Business Process Engineer

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built.

Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.

If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.

The Role

The Business Process Engineer partners cross-functionally with leaders and teams throughout the organization to solve messy problems, set up new processes, capture data, action upon it, and enable others to do the same.

This position drives consistency and harmonization with frameworks, playbooks, templates, while maintaining velocity and focus on value.

Understand the operational landscape in depth and create solutions to operationalize our Build – Edit – Scale strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and roll out business processes, frameworks, and resources across a diverse set of stakeholders and programs.

• Setup processes for integrated scheduling and planning, defining process across systems from a user perspective. Systematize and automate to efficiently scale.

• Foster adoption and make business processes and frameworks actionable by creating tactical resources to implement them. Champion best practices.

• Drive creation and validation of dashboards, metrics, and operations models, including for labor standards and capacity. Demonstrate what good looks like with proactive insights and driving outcomes.

• Build relationships and influence change. Collaborate closely with engineers, technicians, and program managers to deeply understand their pain points, needs, and workflows.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in operations, consulting, transformation, industrial engineering, change management, or project management.

• Demonstrated experience defining and implementing business processes in fast-paced environments.

• Ability to collaborate and influence across all levels and disciplines.

• Process thinker with a business impact mindset.

• Ability to partner with stakeholders and drive accountability. Strong communicator and relationship builder.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience leading organizational change.

• Experience successfully taking new products and/or production systems from development to full-scale production.

• Undeterred by ambiguity and proven delivery of meaningful outcomes.

• Ability to bring structure and process to fast-paced environments while maintaining velocity.

• Ability to tailor communication strategies to match stakeholders.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
  401k

• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.

• Flexible vacation policy

• Equity

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