Operations Specialist — Pilot Manufacturing

Experience coordinating vendors, deliveries, maintenance activities, inventory, or workplace services.

Familiarity with industrial building systems, including HVAC, electrical, compressed air, emergency power, or fire protection.

Experience supporting metal fabrication, machining, assembly, prototyping, warehouse, or pilot manufacturing operations.

Experience with facilities ticketing, maintenance management, inventory, or vendor-management systems.

Experience supporting site startups, facility build-outs, equipment installation, or operational-readiness activities.

If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:

Cash compensation:

$31 - $45 per hour, based on experience.

Equity:

All employees are owners in the company. If we succeed, this equity could become the most valuable component of your compensation.

A comprehensive benefits package including:

This is a hands-on, service-oriented role that blends facilities operations, manufacturing support, workplace hospitality, inventory management and general site coordination.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, for Pilot Manufacturing, the Operations Specialist will help keep the facility safe, organized, stocked, functional, and ready to support demanding fabrication, assembly, testing, and production activities.

The Operations Specialist will frequently be the person who notices what needs attention and takes action before it becomes a disruption.

Responsibilities may range from coordinating a facility repair, restocking consumables, receiving a critical shipment, preparing the site for visitors, or resetting shared spaces to supporting vendors, maintaining operational records, and helping resolve requests from manufacturing and engineering teams.

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.

The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas, wherever they come from, can shape the company’s direction.