Production Manager

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 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.