Manufacturing Technical Lead

Austin, TX Manufacturing / On-site The Company MaverickX is engineering the future of chemistry for natural resource extraction. We are intensely focused on bringing economic value to our customers, shareholders, and employees – while solving pressing resource challenges facing the United States and the world. The Team The Director of Manufacturing is responsible for fully owning and scaling Maverick’s production capability. You will be a key member of the operations leadership team and will work directly with the Chief Executive Officer, while partnering closely with Technical, Sales & Business Development, and Finance. You will sit at the intersection of process, production, and commercialization, ensuring that manufacturing output is consistent, scalable, and aligned with real-world deployment needs. This role requires constant interaction across the organization to translate technical capabilities into reliable production and to ensure that manufacturing never becomes a constraint on growth. The Role In this hands-on role, you will take full ownership of manufacturing performance at Maverick’s Pleasanton production facility, ensuring that output, yield, and operational reliability are delivered consistently, at scale, and in alignment with commercial demand. You will be responsible for transforming an early-stage production system into a predictable, high-throughput manufacturing operation. This includes driving process scale-up, eliminating variability, and establishing the systems required for continuous, repeatable production. You will oversee reactor performance, downstream processing, and plant operations, ensuring that every batch meets defined quality and yield targets. You will define and control cost per liter, identify and remove bottlenecks, and implement the process controls necessary to support sustained scale. This is a highly visible role at the center of Maverick’s operations. You will work directly across Technical, Sales & Business Development, and Operations to ensure that manufacturing reliably supports field deployments and commercial growth. This role is critical to building a scalable industrial platform. The environment is fast-paced, execution-driven, and requires operating in real-world conditions rather than ideal ones.

Responsibilities

Manufacturing Operations & Performance

• Production Ownership: Own end-to-end manufacturing performance at the Pleasanton facility, including throughput, yield, cycle time, and batch consistency. Ensure production targets are met reliably and without dependence on individual operators.
• Process Scale-Up: Lead the scale-up of existing processes across large-volume reactors, identifying and eliminating failure modes that emerge at scale, including limitations in mixing, oxygen transfer, nutrient delivery, and phase behavior.
• Yield & Consistency Control: Drive improvements in active output per batch and reduce batch-to-batch variability. Establish clear performance baselines and enforce accountability for meeting them.
• Operational Reliability: Minimize downtime, eliminate recurring failure modes, and ensure the facility operates as a stable,...