Automation & Industrialization Director

<h3><strong>About Us</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following the close of a $200M Series B, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, we are expanding our teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our work is guided by clear values: building technologies with real-world impact, pursuing excellence in everything we do, setting ambitious goals, and taking on the hardest technical challenges. We operate in a demanding environment where rigor, ownership, and execution are expected.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Harmattan AI is moving from rapid product development and early serial production into high-volume industrial scale-up. Products, production volumes and manufacturing sites are evolving simultaneously.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The next phase requires a Senior Automation &amp; Industrialisation Director who can translate engineering designs and volume requirements into robust, scalable and where justified increasingly automated production systems, while providing strong technical leadership to a diversely skilled team.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The objective is to strengthen both Harmattan AI's industrialisation capability and the technical maturity of the team, enabling the organisation to scale from today's manual and semi-automated processes toward significantly higher volumes and international manufacturing.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">The role will own the Automation &amp; Industrialisation roadmap, including:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Industrialisation of new products from prototype through stable serial production.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">DFM/DFA and Design for Automation with Engineering.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Production process and line architecture.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Workstations, tooling, fixtures, test equipment and semi-automated production systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Automation concepts, specifications, supplier selection, commissioning and ramp-up.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">PFMEA, process validation and production-readiness activities.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Cycle-time, capacity, line balancing, yield and labour-content optimisation.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identification of the correct automation level based on volume, maturity, quality, flexibility and ROI.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Standardisation and replication of production systems across Harmattan AI manufacturing sites.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Development of the manufacturing technology roadmap toward significantly higher production volumes.</p></li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><h2><strong>Candidate Requirements</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">15-20+ years of relevant industrial experience (ideally in aerospace, defence, advanc