Senior Manager, Composite Production

At REGENT, we're on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water's surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before.

Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we're now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

We're looking for a Senior Manager, Composite Production to own the full composite production organization: the engineering, maintenance, and production teams that together turn composite process into finished parts 'll lead through a management layer of shift leads and supervisors - standing up standard work and quality control that survive shift-to-shift, building a maintenance program that keeps cure and layup equipment running, and growing and training the workforce as we scale - and help take composite production from prototype builds to predictable, production-ready output, in tight partnership with Advanced Engineering.

If you're energized by building a production organization from the ground up, developing people at scale, and hands‑on manufacturing leadership, you'll be in the right place - and we'd be thrilled to have you on the team!

• Own Composite Production Performance End to End:
  Hold single-point accountability across engineering, maintenance, and production for quality, yield, equipment uptime, and throughput - so the three functions operate as one, unified system.
• Lead Through a Management Layer:
  Build and develop the shift leads and supervisors who run the floor day-to-day, and grow that leadership structure so the organization scales without diluting quality.
• Systematize Engineered Fixes into Standard Work:
  Turn one-off process solutions into trained, auditable standards that every technician on every shift can run - and close the loop back to engineering when a standard isn't holding.
• Own Equipment Reliability:
  Run a preventive maintenance program and uptime tracking for cure, layup, and trim equipment (autoclaves, ovens, presses, trim and cure systems), and prioritize maintenance and engineering resources against production schedule risk.
• Build the Workforce and Its Training Pipeline:
  Stand up structured training paths and certification levels - for example a station-based dojo model and skills matrices - that take a hire from no experience to certified, independent operator.
• Run Quality Control at Scale:
  Put control plans, SPC checks, and non-conformance and corrective-action processes into daily practice across shifts, so quality and process control scale with production rate.
• Partner with Advanced Engineering:
  Work continuously with the Advanced Engineering team to validate process robustness before it reaches the floor, treating each build as a shared outcome rather than a handoff at the end of engineering's work.

• Composite Manufacturing & Organizational Leadership:
  Extensive experience in composite manufacturing, including leading a multi‑disciplinary organization spanning manufacturing engineering, maintenance, and/or production at meaningful scale.
• Leadership Through Leads and Supervisors:
  You've run production through a layer of leadership rather than by directly managing every…