Production Manager

VVater is America’s Next Water Company, delivering the future of purification through its award-winning Farady Reactor (CES Best of Innovation 2025, World Future Award 2025), proprietary ALTEP (Advanced Low Tension Electroporation Process), Advanced Dissolved Air Flotation, and Micro & Nano Bubble technologies. Unlike outdated chemical, filter, and membrane systems, VVater’s electric-field breakthroughs eliminate PFAS, microplastics, microorganisms, and other contaminants with record retention times, without toxic byproducts or costly consumables. With over 4.3B gallons treated and validation from global leaders, VVater is scaling into municipal drinking water and wastewater, DPR/IPR, onsite reuse for data centers, commercial buildings, and resorts, residential purification, and consumer health water, delivering a 60% smaller footprint, 40% CapEx savings, 80% OpEx savings, and 40% less energy use. THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION BASED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. NO REMOTE OR HYBRID AVAILABILITY FOR THIS POSITION Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Production Manager owns the factory floor. You run the build of VVater's water and wastewater treatment systems from raw materials to finished, tested units, leading fabrication, electrical, controls, and automation integration, mechanical assembly, and final testing. You are the person who makes sure the floor runs on schedule, builds to spec, and ships quality product on time, every time. This is a hands-on, shop-floor leadership role. You are on the floor with your team, not behind a desk. You set the daily drumbeat, remove the roadblocks, uphold the standard for quality and safety, and drive the throughput that enables VVater to scale its manufacturing. You own what happens inside the four walls of the factory. Field installation, commissioning, and long-term O&M are owned elsewhere in the Operations organization; your mandate is to build and deliver flawless units off the production floor. Key Responsibilities Production Leadership Own daily production on the factory floor across fabrication, welding, electrical, controls and automation integration, mechanical assembly, and final test Run the daily production drumbeat: shift planning, work assignments, tier meetings, and floor coordination Drive on-time build completion and shipment against the master production schedule Remove roadblocks in real time to keep the floor moving and hold the line on quality and safety People & Team Lead, manage, and develop the shop floor team, including supervisors, leads, fabricators, welders, electricians, assembly, and automation technicians Set clear expectations, assign work to the right people, and hold the team accountable to standards and schedule Build the bench: mentor, train, and develop talent as the manufacturing organization scales Foster a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, safety, and continuous improvement on the floor Scheduling & Throughput Execute master production…