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Based at our KEZAD facility in Abu Dhabi and reporting to the SVP of Operations, you'll connect product design, assembly and test methods, infrastructure, equipment, workforce capability, and material availability into a working industrial solution for a medium-mix, medium-to-low-volume production environment.\nYou'll own the industrialization workstream end-to-end - from product assessment and partner transfer through new product introduction (NPI), deployment, production readiness, ramp-up, and handover - while personally developing capacity models and industrial solutions and working hands-on on the production floor. This is a strategic, hands-on individual-contributor role: you'll need strong technical judgment, the ability to influence without formal authority, and the persistence to see implementation through. As the business grows, scope can expand into broader portfolio ownership, technical leadership, and building out an industrialization team.\nWhat You'll do:\nOwn the industrialization strategy and integrated delivery plan - translating product, demand, and business objectives into rate targets, work packages, owners, milestones, resources, budget needs, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.\nWork with Engineering/D2M and AIT to define build sequence, work breakdown, routings, assembly and test flows, and manufacturing data needs, driving design for manufacture, assembly, test, access, and repeatability.\nBuild version-controlled capacity models from execution data, time studies, engineering estimates, and partner data, and balance cells and workflows to the required production rate.\nDevelop layouts, workstations, material flow, buffers, WIP policies, cleanroom zoning, and kitting interfaces, comparing fixed-station, cellular, parallel, and flow approaches against product and rate constraints.\nDefine and deliver industrial asset work packages for ground support equipment, test assets, utilities, and facility changes, driving procurement, installation, commissioning, and handover.\nLead the industrialization interface with external partners - agreeing technical deliverables, owners, dates, and acceptance criteria for product data, methods, tooling, training, and test interfaces.\nLead industrial readiness assessments, closing process, equipment, documentation, training, supply, and infrastructure gaps, and securing production-release decisions through Orbitworks' readiness and change reviews.\nLead pilots and support ramp-up on the production floor, validating assumptions, resolving constraints, and demonstrating agreed rate, mix, quality, and resource performance.\nDefine rate, lead-time, WIP, capacity, labor, quality, and constraint metrics, and drive improvements that produce sustained, system-level results.\nDevelop investment and resource options, lead delivery reviews, coach contributors, and establish reusable models, standards, and decision records.\nWhat you'll Need:\n7-12 years in industrial, manufacturing, or production engineering, with an engineering degree or equivalent demonstrated capability.\nDirect, hands-on experience in satellite assembly, integration, test, or comparable space hardware production, with industrialization responsibility at the system or subsystem level. General aerospace experience alone doesn't meet this requirement.\nA track record of owning an integrated industrialization workstream through deployment, ramp-up, and acceptance, with plans, milestones, resource or investment decisions, recovery actions, and measured outcomes to show for it.\nStrong capacity modeling and line balancing skills - building auditable models of mixed-product demand, process precedence, labor skills, equipment occupancy, calendars, variability, rework, and bottlenecks.\nProduction engineering depth: routings, work instructions, tooling, process control, work measurement, layout, material flow, WIP, and producibility, with the ability to translate drawings and test requirements into industrial requirements.\nExperience defining and delivering production or test capability through requirements, procurement, commissioning, acceptance, and operational handover.\nSkill in extracting usable technical inputs from external partners, tracking assumptions and gaps, and following through until the local production solution works.\nProven ability to manage cross-functional work packages, dependencies, risks, and commitments as an individual contributor, without relying on formal line authority. Formal people-management experience is not required.\nStrong spreadsheet and data analysis skills, with models that have traceable sources, units, assumptions, and actual-versus-plan checks.\nUnderstanding of traceability, controlled baselines, manufacturing/test readiness, and change impact in high-reliability hardware.\nClear technical English, concise written communication, effective shop-floor engagement, willingness to work onsite in Abu Dhabi, and the ability to travel to partners as needed.\nNice to Have\nExperience ramping a LEO constellation from first units into repeat production.\nHaving commissioned a cleanroom, production area, or major test capability, including utilities, safety, and contamination control.\nExperience phasing new products or upgrades into a shared industrial asset while protecting existing delivery commitments.\nDiscrete-event simulation and optimization experience for problems beyond spreadsheet capability.\nPractical experience with MES, ERP, PLM, 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