# Director of Production [Covenantindustries](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Covenantindustries) · Grand Prairie, TX · Posted yesterday Director [Apply on the original posting → (opens in a new tab)](https://www.comeet.com/jobs/covenantindustries/3B.00F/director-of-production/AD.472) ## Job description ### Title: Director of Production ### Location: Grand Prairie, Texas ### COMPANY OVERVIEW Covenant is a global defense company headquartered in Washington, D.C., building long-range precision strike weapons for the United States and its allies. Its flagship munition, Anthem, combines heavy payload and long range at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy systems, with production volumes designed to meet the demands of prolonged conflict. Designed as an end-to-end weapon system that is simple to store, transport, and field, Anthem is produced in the United States, Germany, and Israel. For more information, visit covenant.com ### THE ROLE This is not a role where you inherit a factory. You build one. As Director of Production, you will take Anthem from low-rate build to high-volume production at our new Grand Prairie site. You will own the plan, the floor, the team, and the output. You will be given a target and a date, and the freedom to decide how to hit them. If you have scaled a line before and felt slowed down by bureaucracy, this is the role where that stops. Few people get to stand up a defense production site from an empty building. This is one of those chances. ### WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the ramp. Turn delivery commitments into a concrete plan covering budget, headcount, equipment, facility, tooling, and timeline. Then execute it. - Build the factory. Stand up the Grand Prairie production environment from the ground up: layout, workflow, tooling, equipment, and buildout sequence. - Scale without breaking. Establish production processes, documentation, and controls that meet our quality and regulatory requirements while ramping to meet customer demand. - Build your team. Recruit and lead the production organization. Bring people you trust, and develop the ones you hire. - Design how we build. Define your team's production methods, standard work, and the metrics that drive daily performance. - Know the whole chain. Understand what is required at every step, from raw material and long-lead items through subassembly, integration, and test. - De-risk supply. Partner with Engineering and Supply Chain to manage cost, lead time, and risk, with real alternatives wherever we are single-sourced. - Close the loop with design. Work alongside Engineering so designs are producible and floor feedback reaches design fast. - Operate globally. Work with our Israeli and European production teams as part of one global system. - Make safety and quality non-negotiable. Build quality into the process, establish a strong safety culture, and meet regulatory and export-control obligations for U.S. defense production. ### REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - 10+ years in production, manufacturing operations, or industrial engineering, with real ownership of a factory, a line, a program, or a site. - A proven record of taking a product from low-volume build to repeatable, high-volume production, with results you can quantify (rate, yield, cost, cycle time). - Fluency in supply chain: sourcing, supplier qualification, lead times, cost, and risk. - A track record of hiring and leading production teams through rapid growth. - Must be a U.S. person and eligible to work on U.S. defense production programs, including the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance. ### PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Mass-manufacturing experience in high-rate automotive, aerospace, or defense production. - Time at a fast-moving startup or a high-growth hardware company. - Experience standing up a new site or a new production line from scratch. - Prior defense or aerospace production experience, including work under ITAR and export controls. - Experience working with production partners outside the U.S. ### WHAT MAKES YOU SUCCESSFUL - Builder's instinct. Give you an outcome and a date, and you scope the budget, headcount, and plan yourself. - High energy, high ownership. You move fast, adapt when plans change, and solve problems without waiting for permission. - A talent magnet. You have a network of strong operators who will follow you, and you know how to hire more. - Bias for action in a regulated world. You hold speed and compliance at the same time, never trading one for the other. - Global mindset. You are comfortable working across Israel, Europe, and the U.S. in a multicultural company. - Humble and hungry. You learn how we work, then make it better. ### WHY COVENANT You will build something that matters, fast, with direct impact on the security of the U.S. and its allies. You will have real ownership, a seat at the table, and the chance to define how a new generation of defense production gets done. **Live in Covenantindustries’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role. 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