CTO

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The CTO owns Invent Wood's manufacturing technology strategy from SUPERMILL TWO onward. This is a rare role at the intersection of deep process engineering, capital-intensive industrial scale-up, and platform design - because the objective is not to build one more mill, but to architect a replicable, modular manufacturing system that gets better, cheaper, and faster with every iteration.

With SUPERMILL ONE we successfully achieved commercial production at an industrial scale, and with SUPERMILL TWO we are bringing it to large scale. Next will be taking it into a global fleet of manufacturing plants, producing at a scale that can have impact across the planet. We're looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead that journey.

Invent Wood has successfully commercialized SUPERWOOD with the strength of steel and the soul and beauty of wood. It is a new category of aesthetic and structural material which can transform the built environment and lead to better lives for humans and the environment.

With SUPERMILL ONE we successfully achieved commercial production at an industrial scale, and with SUPERMILL TWO we are bringing it to large scale. Next will be taking it into a global fleet of manufacturing plants, producing at a scale that can have impact across the planet. We're looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead that journey.

The CTO owns Invent Wood's manufacturing technology strategy from SUPERMILL TWO onward. This is a rare role at the intersection of deep process engineering, capital-intensive industrial scale-up, and platform design - because the objective is not to build one more mill, but to architect a replicable, modular manufacturing system that gets better, cheaper, and faster with every iteration.

You will translate continuing R&D innovation into manufacturable reality. You will design the next generations of SUPERMILLS so each plant costs less, ramps faster, and produces a wider range of products than the last. And you will build the technical organization — process and equipment engineers, automation and controls specialists, data and AI teams — that makes a fleet of mills possible.

You will report to the CEO and partner closely with the CSO, who owns the science and R&D, and with the operations leaders who run production day to day. Your success will be measured in dollars per pound, tons per year, time-to-first-output on each new mill, and the breadth of products SUPERWOOD can credibly address.

• Define and own the multi-year technology roadmap carrying SUPERMILL TWO through the next generations of facilities, with explicit targets for unit cost, throughput, capital intensity, and build timeline.
• Translate the ambition of world-transforming scale into a concrete sequence of technology bets - process intensification, equipment standardization, automation, digitalization, feedstock strategy - with clear milestones and capital requirements.

• Architect SUPERMILLS as a platform, not a series of bespoke plants: standardized unit operations, modular production cells, and reusable mechanical, electrical, and digital designs that compress time and capital for every subsequent build.
• Drive a learning curve that is captured in the design of each mill - so that SUPERMILL FOUR is meaningfully cheaper and faster to stand up than SUPERMILL THREE, and the delta grows with every iteration.
• Lead the internal engineering discipline, and work with external EPC partners, equipment vendors, and fabricators to deliver replicable facility designs at pace.