About American Turbines

The power grid was built for a world that no longer exists. Centralized generation, hundred-mile transmission lines, decade-long permitting cycles. Meanwhile, demand is exploding: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.

American Turbines is designing small modular gas turbines, purpose-built for distributed power generation. Machines designed from a blank sheet to be manufactured at scale, clustered in arrays, and dispatched in minutes. Hundreds of units operating in parallel, dynamically matching load like a compute cluster matches demand. We are a seed-stage company backed by the investors behind SpaceX, Boom Supersonic, and Hadrian.

About the Role

The Operations Manager at American Turbines will own operational decisions such as procurement, supplier management, facility setup, utilities, payroll, benefits. You are the person who keeps the team supplied and the building running.

You will issue and track POs against the BOM, manage the machine shop, and chase every lead time on the critical path. You will stand up the workshop, get the utilities online, pull the permits, and run the day-to-day calls that keep the building open. You will own the people-ops backbone: payroll, benefits, PEO administration, onboarding, and HR compliance.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in manufacturing operations, procurement, or supply chain at a precision hardware company (aerospace, defense, or power equipment).

• Hands-on experience buying technical components: machined parts, exotic alloys.

• Direct vendor negotiation track record, including pulling in delivery dates when something slips.

• Prior tour at a seed to Series B startup, with the comfort to build the function from zero.

Compensation

$130,000 - $160,000 base. Generous stock package.

To apply, please email careers@americanturbines.com with your resume and any links to recent projects.