Director of Manufacturing / Engineering
Ecopool · Texas
We're building swimming pools the way cars are built.
In a factory. From structural steel. Built to automotive tolerances. Welded on jigs.
The pool industry hasn't been redesigned in 60 years. We are redesigning it. We're ramping production now, and we need someone who lives on the floor and changes the system that's running on it.
The job
You own the line. Layout, tooling, cycle time, takt time, throughput, DFM, automation strategy. Every minute. Every motion. Every part.
If a part is hard to install, you delete it. If a station is slow, you fix it this week. If the layout is wrong, you redraw it. This is not a job for someone who wants to manage a stable plant. You'll build it.
What you'll own
- Cycle time from raw steel to finished pool
- Takt time at whatever rate the market demands
- Factory layout — every station, every fixture, every move
- Design for Manufacturability, driven upstream into the product
- Tooling and automation — robotic cells, vision systems, manual stations, whatever wins
- The team that runs all of it
How we work
Five steps. In this order. No skipping.
- Question every requirement. Make every spec less dumb. Trace it back to a person, not a department.
- Delete the part or process. If you aren't adding 10% back, you didn't delete enough.
- Simplify and optimize. Only after step 2.
- Accelerate cycle time.
- Automate. Last, not first.
You probably are
- 10+ years in manufacturing or production engineering
- Have personally led a ramp from low-volume to high-volume — and have the numbers to prove it
- Fluent in SolidWorks (or NX, Inventor, CATIA) — and more importantly in DFM and GD&T
- Comfortable around welded steel, fixturing, and weldment production
- Have implemented robotic cells and machine vision in real production
- Comfortable with long hours on the factory floor
You probably aren't
- Looking for a stable, mature plant to manage
- Looking for the next rung on a corporate ladder
- Waiting for next quarter's roadmap to fix the obvious problem in front of you
Compensation
Base + bonuses + equity potential tied directly to cycle time and throughput. Bonuses scale with how fast you drive labor hours per pool toward zero. Top of market for Texas.
Pay: $85,000.00 - $300,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
