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AIRO Group is an aerospace and defense company building integrated platforms combining aircraft, autonomy, avionics, and mission services for high-stakes operations including contested logistics, tactical and long-range ISTAR, and precision-critical missions.
The Manufacturing Business Partner serves as the primary interface between Manufacturing and Business Development, translating customer and business opportunities into executable manufacturing requirements. This role ensures new business opportunities are evaluated against manufacturing capabilities, capacity, cost, schedule, and operational requirements, and that customer commitments can be effectively supported by the manufacturing organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Manufacturing & Business Development Interface:
- Serve as the primary point of contact between Manufacturing and Business Development for new business opportunities
- Partner with Business Development early in the opportunity process to understand customer requirements, quantities, schedules, objectives, and commercial expectations
- Translate opportunities into manufacturing requirements, assumptions, risks, and execution considerations, including capabilities, capacity, constraints, lead times, and operational requirements
- Represent Manufacturing in customer-facing and internal business-development discussions when appropriate
- Ensure Manufacturing is informed of customer commitments before they become contractual or operational commitments
Opportunity Evaluation & Proposal Support:
- Lead or coordinate manufacturing feasibility assessments and develop manufacturing inputs for proposals, including labor, capacity, production rates, lead times, costs, tooling, equipment, facilities, and other operational requirements
- Develop and maintain manufacturing ROMs and cost estimates, clearly communicating assumptions, confidence levels, risks, and execution challenges
- Support production plans and ramp-up strategies while ensuring manufacturing proposals and commitments are realistic and aligned with operational capabilities
Manufacturing Strategy & Capacity:
- Maintain a current understanding of manufacturing capabilities, available capacity, production rates, and key constraints
- Identify capacity, facility, equipment, labor, and process requirements associated with potential new business
- Support capacity expansion and resource planning based on the business-development pipeline
- Identify opportunities to leverage existing capabilities for new customers, products, or programs
- Communicate capability gaps to leadership
Opportunity-to-Production Transition:
- Support the transition of awarded opportunities from Business Development into Manufacturing
- Ensure proposal assumptions are clearly communicated to the operational organization
- Participate in program and production launch activities to align the original business case with the manufacturing execution plan
- Track significant changes to scope, quantities, schedules, or customer requirements
- Help resolve disconnects between customer commitments and manufacturing capabilities
Requirements:
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