Senior Manager, Manufacturing Operations

About the role

Location: Nevada (Manufacturing Facility). Employment Type: Full-time, Exempt. Reports To: VP Manufacturing. The Senior Manager leads day-to-day manufacturing operations of Noovo's luxury camper van production facility, develops operating systems to support growth, owns manufacturing execution from chassis release through final vehicle completion and handoff to Quality and Delivery, and is accountable for safety, production output, schedule attainment, labor productivity, manufacturing quality, cost, standard work, workforce development, and continuous improvement across all production departments.

Responsibilities

• Lead all day-to-day manufacturing activities across Noovo's production operation.
• Provide direct leadership to Production Managers and manufacturing department leaders and ensure clear accountability for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity (SQDIP).
• Translate production requirements into daily operating priorities and maintain visibility to actual performance throughout the day.
• Ensure production issues are identified early, assigned clear ownership, and resolved before they affect downstream operations or customer commitments.
• Partner with Planning, Supply Chain, Inventory Control, and Production leadership to execute the Master Production Schedule.
• Establish daily and weekly production plans by vehicle, VIN, production stage, and department.
• Monitor production attainment and stage-to-stage movement and implement recovery plans when performance deviates from plan.
• Ensure manufacturing constraints are identified before they become production interruptions.
• Own manufacturing flow across the complete vehicle production process.
• Identify bottlenecks, capacity constraints, excessive WIP, imbalanced workloads, and inefficient material or vehicle movement.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to develop takt expectations, standard cycle times, staffing models, line balancing, capacity plans, and improved production layouts.
• Develop manufacturing capability necessary to support increasing production volumes and mixed-model manufacturing.
• Build and develop a strong manufacturing leadership organization.
• Establish clear responsibilities and expectations for Production Managers, Supervisors, Leads, and production employees.
• Coach manufacturing leaders in daily management, problem solving, employee development, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Develop succession plans, cross-training strategies, skills matrices, and workforce-development programs supporting future growth.
• Establish a manufacturing culture in which safe work is a prerequisite for production.
• Ensure supervisors and managers conduct routine safety observations and promptly correct unsafe conditions and behaviors.
• Partner with Safety and Facilities leadership on corrective actions, training, PPE, ergonomics, equipment safety, workplace organization, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure production demands never override established safety requirements.
• Own Manufacturing's responsibility for building the vehicle correctly the first time.
• Establish clear accountability for workmanship and process adherence throughout production.
• Partner with the Quality Director to improve First Pass Yield, reduce defects, eliminate repeat failures, and reduce rework.
• Ensure manufacturing teams follow released drawings, BOMs, work instructions, specifications, inspection requirements, and standard work.
• Reinforce the principle that Quality owns the quality system and independent verification; Manufacturing owns the quality of the work it produces.
• Establish repeatable manufacturing processes across all production departments.
• Ensure standard work is documented, trained, followed, audited, and continuously improved.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to develop work instructions, tooling, fixtures, process controls, visual aids, production layouts, and standardized work methods.
• Prevent undocumented tribal knowledge from becoming the manufacturing system.
• Lead development of a Lean manufacturing culture focused on identifying and eliminating waste.
• Drive improvements in flow, labor utilization, material movement