You'll design and scale SUIND's UAV production to 100+ systems a month, starting with Bumblebee and expanding to future platforms like WASP. This means building the production system, not running one someone else built.

This role owns building and running a structured production process for UAV systems: assembly planning, technician management, production documentation, process control, and coordination across procurement and engineering. You'll be onboarded by a mechatronics engineer currently leading assembly, and take ownership of a small, technically strong team that's ready to grow.

The ideal person is comfortable with low-volume, high-complexity hardware manufacturing where designs may evolve, quality matters, and field reliability is critical.

Key Responsibilities

- Own day-to-day production planning and execution for SUIND's UAV systems.
- Convert engineering-led assembly into a repeatable manufacturing process.
- Set up production workflows, assembly stations, work instructions and process checklists.
- Manage production technicians, integration teams and assembly schedules.
- Coordinate with engineering for design updates, manufacturability improvements and issue resolution.
- Coordinate with procurement and stores to ensure material availability.
- Maintain BOM discipline, version control and production documentation.
- Implement serial number tracking, batch records and production traceability.
- Work with QA/QC to define and enforce quality gates.
- Track production output, rework, failures, delays and bottlenecks.
- Support creation of jigs, fixtures, calibration processes and testing workflows.
- Ensure safety, cleanliness and discipline on the production floor.
- Plan production capacity based on sales forecasts and business requirements.
- Support service, repair and field issue feedback loops.

Requirements





- Experience setting up assembly lines or production cells from scratch.
- 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, production, operations or hardware assembly. What matters more than years is whether you've actually set up and scaled a production system.
- Experience with robotics, drones/UAVs, aerospace, defence hardware, EVs, or similar high-complexity hardware.
- Solid grasp of production planning and shop-floor execution.
- Experience managing technicians and cross-functional production teams.
- Ability to create and enforce work instructions, checklists and process discipline.
- Comfort with evolving products and low-volume/high-complexity manufacturing.
- A problem-solving, execution-first mindset.

Positive to Have

- Experience in drone/UAV manufacturing.
- Experience with ISO-style quality systems, production traceability or aerospace/defence manufacturing practices.
- Experience with inventory systems, ERP/MRP tools or BOM management.
- Comfortable coordinating across engineering, procurement, QA and management.
- Knowledge of wiring harnesses, electronics integration, composite structures, propulsion systems or flight controllers.

Who Will Succeed in This RoleYou will succeed if you are hands-on, process-driven and comfortable building systems from the ground up: someone who wants to design a production system, not inherit one. SUIND doesn't need someone who only maintains an existing factory line. We need someone who can create the production engine for a new category of autonomous aerial systems.

This is also a different problem from high-volume mass production. If your background is exclusively large-scale automotive (10,000+ units/day), the skills this role needs (working with evolving designs, low-volume discipline, hands-on troubleshooting) are a different set. Worth weighing before you apply.

📌 Head of Production / Manufacturing manager – UAV Systems (Bengaluru)
🏢 SUIND
📍 Bengaluru