Global Head of Manufacturing

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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UFORCE

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501 - 1000 employees

🎖️ Defense

🔧 Hardware

🚀 Aerospace

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $50M Seed Round on 2026-03

Defense • Hardware • Aerospace

UFORCE is a developer and supplier of combat‑proven unmanned systems and integrated command-and-control/autonomy solutions for air, land, and sea operations. Their platforms are presented as battle-tested in Ukraine with thousands of combat missions and validated operational performance; the company emphasizes rapid iteration, sovereign production, and lower-cost deterrence compared with traditional military platforms. Offerings referenced include unmanned air (UAV), land, and sea platforms, C2/autonomy, intercept capabilities, and remote weapon station (RWS) integrations.

📋 Description

• Own manufacturing delivery across contracted programs • Establish achievable production and recovery plans, identify material and capacity constraints, and address risks before customer commitments are missed • Build a resource-constrained global production plan across Portugal, Poole and planned US sites • Balance near-term execution with longer-term capacity, staffing, equipment, supplier and test needs • Work with Global Demand & Delivery through the S&OP process to align site capacity and production commitments with the consolidated demand forecast • Shape the manufacturing footprint and investment roadmap, including expansion, production transfers, make-versus-buy decisions and automation • Partner with Engineering, Product and Quality to prepare new products and major changes for production and improve manufacturability • Establish consistent production controls for bills of materials, work instructions, configuration, inspection, testing and traceability • Resolve critical defects and safety or readiness gaps with Quality and site leaders • Improve yield, cycle time, labor productivity and unit cost using production data and factory-floor engagement • Address bottlenecks, shortages, rework and downtime • Partner with Supply Chain on material availability, supplier recovery and alternate sources • Build and develop site and functional leaders, clarify decision rights, strengthen technician skills and establish a consistent operating rhythm • Report initially to the Global CEO, with reporting expected to transition to the EU CEO or Global COO

🎯 Requirements

• Track record of taking complex hardware from early builds into sustained production, with direct ownership of delivery, output and quality through a ramp • Experience leading manufacturing across multiple sites or countries through site managers, including building teams, developing leaders and establishing common standards while retaining local expertise • Strong manufacturing engineering and industrialization judgment, including design for manufacture, assembly methods, tooling, test, configuration control and engineering change • Demonstrated results improving production flow, first-pass yield, cycle time or cost through practical problem solving, continuous improvement and direct engagement on the factory floor • Experience building quality and safety into production, including traceability, acceptance testing, root-cause actions and relevant aerospace, defense or comparable quality systems • Sound commercial and financial judgment, with experience evaluating capacity, inventory, capital investment, automation, outsourcing and supplier capability against delivery and unit economics • Ability to align Engineering, Product, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance and commercial teams around achievable commitments, communicate risks early and resolve difficult trade-offs • A hands-on, accountable leadership style and the ability to build useful structure in a fast-changing organization without slowing down execution • Experience manufacturing uncrewed systems, robotics, maritime or aerospace products, or other complex defense hardware • Experience integrating acquired manufacturing operations or transferring production between sites while maintaining delivery • Experience scaling manufacturing across Europe and the United States • Experience translating field or customer feedback into production improvements in a fast-moving hardware environment • Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying • Must indicate whether employment sponsorship from UFORCE is required

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