Head of Operations

finalREV is a startup building the next generation of automated metal part manufacturing. We operate a quick turn CNC machine shop in Berkeley California and build our own software / automation to make our shop work faster, smarter, and more autonomously.

We’re looking for a Head of Operations to join our team. This is a uniquely high-ownership role. You’ll work directly with the founders and have significant influence over how the company operates, how we deploy capital, and how we scale.

• Keeping everyone aimed at the few things that actually matter.
• Personally owning commitments and closing loops.
• Moving quickly from discussion to action.
• Coordinating customers, jobs, people, machines, materials, and dependencies.
• Creating repeatable operating rules instead of constant improvisation.

• Turn complexity in the shop into well defined systems
• Own day to day shop operations with a focus on delivering trust and reliability to customers (fast responses to inquiries, transparency, high bar for quality, on-time-delivery)
• Instrument and monitor manufacturing operations with clear KPIs (financial, customer service and growth)
• Work with founders on capex decisions
• Establish hiring and training programs

• Experience building or managing manufacturing or other complex physical operations
• Strong leadership and organizational skills
• High agency and a bias toward action
• Ability to turn messy processes into simple, repeatable systems
• Comfortable measuring and analyzing financial and operational data
• High software fluency and ability to quickly learn new internal and third-party tools