Manager, Manufacturing Operations

The Job:  

As a Manufacturing Operations Manager, you’ll be part of our Aerospace team working as an on-site employee. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for daily production of metal formed and machine components along with driving continuity of supply in other value streams feeding the immediate area of control. A comprehensive value stream approach to achieving monthly revenue is also tied to completion of downstream operations as well. You’ll get to:

• Ensures to run a safe, injury/accident-free workplace.
• Responsible for daily management and leadership of all resources assigned.  Typical responsibilities include but are not limited to: TOC, schedule adherence, productivity, personnel development, time and attendance, training and establishing/monitoring departmental goals.
• Manage MOS and update board daily to ensure accurate tracking of KPIs plus actions related to "red" indicators 
• Enhance the operational procedures, processes and systems to improve operational efficiencies.
• Work independently and within a team while coordinating with other Departmental Leaders and/or Managers to achieve Daily/Weekly/Monthly goals and objectives.
• Interprets company policies to workers, leads by example and enforces all Federal, State and local regulations.
• Creates a departmental cross training matrix and mentors assigned personnel.
• Deploys team members to both strategically and tactically engage in cross functional problem solving to improve production efficiency and product quality.
• Execute the production schedule, manage people, assets, tooling and materials in running the production in most productive fashion; engage actively in potential schedule or requirement changes; ensure and enhance production schedule adherence to dispatch (ATD).
• Manage Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and other reporting daily to drive performance in all assigned areas; and ensure all production data accuracies.
• Ensure employees are trained on post manufacturing processing procedures and practices.
• Review variable costs, productivity, earned standard hours and throughput daily and implement effective recovery or corrective actions when targets are not achieved.
• Actively participate Continuous Improvement (CI) projects to increase efficiency, productivity and machine utilization while reducing overall cost.
• Provide manufacturing expertise when problems arise.
• Formulates and maintains the highest standards of housekeeping (6S) in all areas assigned.
• Support and improve upon quality initiatives designed to meet plant goals.
• Manage preventative maintenance performed by production employees.
• Other duties as assigned to meet facility goals 

The Person:  

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have: 

• Technical degree preferred: Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc 
• Experience with metal forming, machining, chemical processing and heat-treating would be a plus
• Must have at least 5+ years of experience as an operations manager or similar role in Aerospace, Industrial Manufacturing, Automotive or similar industry
• Experience with metal forming, hardening, tempering, annealing, and other heat-treating processes would be a plus.
• Analytical skills and experience with techniques to improve quality, reduce rework and increase productivity.
• Supervisory experience leading teams of 40+ people; Performance management skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with all levels of organization, especially with direct employees.
• Intermediate use of ERP (JDE), MS Word, Excel, Access, Outlook; other PowerBI and productivity tools.
• Quality focused & production driven.

Salary Range:

The base pay range for this position in California is $145,000 - $160,000+/year. Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.