Production Manager (Mgr Production 2) - 29320

About the role

HII – Mission Technologies is seeking a highly skilled Production Manager to join our Huntsville Production Team in support of U.S. Army and U.S. Navy aviation and training system production efforts.

This position provides critical production leadership, ensuring all PTT and aviation system builds meet engineering standards, quality benchmarks, and schedule commitments, directly contributing to fleet readiness, operational effectiveness, and mission success.

Come support our work with the DoW and join a world class team of groundbreaking scientists and engineers!

Responsibilities

• Supervise employees responsible for assembling component parts into subassemblies, finished assemblies, packaging, and completed units.
• Manage the production lifecycle of multiple PTT systems, ensuring build accuracy, configuration compliance, and on-time delivery.
• Develop and maintain production schedules, resource plans, and detailed build instructions.
• Cook up with engineering, logistics, quality assurance, procurement, and program management teams to ensure seamless execution.
• Monitor production risks, resolve operational and scheduling issues, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Lead and mentor production personnel, including technicians and engineering support staff.
• Support system testing, acceptance events, configuration management, and final delivery.
• Ensure adherence to safety, security, and quality standards throughout all production activities.
• Able to manage experienced professionals (e.g., engineers, scientists, analysts) who operate with significant autonomy in their assignments.
• Capable of leading one or more production sections, work centers, or an entire department.
• Strong understanding of technical data packages, BOMs, drawings, system integration, and manufacturing workflows.
• Effective communicator with strong organizational, planning, and leadership abilities.
• Skilled in resolving operational conflicts, schedule constraints, and cross-functional coordination challenges.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or Manufacturing.
• Minimum qualification of 12-15 years of direct manufacturing and production leadership.
• Experience developing and managing production schedules, budgets, staffing, and resource allocations.
• Experience supporting systems integration, testing, and production readiness activities.
• Must have ERP experience.
• Experience supervising cross-functional teams of technicians, assemblers, planners, quality control, and configuration management personnel.
• Strong organizational, communications, and problem solving skills.
• Manufacturing knowledge must include lean manufacturing, root cause analysis, risk management, ISO 9001 standards.
• Advanced understanding of capacity planning, production scheduling, labor optimization, inventory control and forecasting long lead items across multiple vendors.
• Secret Clearance with the US DOD requried at hire.

Preferred Requirements

• 5-10 years experience implementing ERP, MES, or digital manufacturing.
• Past experience managing competing priorities during production disruptions, supply shortages, equipment failures or workforce contstraints.
• Experience with Navy or DoD training systems, part task trainers, or simulators.
• PMP certification.
• Knowledge of FAR/DFARS requirements in government contracting.

Physical Requirements

May be required to visit job site in an industrial or shipboard environment. Normally not required to lift more than 40 pounds higher than three feet above feet/floor level.

Benefits

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe.
Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution – by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers.
Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class.

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this role is $79,315.00 - $130,000.00.

Schedule

Full Time/Salaried/Exempt