Head of Manufacturing

Empower Your Future: At Met Ox International, we’re pioneering the next era of energy security and abundance through breakthrough superconducting technology. As Head of Manufacturing, you’ll join a dynamic team committed to strengthening the world’s energy systems to make them more resilient, efficient, and reliable.

Based at our global headquarters in Houston, TX, the Head of Manufacturing leads the manufacturing organization and owns the operating system that converts Met Ox's advanced technology into safe, reliable, repeatable, and scalable production. This leader has responsibility for Production, Maintenance, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Quality, and Yield, integrating these functions into one disciplined manufacturing organization with clear priorities, metrics, accountability, and operating rhythms.

The Head of Manufacturing brings the rigor of semiconductor, superconducting, advanced materials, or similarly complex manufacturing environments to Met Ox's rapidly scaling operations. This leader establishes the systems, processes, organizational capabilities, and culture required to improve yield, increase equipment reliability, expand capacity, control cost, and consistently deliver against production commitments.

This role requires an executive who combines strategic manufacturing leadership with a strong presence on the factory floor. The successful leader uses data to drive decisions, creates accountability across functions and levels, develops strong leaders, and builds a culture where safety, quality, yield, equipment performance, and production execution operate as an integrated system.

Key Responsibilities

Manufacturing Strategy and Operational Leadership

• Rapidly assesses the existing pilot line team, closes critical gaps, and establishes clear accountability across all functions.
• Develops and executes a manufacturing strategy calibrated to Met Ox's R&D/manufacturing hybrid reality, with an aggressive roadmap toward repeatable, high-yield commercial production.
• Establishes clear KPIs, tiered operating reviews, and escalation protocols, driving accountability and consistent execution across the organization.
• Develops site-level organizational structures, hiring plans, and operational governance frameworks for new or expanding manufacturing locations, ensuring each site launches with the right leadership and systems in place before production begins.
• Builds organizational capabilities and systems that support growth and future site expansion.
• Leads from the front, maintaining a highly visible, active presence on the manufacturing floor.

Manufacturing Excellence and SPC

• Introduces and enforces semiconductor-grade manufacturing discipline: standard work, Statistical Process Control (SPC), process capability analysis, DOE, tiered daily management, visual management, and structured problem-solving.
• Uses SPC and statistical methods as primary tools to identify variation sources, drive process capability improvement, and deliver measurable yield gains with speed and precision.
• Ensures chronic issues have clear ownership, root-cause analysis, and timely corrective action through resolution.
• Partners with Engineering and R&D to establish manufacturing readiness criteria, define process windows, and execute production-readiness qualification with rigorous change control.
• Builds the data infrastructure needed to enable fact-based decision-making across the organization.
• Drives improvements in cycle time, labor productivity, material utilization, equipment utilization, yield, and OEE.

R&D Partnership and Hybrid Operations

• Serves as the primary manufacturing partner to R&D, translating experimental processes into stable, repeatable production.
• Applies engineering first principles to manufacturing challenges; comfortable engaging with process data, deposition chemistry, equipment physics, and materials characterization directly.
• Defines and enforces clear manufacturing readiness criteria; holds the line on when a process is production-ready versus still in development.
• Drives yield as a shared, relentlessly tracked organizational priority across Manufacturing and R&D.

Production and Delivery

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