--- title: 'Production Manager at Promise Robotics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/production-manager-promise-robotics-phoenix-73qgpfq99m0v' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-25' --- # Production Manager at Promise Robotics - **Company:** Promise Robotics - **Location:** Phoenix, AZ - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/promiserobotics/143baea8-f501-49fc-9d32-9025e8b2cebb ## Job description We’re excited to launch a new state-of-the-art robotic homebuilding facility in partnership with several large homebuilders within the Pheonix area. Powered by Promise Robotics' transformative production lines for timber-based panelized construction, the new facility enables our group of homebuilding partners to significantly increase the capacity and speed of home production within the fast-growing region of Pheonix, AZ. We are looking for a passionate Production Manager to oversee the day-to-day operations.  The ideal candidate has strong leadership skills and a proven record in operational and financial responsibilities overseeing manufacturing and production operations, particularly in the field of timber-based residential construction. What you'll do: - Operational Leadership: Lead all aspects of factory operations, including production, maintenance, quality, and logistics to meet or exceed objectives. - Team Management: Hire, train, and supervise staff across all departments. Foster a collaborative and high performance-driven culture. By setting goals, tracking performance, and fostering continuous improvement. Collaborate with HR on staffing, hiring, training, and employee performance management. - Oversee Factory Production & Support Field Construction: Develop and manage the production schedules, ensuring timely delivery of products while optimizing labour, equipment, and materials. Monitor field construction performance, including safety, schedules, quality, and compliance. - Quality Control: Ensure all products meet quality standards and compliance with industry regulations. - Cost Management: Prepare, monitor and control budgets, production costs, and efficiencies to meet financial targets. Managing the P&L ensuring departments meet or exceed budgetary commitments. - Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvement, cost reduction, and operational efficiency. Implement strategies to improve cycle time and overall operational efficiency. - Reporting: Provide regular reports on production performance, safety metrics, and financial results. Analyze and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as production cycle times. - Customer Liaison: Act as the primary point of contact for clients, addressing concerns, providing updates, and ensuring long-term relationship success. Manage client liaison and relationship building, ensuring clear communication and alignment on production expectations, timelines, and quality standards. - Health and Safety Compliance: Maintain a safe work environment by enforcing health and safety standards and policies. What you will need to succeed: - Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, business, or related industry experience. - 15+ years of experience in a leadership role in housing construction processes or a manufacturing environment, preferably in prefab. - Strong understanding of production management, quality control, and health and safety standards. - Proven experience in a role with P&L responsibility by managing costs and driving operational efficiencies. - Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills. - Intermediate computer competencies within Microsoft Office preferred. - Ability to travel to Canada ~10%. Promise Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing employment opportunities without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Applicants requiring accommodation during the recruitment process may contact hr@promiserobotics.com ## About Promise Robotics ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Promise Robotics provides an AI-powered offsite construction platform that integrates robotics, software, and advanced manufacturing to help builders scale home production. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Ramtin Attar (CEO), Reza Nasseri (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Construction technology (PropTech / Construction Robotics) - **Target Customers**: Homebuilders, developers, and construction firms looking to scale production via offsite manufacturing and robotic automation. B2B, primarily mid-market to enterprise. - **Mission / Purpose**: To enable the building industry to harness automation toward producing more affordable and sustainable housing. ## Products & Services - **Factory-as-a-Service® Platform**: An integrated production platform that connects digital design, robotic production planning, factory operations, and on-site logistics. It allows builders to add scalable factory capacity without having to develop and operate the underlying technology themselves. - **Industrial Robotic Systems**: Custom automation cells and robotic workstations for tasks such as panel assembly, framing, and material handling. - **AI-Powered Production Software**: Cloud-based software for end-to-end lifecycle management of home production, from planning to logistics, including precise material and labor take-offs. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Total Funding**: ~$17.8M USD (including a Series A of ~$15M, Seed round, government grants, and debt financing). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue reported at ~$7M (estimated, as of latest data). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Horizons Ventures (lead Series A), Radical Ventures, PSP Investments, Relay Ventures, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Named to BuiltWorlds’ Robotics Top 50 for three consecutive years (2024–2026). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~40 employees (+34.3% YoY). Won the Gold Game-Changer in the CMHC Housing Supply Challenge (2022). Recognized as one of Canada’s Proptech 30 and a CIX Top 20 startup. The company has 3 issued patents for automated assembly of building structures and is actively hiring across engineering and site roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Integrated Platform vs. Point Solution**: Promise Robotics combines robotics, software, and factory operations into a single turnkey platform (Factory-as-a-Service), rather than selling just robots or just software. This bundling creates higher switching costs and deeper value for customers. - **Intelligent Workflow Orchestration**: Their AI optimizes the entire process from digital design to robotic production to site logistics, improving cost certainty and reducing waste. - **Proven Impact**: They have a track record of delivering factory-based production capacity to homebuilders and have been validated by major industry awards, a government housing challenge win, and multiple patent grants. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale Through Factory-as-a-Service**: Scaling the platform by partnering with more builders, enabling production ramp without requiring customers to build their own factories. - **Deepening the AI & Robotics Stack**: Continued investment in AI developers, robotics software, and controls engineering to improve production efficiency and automation capabilities. - **Geographic Expansion**: Operating in Canada and the United States, with plans to grow further across North America given the housing shortage. - **Sustainability Focus**: Leveraging automation to produce highly efficient, sustainable buildings with less material waste and lower carbon footprint. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven Impact**: Employees work on directly addressing the housing crisis and climate change through automation and sustainable construction. - **Cutting-Edge Tech Stack**: The team works with modern robotics (KUKA), AI frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), simulation tools (FlexSim, AnyLogic), and cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker) — a strong environment for engineers who love hands-on hardware/software integration. - **Growth-Oriented Culture**: High headcount growth (+34% YoY) and a small team (~40 people) suggest fast-moving, high-autonomy roles with significant ownership. - **Collaborative & Creative Values**: The company emphasizes a “creative and innovative” culture, valuing confidence, openness, and curiosity. - **Office Presence**: Multiple locations including Toronto (HQ) and Calgary. Roles are currently on-site for production positions (site framers, material handlers) with engineering roles likely hybrid or on-site given the hardware focus. - **Recent Hiring Momentum**: 6 active job postings (Senior Site Framer, Production Framer, Proposal Writer, AI Developers, Robotics Software Developer, Mechanical Engineer) — they are scaling their engineering and production teams rapidly. ## Sources 1. [promiserobotics.com](https://promiserobotics.com/about/) 2. [promiserobotics.com](https://promiserobotics.com/careers/) 3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/promise-robotics) 4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/promise-robotics) 5. 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