Orbitworks is building satellites at a pace and scale that demand world-class manufacturing leadership. As our Director of Manufacturing, you will be the force that turns cutting-edge engineering into reliable, repeatable, and scalable production. This role sits at the heart of Orbitworks’ mission: taking complex, high-performance satellite designs and converting them into hardware that can be assembled, tested, and delivered with speed and precision.
You will own the full design-to-manufacturing pipeline—driving DFX into early engineering conversations, ensuring MGSE and EGSE systems are robust and ready, and building the processes and teams that keep production flowing without surprises. This is a role for a practical, hands-on leader who thrives in ambiguity, solves real problems on real hardware, and knows how to ship.
If you have led manufacturing and test teams through high-pressure builds, closed the gap between engineering intent and production reality, and delivered complex hardware on schedule, this is where your experience becomes a strategic advantage. Join us and help shape a manufacturing organization capable of producing high-autonomy satellite systems at scale.
Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbital's heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.