Senior Manager, Technical Operations

CelLink is scaling advanced manufacturing in Georgetown, and we're looking for a Senior Manager, Technical Operations to help lead that growth. This is a high-impact leadership role overseeing the teams and systems that keep our factory running safely, reliably, and efficiently, including Production, Maintenance, Production Planning, and Configuration Management.

You’ll lead leaders, connect the dots across functions, and make sure people, equipment, schedules, materials, and product configurations are aligned to deliver. We need someone who is comfortable on the manufacturing floor, knows the numbers, understands the technology behind the operation, and can balance today's production demands with building a more scalable, reliable factory for tomorrow.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Coach and develop leaders across Production, Maintenance, Planning, Configuration Management, and related functions.
• Drive safety, quality, delivery, cost, staffing, schedule, equipment availability, and workforce performance.
• Establish strong operating rhythms across Production, Maintenance, Planning, and Configuration Management, with clear priorities, escalation paths, and accountability.
• Lead production readiness, workforce planning, capacity planning, equipment readiness, ramp-ups, commissioning, and stabilization of new and sustaining programs.
• Oversee preventive/predictive maintenance, breakdown response, recurring-failure elimination, spare-parts strategy, and CMMS discipline.
• Ensure schedules, BOMs, routings, revisions, material requirements, and change controls are accurate and aligned with manufacturing execution.
• Use data, KPIs, Lean principles, structured problem solving, and continuous improvement to increase throughput, yield, efficiency, and uptime while reducing downtime, scrap, and rework.
• Work closely with Engineering, NPI, Quality, Automation & Controls, Supply Chain, EHS, HR, and other teams to solve constraints and keep programs moving.
•  Build capability in problem-solving, reliability, performance management, talent development, and continuous improvement.
• Reinforce a culture of safety, accountability, operational discipline, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Experience/Education

• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing, production, maintenance, planning, equipment, or technical operations experience.
• 5+ years leading supervisors, managers, or other people leaders in a high-volume, automated, or technically complex environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Industrial Technology, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on advanced manufacturing experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Proven experience owning manufacturing performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, staffing, downtime, and equipment reliability.
• Strong understanding of automated manufacturing equipment, maintenance, troubleshooting, production controls, planning, configuration/change control, and manufacturing processes.
• Comfortable using operational data and KPIs to identify problems, prioritize resources, and drive measurable improvement.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills and the ability to communicate effectively from the production floor to senior leadership.

Preferred Experience

• Automotive, electronics, battery, semiconductor, high-speed assembly, or other advanced manufacturing experience.
• Experience in 24/7 operations, NPI, equipment commissioning, manufacturing ramp, capacity expansion, or production stabilization.
• Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, or reliability experience.
• Experience with MES, ERP, CMMS, production planning, configuration management, or manufacturing dashboards.
• Experience working within ISO 9001, IATF 16949, or similar quality systems.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Working Conditions/Hours

Salaried Exempt

Physical Demands - Office and Manufacturing Environment

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms and pull/push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment - 

Includes both a typical office environment, with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues, and a shop environment, with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to chemicals used to run/maintain machines

PPE-

May be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to safety glasses, safety shoes, bump caps, gloves, hair nets, masks, & clean-room frocks while adhering to the prescribed safety procedures

We believe diversity and inclusion among our teammates are essential to our success. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees while building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an equal opportunity employer. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. CelLink participates in the E-Verify program in specific locations as required by law.

CelLink was founded in 2012 and entered volume production in 2018. CelLink provides electrical systems to the world's leading automotive OEMs & EV manufacturers, data center developers, and stationary power companies. The company has raised approximately $315M in funding through private investment and multiple grants from the US Department of Energy. CelLink’s investors include 3M, Atreides, BMW, BorgWarner, Bosch, D1 Capital, Fidelity, Fontinalis Partners, Ford, Franklin Templeton, Lear, Park West, SK Telecom, Standard Investments, T. Rowe Price, Tinicum, and Whale Rock.