Robotics Operations Manager
MOLG
Location: Molg HQ in Dulles, VA (Northern Virginia)
Salary: $80-$100K, plus equity, and full healthcare benefits
OUR MISSION
To tackle the growing e-waste problem, Molg enables circular manufacturing with robotics and design. Its robotic microfactories can autonomously disassemble complex electronic products, and the team partners with leading manufacturers to design electronics with reuse in mind — ensuring one product’s end is another’s new beginning.
Molg combines advanced robotics and intelligent software to transform how electronics are manufactured and recovered. Working with partners like HP, leading hyperscalers, and industrial companies such as ABB and Stanley Black & Decker, Molg’s solutions recover valuable materials from existing devices while helping create the next generation of products optimized for circularity. This dual focus on recovery and design innovation drives Molg’s mission to keep materials in use and reduce waste.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:
As the Robotics Operations Manager, you will play an integral role in ensuring the successful operations of Molg’s Microfactory systems. You will oversee a team of technicians responsible for the maintenance, upkeep, repair, and operations of deployed Microfactory systems, with a focus on process development and management, resource management, and customer success. Your responsibilities will include:
Microfactory Operations: Support ongoing microfactory operations post installation, including validating on-site operations and backfilling robot operations roles as needed.
System Development: Collaborate with technical and operational teams to develop and implement improved standard operating procedures and troubleshooting guidelines.
Operations Troubleshooting: Conduct hands-on, mechanically complex troubleshooting, problem solving, and system resets onsite with microfactories. Provide guidance and assistance to deployed technicians.
Planning: Create and implement a preventative maintenance schedule based on process requirements and coordinate corrective maintenance in response to issues and failures.
Resource Coordination: Manage deployment of robotics technicians for short, medium and long-term assignments for Microfactory maintenance and operations. Work with other technical and operational managers to support pre-deployment builds, testing, and installation/handover.
Customer Success: Develop relationships with customers to ensure objectives are met.
WHO YOU ARE:
An experienced (3+ years), mechanically-oriented technician or engineer interested in mechatronics and manufacturing automation, as well as building and implementing support systems and processes to ensure smooth robotic systems operations.
Have an appreciation for process engineering and quality assurance, demonstrated by experience in a manufacturing or similar environment.
Skilled in allocating resources to address complex needs and thinking creatively to develop and implement efficient processes and solutions.
Interested in being a mentor, manager, and capacity builder for a growing team of robotics technicians and operators.
Excited to help shape an evolving business function and department and flexible in testing and implementing new models and solutions.
Flexible to take on an evolving role spanning the operations, mechanical engineering, and process engineering teams.
Passionate about robotics, manufacturing and sustainability, with a desire to contribute to solving the global e-waste challenge.
Fluency in English and ability to communicate effectively and efficiently both verbally and in writing.
Availability to travel up to 50% of the time.
Unsponsored right to work in the United States
WHO WE ARE:
We spend our days building robotic systems, developing complex assembly intelligence software, and designing the next generation of circular products for our customers. Given the importance of working hands-on with physical systems, we are a 100% in-person team collaboratively working in our industrial space in Dulles, VA, down the road from the largest data center market in the world. Our facility includes a variety of robots, CNC milling machines, 3D printers, and all the tools needed to build and test our products. It is important to us that anyone on our team that is interested in learning how to use our various pieces of equipment and machinery is taught and can gain the skills and appreciation for making physical things.
THINGS TO KNOW:
We’re a small collaborative team with big ambitions, and there’s a good amount of context-switching. We expect people to be autonomous and drive their own work to completion.
We are a profitable business that is primarily funded from customer revenue, which means we are scrappy and looking to build a great sustainable company for years to come.
As a growing company and startup, priorities may shift as customer or business requirements change. We strive to empower individuals with context and decision-making power to meet this need.
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