Lead Project Manager, Factory Development

Divergent is a technology company that has architected, invented, built, and commercialized an end-to-end factory system called the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) that comprehensively uses machine learning to optimally engineer, additively manufacture, and flexibly assemble complex integrated vehicle structures and subsystems. Products created using DAPS are superior in performance, lower in cost, rapidly customizable to meet mission and customer-specific requirements, faster to market, and scalable on demand to high volume production.

Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs, and Divergent is now expanding to support mission critical needs in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Join us to be a part of this transformative journey, where your impact will shape the future of technology and production.

Purpose

Architect and lead execution of next-generation manufacturing facility buildouts that bring new production capability online s role serves as the operational "offensive coordinator" for factory deployment initiatives, owning integrated execution across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and manufacturing readiness activities. Responsible for driving day-to-day execution, integrated planning, budget, schedule alignment, risk identification, stakeholder accountability, and issue resolution required to successfully ramp new manufacturing capability and operational readiness.
The Role

Integrated Execution Planning & Framework Development:

• Own integrated execution planning and drive alignment across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and manufacturing readiness activities required to bring new manufacturing capability online.
• Maintain visibility into critical path activities, deployment milestones, execution constraints, production readiness objectives, and operational dependencies across factory deployment initiatives.
• Identify execution gaps, deployment risks, and schedule impacts early while driving issue resolution, escalation management, recovery planning, and corrective actions required to maintain deployment momentum and operational readiness targets.

Execution Leadership & Deployment Coordination:

• Lead factory deployment execution activities across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and manufacturing readiness work streams.
• Drive stakeholder accountability, execution follow-through, deployment alignment, and issue resolution across internal teams, contractors, OEM vendors, and external partners.
• Ensure deployment priorities, execution decisions, scope changes, and critical risks are rapidly communicated, escalated, and resolved to maintain factory deployment objectives, production milestones, and operational readiness goals.

Deployment Risk Management & Issue Resolution:

• Proactively identify, communicate, escalate, and drive mitigation of execution risks associated with factory development, infrastructure deployment, construction execution, manufacturing readiness, and operational integration activities.
• Lead cross-functional issue resolution, recovery planning, and mitigation efforts required to resolve deployment blockers, reduce execution risk, and maintain alignment across fast-paced factory deployment initiatives.

Cross-Functional Execution Leadership:

• Lead cross-functional execution alignment across engineering, operations, facilities, procurement, finance, contractors, OEM vendors, and external partners to maintain deployment momentum, production readiness, and operational execution across factory deployment initiatives.
• Influence stakeholders, drive accountability, resolve competing priorities, and accelerate issue resolution while maintaining alignment on deployment objectives, production milestones, manufacturing readiness goals, and operational timelines.
• Operates with influence without authority across adjacent functions, shaping decisions and driving outcomes beyond the immediate factory deployment team.

Continuous Improvement for Factory Deployment:

• Define and drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on improving deployment execution velocity, manufacturing readiness, operational scalability, and cross-functional execution effectiveness across factory deployment initiatives.
• Capture lessons learned and develop scalable deployment practices, execution frameworks, and operational standards that improve deployment consistency, production ramp readiness, and long-term factory scaling capability across future manufacturing deployments.

Basic Qualifications

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Operations, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience leading manufacturing operations, factory deployment, industrial project execution, production scale-up, operational readiness, facility development, capital projects, or…