Production Manager

About Machina Labs:

Engineering moves at software speed. Manufacturing doesn't. Yet.

Machina Labs is changing that. We build intelligent, software‑defined factories that produce complex metal structures directly from digital design. By integrating advanced metal forming, robotics, and automated production inside a flexible factory architecture, we enable customers to move from prototype to production in weeks, not years.

Backed by Lockheed Martin, Toyota, and NVIDIA, we’re building the manufacturing infrastructure that defense, aerospace, and advanced mobility programs will run on.

If you want to work on hard problems that matter and see them fly, drive, and defend, this is the place.

Machina Labs is looking for a motivated, hands‑on, and results‑driven Production Manager to lead daily manufacturing operations for our robotic sheet metal forming and downstream production activities. This role is responsible for managing production personnel, driving execution against schedule and quality commitments, improving shop floor performance, and helping scale Machina Labs’ production capability as we transition advanced manufacturing processes from development into repeatable production.

The Production Manager will oversee day‑to‑day production activities across robotic forming, trimming, deburring, grinding, finishing, inspection support, assembly, and other manufacturing operations required to deliver high‑quality metal structures to customers. This role will work closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Software, Quality, Supply Chain, Program Management, and Business Development to ensure customer requirements are translated into safe, executable, and repeatable production plans.

Success in this role requires someone who can lead from the floor, establish operating discipline, build and develop teams, solve problems under pressure, and create structure in a fast‑moving technical environment. The ideal candidate has experience managing production teams in aerospace, defense, automotive, precision sheet metal, machining, fabrication, or other complex manufacturing environments.

The Production Manager must be comfortable walking the floor, identifying constraints, removing roadblocks, holding teams accountable, and helping build the systems, culture, and operating cadence needed to support growth.

• Lead and manage daily production activities across robotic forming, sheet metal fabrication, finishing, trimming, deburring, grinding, assembly, and related manufacturing operations.
• Own daily production execution, including schedule adherence, labor planning, machine uptime, quality performance, throughput, and shop floor priorities.
• Manage Production Supervisors, Leads, Technicians, and other production personnel as the organization scales.
• Run daily production stand‑ups to review safety, quality, delivery, staffing, equipment status, constraints, and customer priorities.
• Translate program requirements, engineering releases, customer needs, and production schedules into executable shop‑floor plans.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to improve routers, travelers, setup sheets, work instructions, process documentation, and standard operating procedures.
• Ensure production teams maintain accurate documentation of process settings, machine status, nonconformances, rework, scrap, and lessons learned.
• Drive production readiness for new parts, new customer programs, and transition from prototype builds to repeatable production.
• Identify production bottlenecks and lead corrective actions to improve flow, reduce waste, and increase throughput.
• Work with Quality to ensure parts meet drawing requirements, inspection standards, customer specifications, and internal acceptance criteria.
• Support root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement efforts related to production defects, missed schedules, rework, and process escapes.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain and Planning to ensure materials, tooling, consumables, fixtures, and outside processing are available to support production.
• Provide feedback to Engineering, Estimating, and Program…