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You know what it feels like to make the leap from "it works" to "it scales." + You have designed and built manufacturing equipment and facilities, not just specified them. + You're adaptable and confident working across environments-from hands-on time on the plant floor to engaging in strategic discussions with leadership. + You know your way around a shop. You have welded, machined, assembled, and prototyped hardware with your own hands, and you bring that fluency into every design review and vendor conversation. + You have led the translation of R&D into production at real scale, and can point to the products and plants that would not exist without your technical leadership. + You think in systems and platforms, but you are rooted in first principles. You have an instinct for when to standardize, when to customize, and how to encode learning into design so the next build is better than the last. + You have attacked both cost and reliability, demonstrated high caliber technical organizational leadership, and demonstrated engineering excellence that motivates all those around you. + You are fluent in modern manufacturing digitalization - MES, SCADA, data infrastructure, digital twins, ML-driven process control - and you know what these technologies can actually deliver versus what they promise. + You partner effectively with CEOs, boards, investors, and customers, and can represent the technical realities of a company that is simultaneously industrial, technological, and mission-driven. + You are drawn to problems where the technical challenge and the world-positive outcome are inseparable., + Advanced degree in engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, or a related discipline. PhD welcome but not required where experience is commensurate. + 15+ years of progressively senior technology and manufacturing leadership, including ownership of at least one large industrial scale-up. + Demonstrated experience leading technology strategy at the executive level, not only running operations. ## Description InventWood has successfully commercialized SUPERWOOD with the strength of steel and the soul and beauty of wood. It is a new category of aesthetic and structural material which can transform the built environment and lead to better lives for humans and the environment. With SUPERMILL ONE we successfully achieved commercial production at an industrial scale, and with SUPERMILL TWO we are bringing it to large scale. Next will be taking it into a global fleet of manufacturing plants, producing at a scale that can have impact across the planet. We're looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead that journey. The Role The CTO owns InventWood's manufacturing technology strategy from SUPERMILL TWO onward. This is a rare role at the intersection of deep process engineering, capital-intensive industrial scale-up, and platform design - because the objective is not to build one more mill, but to architect a replicable, modular manufacturing system that gets better, cheaper, and faster with every iteration. You will translate continuing R&D innovation into manufacturable reality. You will design the next generations of SUPERMILLS so each plant costs less, ramps faster, and produces a wider range of products than the last. And you will build the technical organization - process and equipment engineers, automation and controls specialists, data and AI teams - that makes a fleet of mills possible. You will report to the CEO and partner closely with the CSO, who owns the science and R&D, and with the operations leaders who run production day to day. 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