Manufacturing and Process Lead

About this position

About Canada Rocket Company

About Canada Rocket Company

Canada Rocket Company is developing Canada's first medium-lift launch vehicle.

We are a team of veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Ariane Group, Pangea Propulsion, Tesla, MDA, and more, bringing over a century of combined launch and space systems experience back to Canada.

Our mission is to provide reliable, independent access to space for Canada and its allies in a rapidly expanding global market.

Our approach is defined by pragmatic engineering:

• We utilize a 725 kN engine that scales medium-lift via engine clustering.
• We lean on simple, proven technologies to reach orbit faster, avoiding the pitfalls of complex or novel designs.
• We test early and often, catching problems on the bench instead of at the pad.

Backed by over $20M in funding secured within our first four months, including the largest all-Canadian seed round in the sector and an $8.3M Department of National Defence grant, we are moving with the speed and institutional backing required to meet Canada’s orbital launch needs.

About the role

Canada Rocket Company is building a sovereign launch capability for Canada. We're looking for a Manufacturing and Process Lead to champion the fit out, deployment, qualification, control, and industrialization fabrication processes that turn our vehicle designs into reliable, flight-ready hardware.

Alongside growing the manufacturing and process teams, you will work across structures, propulsion, fluids, integration teams, and executive teams to define and deploy CRC’s manufacturing approach. You will drive the development of the machine that builds the machine, further solidifying supply base partnerships and deploying in-house capability that allows us to build our vehicles  will additionally guide the selection and qualification of materials, fabrication methods, and process controls, leading the resolution of real-world manufacturing challenge s.

What you'll do

• Define and own CRC's overall manufacturing and process strategy spanning material selection philosophy, fabrication method selection, in-house vs. outsourced capability, and industrialization roadmap
• Decide where CRC builds in-house capability versus deploys and manages supply-base partnerships, and drive the capital and hiring plans needed to support that
• Set the standards and gates for material and process qualification, and hold the team and suppliers accountable to them
• Own the make-vs-buy and supplier strategy for critical raw materials, forgings, and fabricated components; guide supplier selection, qualification, and long-term relationship management in partnership with supply chain and operations
• Set direction for manufacturing documentation systems (specs, travelers, work instructions, build sequences) and ensure the team builds and maintains them to a consistent, auditable standard
• Establish CRC's approach to non-conformances, rework, process escapes, and failure analysis; building the investigation process and escalation structure, and personally leading resolution of the highest-severity issues
• Represent manufacturing and materials in technical reviews, trade studies, program planning, and executive-level discussions on hardware risk, schedule, and production scaling
• Work with structural and mechanical engineers to define and execute the material and manufacturing engineering approach for launch-vehicle hardware, spanning material selection, process development, fabrication planning, producibility, industrialization, and build support
• Define, develop, optimize, and control fabrication processes for hardware
• Drive design-for-manufacture and design-for-assembly reviews with engineering teams
• Partner closely with design, structures, propulsion, fluids,…