About the Company We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore. The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis. Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries. About the Job Our core technology is the node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. Panthalassa is moving from pilot production into volume manufacturing, and we are hiring a Director of Industrialization to stand up the production lines that get us there. You will own the manufacturing strategy, equipment definition, commissioning schedule, and production ramp for our new factories — the work that turns a proven pilot process and a rate target into a qualified, running line. This is the person who decides what we build with, how the line is configured, how long installation and commissioning will take, and how quickly the factory can climb to rate. Working with Pilot Manufacturing, you will translate product designs and proven pilot processes into a build strategy, then select and procure major capital equipment, sequence installation and qualification against a hard schedule, and define the ramp curve the rest of the business plans against. This role starts as an individual contributor and grows into a leadership role. For the first phase you will be doing the work yourself: building the models, writing the equipment specs, running the vendor evaluations, and standing in the building during commissioning. As the factories come online you will define, hire, and lead the industrialization and manufacturing engineering team that supports them. We a..
