Location
Long Beach or Torrance, California, United States; onsite manufacturing environment
Salary
$116,420–$160,080 per year
Company
Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing systems for automotive, aerospace, and defense customers.
What you will do
•Lead daily service operations for a growing fleet of additive manufacturing systems, covering safety, maintenance execution, equipment availability, and production support.
•Hire, train, coach, qualify, and develop Service Specialists and Lead Service Specialists.
•Establish standardized maintenance, troubleshooting, calibration, documentation, and service practices across shifts.
•Improve equipment reliability, utilization, service response, spare-parts strategies, and maintenance effectiveness using operational data.
•Coordinate Engineering, Production, Quality, Controls, suppliers, and service staff during installations, commissioning, upgrades, and complex equipment issues.
•Drive root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, safety improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
•Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls.
•Leadership experience in high-reliability manufacturing or technical environments, including performance management and team development.
•Experience leading maintenance, service, manufacturing, or technical operations in complex automated environments.
•Hands-on experience troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, automation, machine-control, and system-level issues.
•Hands-on experience with additive manufacturing technology, equipment, and processes in a factory environment.
•Strong analytical, communication, prioritization, documentation, safety, and structured problem-solving skills.
Nice to have
•Experience with metal additive manufacturing, large-format LPBF printers, laser systems, optics, precision motion, robotics, PLCs, or industrial networks.
•Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs, reliability metrics, workforce planning, or shift operations.
•Experience in aerospace, automotive, defense, AS9100, IATF 16949, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
Culture & Benefits
•Hands-on work in a fast-paced, high-mix manufacturing environment with frequent shop-floor activity and required PPE.
•Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
•Paid parental leave, HMO and Premium PPO health plans, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
•Equity plan, discretionary results-based incentive opportunities, and learning and development reimbursement.
•Collaborative, data-driven culture focused on safety, quality, accountability, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement.
