Production Manager

About the Company

Unigen is a global technology company providing innovative electronics manufacturing and product solutions to customers across diverse industries. With decades of industry experience and operations in key global markets, we combine engineering expertise, advanced manufacturing capabilities, and responsive customer service to deliver reliable, high-quality solutions—from product development through production and fulfillment.

Location and Work Arrangement

This position is based in Newark, California and is onsite.

About the Role

The Production Manager leads, manages, and develops the Production team; drives improvements to the Production process to meet quality, on-time delivery, and health & safety standards and objectives; and provides support and direction on all operational issues. Reports to the Executive Vice President.

Responsibilities

• Achieve the weekly and monthly build plans by identifying bottlenecks and addressing availability, yield, and efficiency issues cross-functionally.
• Offer precise, validated, and timely production data analysis to support labor quotation; proactively resolve issues related to quotations and address concerns regarding labor quotations.
• Maintain a culture of adherence to standardized work and compliance with documented processes and procedures to ensure safe practices and build products to quality-sustained specifications.
• Work cross-functionally to implement process changes, new product introductions, improvement projects, and ensure corrective actions expeditiously.
• Assess project and resource requirements and assign tasks and objectives through delegation, adhering to established processes to achieve the unit's goals.
• Oversee and improve production processes and address production issues.
• Create and uphold performance metrics, assess employee performance, and suggest appropriate compensation and disciplinary actions as needed.
• Organize relevant training sessions for new hires, develop work instructions, and conduct on-the-job and other types of training.
• Build a high-performance team, set clear expectations, and manage their performance effectively.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a supervisory or management role in the EMS industry (PCBA, Box build, and/or conformal coating).
• Good technical understanding of processes, equipment, bottlenecks, and line balancing to work with Engineering and Maintenance teams.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio. PLM is a plus.
• Good understanding of ISO systems is a plus.

Pay

$95,000 to $132,000 per year.