Manager, Composites Manufacturing (Aerospace)

Location: Redondo Beach, United States; onsite. Applicants must be U.S. Persons or eligible to obtain an export license under applicable U.S. export regulations.

Salary: $175,000–$195,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global Space develops in-space transportation vehicles and propulsion systems for orbital transport, payload deployment, and precision reentry.

What you will do

• Hire, manage, and mentor composites manufacturing engineers and technicians across two shifts.
• Collaborate with design engineering and quality teams on manufacturability, design for manufacturing compliance, and long-term reliability.
• Set daily and weekly production targets using performance metrics and support production-floor issue resolution.
• Develop, document, optimize, and improve processes for lamination, bonding, curing, mechanical assembly, and hardware integration.
• Develop production processes for high-temperature composites and weight-saving COPV technologies.
• Establish technical standards, training, equipment maintenance plans, and actions to improve robustness, reliability, yields, and downtime.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of professional experience manufacturing structural aerospace hardware.
• Professional experience managing and growing a team.
• Desire to improve team processes and train other team members.
• Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale, and resolve concerns.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of demonstrated experience with composites manufacturing for in-space vehicles.
• At least 2 years of full-lifecycle experience covering design, low-rate production, and scaled production of COPVs and COPV liners.
• Experience managing both exempt and non-exempt employees in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in a startup or agile development environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of stock options.
• Work in an onsite manufacturing environment supporting in-space transportation hardware.

Hiring process

• Application received and resume review.
• Introductory phone interview followed by technical phone interview(s).
• Onsite interview and offer.