manufacturing manager

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop supervisors, team leads, and manufacturing associates.
• Set clear expectations for accountability, teamwork, attendance, quality, and execution.
• Support performance discussions, skill development, recognition, and succession planning.
• Manage daily production priorities, labor allocation, and schedule attainment.
• Remove barriers that impact delivery, productivity, or project milestones.
• Use daily management, GEMBA, and visual controls to improve flow and execution.
• Champion a Safety-First culture and ensure compliance with site procedures.
• Drive quality ownership at the source and support corrective actions.
• Reduce rework, NCRs, and repeat issues through root cause problem solving.
• Lead Lean, Kaizen, standard work, and visual management initiatives.
• Improve throughput, labor productivity, first-pass quality, and schedule reliability.
• Sustain and deploy ATS Business Model.
• Partner with Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, Quality, and Service.
• Support manufacturability improvements, material readiness, FAT preparation, and customer milestones.
• Escalate risks early with clear recovery plans and ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of manufacturing, production, assembly, fabrication, or industrial operations experience.
• 2+ years leading people, shifts, cells, departments, or production teams.
• Demonstrated ability to improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, or employee engagement.
• Strong communication, follow-through, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in capital equipment, industrial machinery, pharma equipment, aerospace, automation, or engineer-to-order manufacturing.
• Exposure to fabrication, machining, welding, mechanical assembly, electrical assembly, or test operations.
• Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma, daily management, or visual factory experience.
• ERP/MRP experience and comfort using data to manage priorities and performance.
• Experience leading cross-functional improvement projects.