Manager, Tanks Manufacturing
Impulse Space
USD 145k-175k / year + Equity
Posted on Jun 6, 2025
As the Tanks Manufacturing Manager at Impulse, you will hire, manage, and mentor tanks manufacturing engineers and technicians to support hardware builds for Impulse’s tank vehicles. You will support activities ranging from sheet metal fabrication, welding, drilling, mechanical assembly, and hardware integration. You will work directly with leaders and individual contributors in other disciplines. You will have the opportunity to contribute to all aspects of tanks development.
- Department
- Manufacturing
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Redondo Beach
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $145,000 - $175,000 / year
- Reporting To
Responsibilities
- Hire and mentor tanks manufacturing engineers and technicians
- Collaborate with design engineers and quality teams to ensure manufacturability, DFM/DFA compliance, and long-term reliability
- Set daily and weekly production targets, backed by performance metrics
- Provide day-to-day support for the production floor, resolving build issues, updating work instructions, and improving yields
- Develop, document, and optimize manufacturing processes for hardware, including sheet metal fabrication, welding, mechanical assembly, and hardware integration
- Establish and maintain high technical standards through specifications and training
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- 5+ years professional experience manufacturing structural aerospace hardware
- Demonstrated building, managing and developing a manufacturing team
- Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience managing both exempt and non-exempt employees
- Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- 5+ years' of demonstrated experience manufacturing for space environments beyond LEO
- Experience in a startup or agile development environment
- Desire to improve team processes and train other team members
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
About Impulse Space
Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Application Received
Stage 2:
Resume Review
Stage 3:
Intro Phone Interview
Stage 4:
Technical Phone Interview(s)
Don't see the right opportunity? Register your interest and be notified when it becomes available
