Head of Manufacturing, Near Space Labs
Stratospheric Robots
Aerial imagery and earth observation
Open for applications
Aerial imagery and earth observation
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
Near Space Labs' mission is to democratize high-quality geospatial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in a hardware production environment
- Hands-on experience with design, manufacturing or test processes in Robotics, Aeronautics, Drones, Auto, IoT, or a similar field containing hardware and embedded software
- Degree in engineering; industrial, mechanical, production, electronics or similar
- Experience managing staff
- Mission-oriented and focused on accomplishing goals autonomously
- Willingness to cover different hats and roles as the company expands
- Not afraid of using a screwdriver yourself when necessary
What the job involves
- We are looking for a self-starter, full-time Head of Production to ramp up and lead our manufacturing team based in our Barcelona, Spain
- This position reports directly to the CTO and works closely with our Flight Operations, Fleet Performance and R&D teams
- Hire, train and lead a team of 15 people to manufacture our fleet of aerial robots
- Deliver flight-worthy units to our operations teams and to ensure successful flight missions
- Set up and manage a small-scale production floor in our office,
- Set up production processes and continuously improve assembly checklists and QA tests
- With a dedicated support specialist, manage the supply chain and shipping logistics
- Predict and anticipate stocking needs based on quantitative analysis of failure rates
- Think strategically about how to scale our production floor as the company expands
- Collaborate closely with the other engineering team to identify areas with the potential to improve robot manufacturing and/or reliability
Our take
Near Space Labs provides customers with high-res imagery of the earth. The twist is, this isn’t satellite imagery, but imagery collected by a zero-emission fleet of wind-powered weather balloons, each one able to capture up to 1,000 square kilometres of imagery on each flight. This makes for an eco-friendly, low-cost alternative to satellite imagery and results in images up to 50 times clearer than those collected by satellite.
Over 500 flights were booked by customers over 2022 alone. Near Space’s cameras are already unlocking crucial intelligence for clients as diverse as local councils, wildlife trackers, and insurance companies.
It’s a remarkable development, unlocking the power of geospatial data for customers who would never have depended on it before, and it therefore cracks open a whole new market in which Near Space is an uncontested player.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2021
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $13m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 25 days paid time off
- Equity
- Annual team offsites
- Visit our New York & Barcelona offices
- Learning & development reimbursement
- Opportunity to attend a balloon launch
Company HQ
Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
Leadership
Rema Matevosyan
(CEO)Previously a software developer with InnoRise, then at the Institute for System Programming of Russian Academy of Sciences. Subsequently held a junior research fellowship at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
Ignasi Lluch
(CTO)Worked on the Galileo Evolutions Team at the European Space Agency, and then as a Space Systems Engineering Researcher at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
Albert Caubert
(Chief Engineer)Previously an engineer at the Centre National d'Études Spatiales, then did his PhD as a Marie Curie Researcher at the University of Strathclyde. Subsequently held an AOCS engineering role at OHB SE.
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