finalREV is a startup building the next generation of automated metal part manufacturing. We operate a quick turn CNC machine shop in Berkeley California and build our own software / automation to make our shop work faster, smarter, and more autonomously.
We’re looking for a Head of Operations to join our team. This is a uniquely high-ownership role. You’ll work directly with the founders and have significant influence over how the company operates, how we deploy capital, and how we scale.
About you
- Keeping everyone aimed at the few things that actually matter.
- Personally owning commitments and closing loops.
- Moving quickly from discussion to action.
- Coordinating customers, jobs, people, machines, materials, and dependencies.
- Creating repeatable operating rules instead of constant improvisation.
Role and Responsibilities
- Turn complexity in the shop into well defined systems
- Own day to day shop operations with a focus on delivering trust and reliability to customers (fast responses to inquiries, transparency, high bar for quality, on-time-delivery)
- Instrument and monitor manufacturing operations with clear KPIs (financial, customer service and growth)
- Work with founders on capex decisions
- Establish hiring and training programs
Required Skills
- Experience building or managing manufacturing or other complex physical operations
- Strong leadership and organizational skills
- High agency and a bias toward action
- Ability to turn messy processes into simple, repeatable systems
- Comfortable measuring and analyzing financial and operational data
- High software fluency and ability to quickly learn new internal and third-party tools
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This position is listed as full time and onsite.