisition targets, with a focus on manufacturing capability, quality systems, production capacity, delivery performance, supply chain health, and facility readiness.
• Assess the maturity of each target’s manufacturing processes, including shop floor layout, production controls, inspection methods, special processes, tooling, work instructions, and production planning systems.
• Evaluate the target company’s QMS, certifications, customer approvals, audit history, nonconformance trends, corrective action systems, and readiness for continued aerospace and defense production.
• Identify operational risks that may affect valuation, integration planning, customer continuity, or post‑close investment requirements.
• Develop an initial post‑acquisition operating plan, including key risks, priority improvement areas, staffing gaps, equipment needs, systems changes, and near‑term integration actions.
• Partner with commercial, engineering, quality, finance, and legal diligence teams to translate operational findings into business plan assumptions.
• Build a prioritized 30/60/90‑day integration roadmap for each acquisition, tailored to the company’s size, customer base, regulatory requirements, and operational maturity.

• Lead factory and operational integration immediately following close, ensuring a smooth transition into the Amca network of factories.
• Work directly with the acquired company’s GM and functional leaders to stabilize operations, maintain customer delivery commitments, and preserve critical tribal knowledge.
• Drive execution of the initial integration roadmap, including improvements to production planning, quality management, IT equipment, manufacturing equipment and processes, reporting cadence, inventory control, supplier management, and customer communication.
• Establish clear operating rhythms with site leadership, including weekly performance reviews, issue escalation forums, KPI tracking, and cross‑functional problem‑solving routines.
• Identify and close gaps in leadership, process ownership, documentation, training, and accountability across manufacturing and quality functions.
• Develop and deploy common operating standards across our factories while preserving site‑specific processes where required by customer, product, or regulatory needs.
• Standardize core QMS practices, including document control, corrective action, nonconformance management, internal audits, supplier quality, calibration, training records, and management review.
• Create common reporting templates and KPI definitions for delivery, quality, backlog, capacity, inventory, labor efficiency, supplier performance, and customer escalations.
• Establish standard processes for new product introduction, including production readiness reviews, first article inspection, qualification planning, work instruction release, tooling readiness, and handoff from engineering to production.
• Help define factory‑wide best practices for production planning, job travelers, inspection plans, material flow, inventory controls, and…