Manager, Technical Programs - Strategic + Core
Hadrian Automation
| Company | Hadrian Automation |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Torrance |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 27 May 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future
Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts.
We’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000-square-foot facility creating 350 new jobs. We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.
Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, our fast-growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.
The Role
This role leads a fast-moving team of Technical Program Managers and Manufacturing Engineers responsible for delivering complex, long-cycle customer programs across Strategic and Core accounts. You serve as the translation layer between bespoke customer relationships and standardized factory execution; absorbing customer nuance upstream so production teams receive consistent, reliable inputs regardless of customer. Success is measured by revenue growth, delivery performance, customer-facing quality, and the cleanliness and accuracy of what enters production.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Technical Program Managers and Manufacturing Engineers responsible for delivering complex, long-cycle customer programs across Strategic and Core accounts.
- Serve as an escalation point and decision-maker for your customers; building trust with primes and institutional customers, navigating procurement and approval processes, and leveraging those relationships to protect and grow revenue.
- Drive tight alignment between manufacturing, operations, engineering, and commercial teams to drive customer satisfaction, delivery predictability and retention across established platforms and production lifecycles.
- Own program status visibility end-to-end. Run open order reviews, maintain accurate delivery data, and issue clear, proactive status communications to customers. Be transparent on what customers need to know while exercising judgment on issues that can be resolved without escalation.
- Own commercial hygiene across your customer base. Drive customers to update purchase orders, confirm need dates, and release engineering changes in real time. When customers are slow to act, apply appropriate pressure through the right relationship channels to get documents updated at the source. Internal workarounds are not a substitute for accurate customer records.
- Own the accuracy of order entry, WO configuration, and revision processing. Zero-defect inputs to the factory are a baseline expectation. Every PO, revision, and engineering change must be processed completely and correctly before it touches the floor. Errors should be treated as defects: tracked, root-caused, and eliminated.
- Own core quality and delivery workflows for your accounts: PPAP compliance, corrective action management, customer return processes, and work order configuration standards.
- Partner with peer TPM leadership to define and maintain factory-facing process standards across the org to ensure consistent production inputs regardless of customer type.
- Build scalable processes and tooling to improve throughput, forecasting accuracy, and operational visibility; optimized for accounts with recurring execution patterns.
- Identify systemic gaps and collaborate with product and engineering teams to prioritize capability development that improves team efficiency on mature programs.
- Lead operational reviews, business reviews, and program health assessments with internal stakeholders and external cus
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