Production Manager, Aerospace

The Production Manager is responsible for leading daily manufacturing operations in a highly regulated aerospace and defense environment. This role ensures the safe, efficient, and cost-effective production of aerospace thermal management systems, heat exchangers, and related components while maintaining the highest standards of quality, delivery, and customer satisfaction.

• Lead from the Floor: This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll work alongside your team to solve problems and improve operations.


• Drive Operational Excellence: Champion Lean Manufacturing, process improvements, and equipment reliability.


• Industry-Leading Quality: Help maintain rigorous aerospace quality standards, including customer and NADCAP requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage production plans to meet customer delivery commitments.


• Drive operational excellence through effective resource allocation, workforce planning, and production scheduling.


• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) including on-time delivery, throughput, scrap, labor efficiency, and schedule attainment.


• Ensure compliance with aerospace and defense quality standards, including AS9100 and customer-specific requirements.


• Partner with Quality and Engineering teams to drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.


• Monitor work center load, labor capacity, tooling availability, and competing priorities to support short- and mid-term execution decisions.


• Bottleneck Forecasting: Forecast bottlenecks before they ground us — and solve them before they're even noticed


• Use standard supply chain processes and partner with the Supply Chain team to develop material replenishment system for the manufacturing areas


• Contribute to annual operating plans and long-term strategic initiatives.


• Manage multiple tasks to successful closure in a fast-paced environment.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or related discipline.


• Knowledge of the SAP system, MS office profound knowledge, supply chain and quality knowledge.


• Strong understanding of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and Operational Excellence methodologies.


• Proven skills as a problem-solver and a record of meeting deadlines and completing tasks on time, on budget and at an acceptable level of quality


• Have good interpersonal skills, be able to negotiate and manage conflicts of interests

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years' of Supervisory experience within an engineering and manufacturing business


• Lives the “continuous improvement” philosophy; develops and adopts new ideas and concepts


• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.


• Experience with aerospace thermal management systems, heat exchangers, brazing operations, precision fabrication, welding, or complex assembly environments.

Other Requirements:

Due to the nature of our business programs and products, applicants must have the legal right to work in the US and additionally must be legally authorized to access export-controlled information and source code.