Plant Manager — Electroplating Line Build & Operations

Our mission

At Electrogenos, we're building technology to make green hydrogen competitive at scale. We focus on reducing the cost and complexity of hydrogen production so it can replace fossil-based alternatives across real-world applications. We're an early-stage team working at the intersection of electrochemistry, manufacturing, and deployment.

About The Role

We are looking for a hands-on Plant Manager to stand up and run our alkaline water electrolysis stack manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi, the person accountable for turning an existing warehouse into a working production line and then keeping it running safely, reliably, and to spec. This is a greenfield fit-out: the building is there, and it's on you to design and install what goes inside it. You will report directly to the CEO. This is a build-it-then-run-it role. In the first phase, you will lead the fit-out and commissioning of two core capabilities: an electrodeposition line for coating large metallic electrode surfaces, and the assembly line that turns those electrodes and components into finished stacks. You will lay out the facility, specify and bring in the equipment, get the utilities, chemistry, and safety systems in place, and prove the process works. In the second phase, you will build the team and own day-to-day operations; i.e. production throughput, quality, cost, safety, and people; as we ramp toward volume. You will also own basic product characterization and quality control: the in-line and end-of-line checks that confirm every coated surface and every assembled stack meets our performance and quality requirements before it leaves the plant. You will work closely with our R&D and engineering teams in the UK and Spain to transfer processes from the lab into repeatable, scalable manufacturing. This is a senior, on-site leadership role for someone who is as comfortable on the shop floor solving a plating-bath problem as they are planning a capacity ramp with the CEO.

Tasks

• Design the plant layout and lead the fit-out, installation, commissioning, and qualification of an industrial electrodeposition / electroplating line for large metallic electrode surfaces, specifying equipment, tanks, chemistry, rectifiers, rinsing, and effluent handling.
• Lead the fit-out and commissioning of the stack assembly facility, including tooling, fixtures, workstations, torque and sealing processes, and material flow.
• Set up basic product characterization and quality control; i.e. dimensional, coating, and electrochemical checks (e.g. cell voltage / polarization); and the pass/fail criteria for coated surfaces and finished stacks.
• Own the safe handling of plating and process chemistries: EHS systems, permits, chemical storage, ventilation, effluent treatment, and compliance with UAE regulations.
• Transfer processes from R&D into repeatable, documented, scalable production, working closely with the UK and Spain technical teams.
• Own day-to-day plant operations: production schedule, throughput, yield, cost, maintenance, and on-time delivery.
• Build and lead the plant team: hiring, training, shift structure, and performance.
• Manage suppliers and subcontractors for equipment, chemicals, components, and facility works.
• Establish and maintain a quality management system and the documentation, traceability, and records to support it.
• Report clearly to leadership on build progress, ramp status, quality, safety, cost, and risks.

Essential Skills

• Hands-on experience with industrial electroplating / electrodeposition, ideally including the installation and commissioning of electroplating facilities from scratch.
• 10+ years of professional experience, including proven success managing a manufacturing plant or production line end to end.
• Track record of greenfield line installation, fit-out, or major commissioning: you build the system rather than inherit it.
• Strong practical command of process qualification, quality control, and basic characterization methods.
• Serious EHS discipline, especially around chemical handling, hazardous processes, and effluent. you make safety non-negotiable.
• Team leadership: you have hired, trained, and run a production team, and can build one from the ground up.
• Comfortable moving fast in an early-stage, resource-constrained environment.
• Fluent English and willing to be based on-site in Abu Dhabi.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in hydrogen, electrolyzer, fuel cell, or battery manufacturing.
• Familiarity with alkaline electrolysis electrodes, nickel-based coatings, or catalytic surfaces.
• Experience commissioning plating lines and their supporting utilities and wastewater treatment.
• Lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement experience.
• Knowledge of quality and management-system standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001).
• Experience working in the UAE or wider GCC industrial environment.
• Spanish language skills.
• Comfort coordinating with technical teams across countries and time zones.

Your profile

You're a builder. You've taken a plating line from an empty warehouse to working production before, and you take pride in a plant that runs safely, hits its numbers, and turns out quality product every time. You're technical enough to get into a plating chemistry or an assembly-process problem yourself, and organised enough to plan a ramp, manage suppliers, hire a team, and keep leadership honestly informed. You stay calm under pressure, you own outcomes, and you're drawn to hard, meaningful problems and to being part of something at the frontier of the energy transition.

Why us?

• Own the build and operation of a plant that is central to our next few years, from an empty warehouse to volume production.
• Report directly to the CEO, with real decision-making scope from day one.
• Build your own plant team from the ground up.
• Work at the frontier of green hydrogen, on a technology with genuine potential to change the economics of the industry.
• A role that grows as the facility and the company scale.
• A mission-driven team building real technology for the energy transition.
• Competitive salary, discussed during the interview process.

About Us

Electrogenos is building technology to make green hydrogen competitive at scale. We focus on reducing the cost and complexity of hydrogen production so it can replace fossil-based alternatives across real-world applications.

We’re an early-stage team working at the intersection of electrochemistry, manufacturing, and deployment. Our approach is practical by design: use scalable materials and processes, and validate performance through close collaboration with partners.

If you want to work on hard problems with real climate impact—and help take breakthrough technology from concept to deployment—join us.

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