Reactive Shop Coordinator

Joby Aviation Joby Aviation · Robotics · Santa Cruz, CA · R&D Machine Shop

Joby Aviation is seeking a Reactive Shop Coordinator to manage and track machine shop team activities, including scheduling, job coordination, equipment maintenance, inventory, and purchasing. This role supports the development, certification, and production of eVTOL aircraft.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assists scheduling and priorities for upcoming CNC machining jobs, equipment maintenance, and repair
  2. Assist Fabrication and Water Jet teams with job scheduling, ordering, equipment maintenance and repairs
  3. Keeps internal customers (engineers) and team informed about the status of their requests with regular updates through verbal communication, Jira ticketing system and Slack channels
  4. Coordinates with engineers, designers and program management to ensure priorities of parts are being adhered to
  5. Assists with ordering of raw materials

Skills

Required

  • HS Diploma or GED Equivalent
  • Previous experience with Inventory Management; Machine shop,Warehouse, and/or Manufacturing related industry
  • Highly organized in physical space raw materials and tooling inventory
  • Highly organized in digital workspace and documentation processes
  • Strong computer skills, familiar with working in spreadsheets
  • Familiar with purchasing and receiving processes and documentation
  • Strong customer relations, communication, and negotiating skills between suppliers, engineers, shop floor team and planning teams
  • Valid driver’s license with the ability to transport materials between facilities
  • Ability to lift, carry, and move materials weighing up to 50 lbs aided or unaided throughout the day

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting R&D, Aerospace, Aviation, or Advanced Manufacturing work environments
  • Familiarity with Flight Article processes
  • Familiarity with CNC machining processes
  • Experience with GD&T and Blueprint reading
  • Raw materials and consumable knowledge
  • Experience with Slack
  • Experience with Jira
  • Experience with Microsoft Excel, Sharepoint, Dynamics 365 and Google Sheets & Docs
  • Experience with inventory management software and processes
  • Fusion360 modeling basics