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Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing to help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost. The company recently closed a $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation and is rapidly expanding its manufacturing footprint with new capabilities in welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more.
The Business Operations Engineer will partner cross-functionally with leaders and teams throughout the organization to solve complex operational problems, establish new processes, capture and act on data, and enable others to do the same. This role drives consistency and harmonization with frameworks, playbooks, and templates while maintaining velocity and focus on value creation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and rolling out business processes, frameworks, and resources across diverse stakeholders and programs
- Setting up processes for integrated scheduling and planning, systematizing and automating to efficiently scale
- Fostering adoption of business processes by creating tactical resources and championing best practices
- Driving creation and validation of dashboards, metrics, and operations models, including labor standards and capacity planning
- Building relationships and influencing change by collaborating closely with engineers, technicians, and program managers to understand pain points and workflows
- Understanding the operational landscape in depth and creating solutions to operationalize the Build–Edit–Scale strategy
The ideal candidate will have deep experience in fast-paced, complex environments and the ability to bring structure and process while maintaining momentum.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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-oriented thinking with a business impact mindset
- Ability to partner with stakeholders and drive accountability; strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Experience leading organizational change (preferred)
- Experience successfully taking new products and/or production systems from development to full-scale production (preferred)
- Comfort with ambiguity and proven delivery of meaningful outcomes (preferred)
- Ability to tailor communication strategies to match stakeholders (preferred)
ITAR REQUIREMENT: Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
