US Manufacturing and Fulfillment Manager

Created by a team of busy parents, professionals, cooks, and food-lovers who care about what we eat, how we live, and where our food comes from, Gardyn designs and develops high density, intelligent, plug-n-play vertical gardens for the cultivation of top-quality produce anywhere, all year, and in any climate.

Featured as TIME’S Invention of the Year, our indoor vertical Gardyns improve lifestyle, health, and the environment by providing tasty, affordable, nutritious greens and fruits without sacrificing design, space, or resources. With already producing over 2 million pounds of Gardyn produce with no pesticide, no waste and 95% less water, we are here to help shape the future of food by leveraging new technologies, for less impact on the environment and giving access to healthy, tasty, nutritious food to all.

• Radical Candor:
  It is not about being right or wrong or saving face. What we care most about is to make the right decisions for the company.
• Freedom and Responsibility:
  Everybody at Gardyn is an adult and should be able to make the best decisions on their own with the best interest of the company in mind.
• Impact:
  We want to move the needle big time in everything we do, on the way the company is working, our business, our customers.
• Transparency and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  We care deeply for our customers, our colleagues, and for all that we are doing, how and why. It is not about ourselves; it is about what we want to accomplish as an organization.

Own end-to-end in-house production and fulfillment as a working manager: set the operating cadence, run the floor, and hit SLA, quality, and cost targets while building the systems, SOPs, and team that let the operation scale with a 12-month rolling forecast.

• Own the daily production plan and personally clear bottlenecks on the floor to sustain strong Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• Keep the finished-goods defect rate low through disciplined IQC (Incoming Quality Control) and IPQC (In-Process Quality Control), closing every issue with timely root-cause analysis (5-Why/CAPA).
• Deliver timely EOM reporting on inventory, material consumption, and production output, reconciled directly against Net Suite with minimal variance.
• Set up and run a formal non-conformance and discrepancy tracking system, resolving issues or assigning corrective action within target SLA.
• Maintain a rolling 12-month manufacturing and fulfillment plan tied to the company forecast, able to absorb demand or supply swings without missing SLA or cost targets.

• Build and enforce a preventive maintenance (PM) schedule with consistently strong on-time completion.
• Run structured inspections of production machinery on a fixed cadence, catching and resolving issues before they cause a line-stopping breakdown.
• Use production and downtime data to identify and ship measurable process or throughput improvements on an ongoing basis.
• Schedule and staff production shifts to achieve a strong production on-time rate, adjusting labor and sequencing in real time to protect the schedule.
• Lead, mentor, and cross-train a high-performing production and fulfillment team, sustaining strong employee satisfaction.
• Develop and maintain clear, current, bilingual (English/Spanish) SOPs for every core production and fulfillment task, reviewed on a regular cadence and used to onboard new hires.
• Conduct regular safety training and floor walks, achieving strong training completion and maintaining zero recordable lost-time incidents.

• Hold fast fulfillment processing times for both spare parts and standard orders,…