Factory Integration Lead

Title: Factory Integration Lead

Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Drive coordination between manufacturing engineering, facility design, construction execution, and factory launch. This role exists to ensure the factory is not just built — but built correctly for the manufacturing system it must support. It is a highly cross‑functional execution role where the successful candidate will operate at the intersection of manufacturing process development, facility design, equipment layout, construction execution, and commissioning.

• Serve as the primary coordination point between manufacturing engineering, architect/engineering design teams, construction management, and commissioning teams.
• Ensure facility design decisions support the actual manufacturing processes, equipment layouts, and production flow.
• Translate manufacturing requirements into facility design inputs including utilities, equipment space, material flow, and infrastructure.

• Work with manufacturing engineering to develop and refine factory layouts, equipment placement, and process flow.
• Ensure layouts support both initial first‑of‑a‑kind production and future scaled manufacturing.
• Identify layout, infrastructure, or facility constraints early and drive design adjustments.

• Facilitate coordination between internal engineering teams and external design partners.
• Ensure architectural and engineering designs remain aligned with manufacturing requirements and operational needs.
• Identify conflicts between facility design and manufacturing equipment early.

• Participate in design reviews, constructability discussions, and field coordination meetings.
• Support resolution of design‑to‑field conflicts affecting manufacturing systems.

• Coordinate installation sequencing between construction completion, equipment installation, and commissioning activities.
• Support development of equipment installation plans and factory startup sequencing.
• Ensure infrastructure readiness for manufacturing systems.

• Help translate the first factory design into a scalable template for future facilities.
• Document lessons learned and improvements to support replication of future factories.

We are looking for someone who combines manufacturing understanding with facility development awareness.

• Advanced manufacturing startups
• Semiconductor or battery factories
• Aerospace manufacturing
• Nuclear or energy facilities
• Large capital manufacturing projects

• 5–7+ years experience in manufacturing, factory development, or capital projects
• Experience coordinating across manufacturing engineering, facilities design, and construction teams
• Experience with factory layout, production flow, or manufacturing equipment integration
• Experience in large capital projects or industrial facility construction
• Comfortable working in fast‑moving startup environments

• Systems thinker — sees how process, facility, and construction interact
• Comfortable operating across engineering, operations, and field execution
  
  Strong communicator who can translate between design teams, engineers, and builders
• Highly organized but comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration
• Bias toward execution and problem solving

• Substantial equity plan for all full‑time employees
• Medical coverage: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% for dependents, offers up to Platinum plans
• Sponsored One Medical memberships for employees and their dependents
• Vision coverage: 100% top tier plan for employees + 50% for dependents
• Dental coverage: 100% top tier plan for employees, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents
• Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA benefits offered as employee contributed benefits
• 8 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents; additional paid pregnancy leave for California employees
• Daily catered lunch; free snacks and drinks
• Flexible PTO policy with remote workday allocation
• Company and team bonding events, happy hours, and in‑person camaraderie

Compensation Range: $154.5K - $256.2K

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.