Senior Manufacturing Engineer

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before. Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

Overview As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at REGENT, you’ll play a critical role in the way we build Manufacturing at REGENT. Over the next two years, you will help lock in our product cost, rate, and quality for years to come. This role exists because we are at the moment where prototype habits have to become production systems—and we need an owner who can bridge process engineering and floor-level execution to make that happen. You will own manufacturing execution and process development across fabrication, assembly, finishing, and structural joining. You'll lead the transition from prototype builds on Paladin into a repeatable, production-capable system for Viceroy, while working directly with Advanced Engineering to make sure structures are designed to be built—not just designed to fly. Success in this role looks concrete. In your first 12–18 months, manufacturing processes are defined, validated, and repeatable. Production runs are stable and not dependent on any single technician. Designs reflect real manufacturing constraints. Tooling, equipment, and processes pull in the same direction. The team is trained and ready to support our first low-rate production builds. If you've spent your career wanting to build a manufacturing system from the ground up—rather than tuning one that already exists—this is the version of that job that exists right now. Bring your hands, your judgment, and your standards.

Lead production execution. Own day-to-day output across fabrication, assembly, and finishing—accountable for schedule adherence, yield, rework, and process stability. Define and industrialize the process. Build the standard work, process flows, work instructions, control plans, and PFMEAs that turn craft-level builds into a repeatable production system. Embed in design (DFX). Partner with Advanced Engineering through PDR and CDR to influence part segmentation, material and process selection, and assembly strategy before drawings lock. Drive process and production standards. Define and validate manufacturing processes; tighten variability drivers; lock down material handling and traceability. Integrate tooling, facilities, and automation. Work with tooling and facilities teams on equipment and material flow requirements, and support integration of automation and robotic systems where they earn their place. Build technician capability. Develop training paths, visual instructions, certification, and 5S practices so consistency lives in the system, not in a few star technicians. Drive continuous improvement. Use production feedback to attack yield loss, cycle time, and variability—measure the baseline, change the mechanism, and prove the improvement.

Strong, hands-on depth in manufacturing. Demonstrated experience across fabrication, assembly, and finishing on real structural parts—not just process oversight. A combination of process engineering and production experience. A track record in both: defining processes, DFX, and work instructions on one side, and supporting or leading builds on the floor on the other. Proven experience