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Director of Production
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- Full time
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- 1H AGO
About the role
Description
Title: Director of Production
Location: Grand Prairie, Texas
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Covenant is a global defense company headquartered in Washington, D.C., building long-range precision strike weapons for the United States and its allies. Its flagship munition, Anthem, combines heavy payload and long range at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy systems, with production volumes designed to meet the demands of prolonged conflict. Designed as an end-to-end weapon system that is simple to store, transport, and field, Anthem is produced in the United States, Germany, and Israel. For more information, visit covenant.com
THE ROLE
This is not a role where you inherit a factory. You build one.
As Director of Production, you will take Anthem from low-rate build to high-volume production at our new Grand Prairie site. You will own the plan, the floor, the team, and the output. You will be given a target and a date, and the freedom to decide how to hit them.
If you have scaled a line before and felt slowed down by bureaucracy, this is the role where that stops. Few people get to stand up a defense production site from an empty building. This is one of those chances.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own the ramp. Turn delivery commitments into a concrete plan covering budget, headcount, equipment, facility, tooling, and timeline. Then execute it.
- Build the factory. Stand up the Grand Prairie production environment from the ground up: layout, workflow, tooling, equipment, and buildout sequence.
- Scale without breaking. Establish production processes, documentation, and controls that meet our quality and regulatory requirements while ramping to meet customer demand.
- Build your team. Recruit and lead the production organization. Bring people you trust, and develop the ones you hire.
- Design how we build. Define your team's production methods, standard work, and the metrics that drive daily performance.
- Know the whole chain. Understand what is required at every step, from raw material and long-lead items through subassembly, integration, and test.
- De-risk supply. Partner with Engineering and Supply Chain to manage cost, lead time, and risk, with real alternatives wherever we are single-sourced.
- Close the loop with design. Work alongside Engineering so designs are producible and floor feedback reaches design fast.
- Operate globally. Work with our Israeli and European production teams as part of one global system.
- Make safety and quality non-negotiable. Build quality into the process, establish a strong safety culture, and meet regulatory and export-control obligations for U.S. defense production.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years in production, manufacturing operations, or industrial engineering, with real ownership of a factory, a line, a program, or a site.
- A proven record of taking a product from low-volume build to repeatable, high-volume production, with results you can quantify (rate, yield, cost, cycle time).
- Fluency in supply chain: sourcing, supplier qualification, lead times, cost, and risk.
- A track record of hiring and leading production teams through rapid growth.
- Must be a U.S. person and eligible to work on U.S. defense production programs, including the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Mass-manufacturing experience in high-rate automotive, aerospace, or defense production.
- Time at a fast-moving startup or a high-growth hardware company.
- Experience standing up a new site or a new production line from scratch.
- Prior defense or aerospace production experience, including work under ITAR and export controls.
- Experience working with production partners outside the U.S.
WHAT MAKES YOU SUCCESSFUL
- Builder's instinct. Give you an outcome and a date, and you scope the budget, headcount, and plan yourself.
- High energy, high ownership. You move fast, adapt when plans change, and solve problems without waiting for permission.
- A talent magnet. You have a network of strong operators who will follow you, and you know how to hire more.
- Bias for action in a regulated world. You hold speed and compliance at the same time, never trading one for the other.
- Global mindset. You are comfortable working across Israel, Europe, and the U.S. in a multicultural company.
- Humble and hungry. You learn how we work, then make it better.
WHY COVENANT
You will build something that matters, fast, with direct impact on the security of the U.S. and its allies. You will have real ownership, a seat at the table, and the chance to define how a new generation of defense production gets done.
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