About Vital Lyfe

Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation, creating a new category of personal water-making technology built to scale where infrastructure can’t.

What You’ll Do

• Coordinate and lead the daily activities of production technicians and assemblers responsible for the manufacturing, testing, and packaging of Vital Lyfe systems.

• Establish, maintain, and enforce production standards, work instructions, safety protocols, and quality requirements.

• Conduct employee performance evaluations, provide coaching and development, and administer corrective actions when necessary.

• Interface with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Leadership teams to prioritize work based on production schedules, company objectives, and customer demand.

• Identify production risks and develop mitigation plans to ensure schedule adherence and operational continuity.

• Manage non-conforming hardware through inspection, troubleshooting, disposition, and corrective action processes to return products to a conforming state as efficiently as possible.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, cost, delivery, and productivity.

• Identify and eliminate sources of waste, defects, rework, and inefficiencies within the manufacturing value stream.

• Reduce equipment, material, and personnel downtime through proactive planning, process improvements, and resource management.

• Support the transition of products from engineering development, prototyping, and pilot builds into repeatable, scalable production processes.

• Provide constructive feedback to engineering and product development teams regarding design improvements, assembly challenges, process optimization, and cost reduction opportunities.

• Support and report key manufacturing metrics including throughput, yield, first-pass quality, labor efficiency, on-time delivery, and production capacity utilization.

• Foster a culture of accountability, urgency, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the production team.

• Build and maintain a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

• Support hiring, training, performance management, and workforce development initiatives.

What We Are Looking For

Basic Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate

• Bachelor’s degree; or 3+ years of professional experience in a manufacturing/production environment

• 1+ years of experience leading a team or project

Preferred SKills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment, including leadership responsibilities.

• Experience scaling production and supporting New Product Introduction (NPI).

• Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, or Six Sigma principles.

• Experience with ERP/MRP systems and production planning.

• Ability to read engineering drawings, BOMs, and technical documentation.

• Experience with root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.

• Strong understanding of quality systems, standard work, and manufacturing process control.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience in electromechanical, consumer hardware, aerospace, automotive, or other complex manufacturing environments is preferred.

Physical Job Requirements - Essential Functions

• Hands on work on development hardware.

• Long periods of standing, crouching, walking.

• Lifting up to 50 lbs

Why Join Vital Lyfe?

• Work on high impact problems with global relevance

• Help scale breakthrough technology in water security and climate resilience

• Early ownership in a high growth, engineering led startup

• Join a tight knit, mission driven team in a fast paced environment

• Build long term career equity as we grow

Location Requirement: Ability to work 100% onsite in Torrance, CA (remote or hybrid work will not be considered)

Vital Lyfe is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Vital Lyfe is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.