About the Role
Oversee day-to-day data collection operations, ensuring operators, equipment, and processes are optimized for high-quality robotics data. Lead daily shift execution, coordinate operators and collection stations, monitor data quality, and address operational and technical issues.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the operations manager and robotics team to set up collection stations, storage areas, and workspace layouts.
- Translate task guidelines into operator-facing SOPs, checklists, and training materials, and run pilot sessions to refine processes.
- Support operator interviews and lead onboarding and training for new hires.
- Own daily shift execution by assigning operators to stations and tasks, managing the daily plan, covering gaps, and keeping collection sessions on schedule.
- Lead start-of-shift briefings covering plans, safety, and protocol changes, and prepare end-of-shift reports summarizing data collected, quality issues, hardware problems, and required follow-up.
- Monitor data quality in real time by spot-checking collection sessions, coaching operators on protocol adherence, and identifying data that does not meet quality standards.
- Serve as the first line of triage for equipment and software issues, escalating to lab technicians or engineering with clear reproduction details as needed.
- Enforce safety procedures, maintain an organized collection floor, and track throughput, quality, and operational issues to identify opportunities for process improvement.
- Manage day-to-day team needs, including attendance, breaks, performance coaching, and escalating concerns to the operations manager when appropriate.
Requirements
- 1+ years in a team lead, shift supervisor, or senior operator role in a hands-on environment (robotics data collection, teleoperation, warehouse/fulfillment, manufacturing, lab operations, or similar).
- Prior direct experience with robot teleoperation or motion-capture data collection.
- Strong written communication skills for shift reports, bug reports, and SOP updates.
- Comfortable operating within, and enforcing, structured safety and protocol requirements.
- Organized and calm under shifting plans; able to reprioritize when equipment or people are unavailable.
- Comfortable learning new tools quickly (issue trackers, scheduling tools, data dashboards).
- Able to stand and move around an active floor for most of the shift.
- Occasional lifting up to ~35 lbs.
Skills
- Robot teleoperation
- Motion-capture data collection
- Team leadership
- Data quality monitoring
- Process improvement
- Operator coaching
- Safety enforcement
- Technical troubleshooting
- Written communication
- Organizational skills
- Adaptability
- Quick learning
Experience Level
- 1+ years in a team lead, shift supervisor, or senior operator role
Benefits
- 401k
- Life Insurance
- Health Insurance
