Senior Manager Production

Job Title: Senior Manager Production

Department: Operations

Reports To: Director of Operations

SUMMARY

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, value teamwork, and are committed to excellence, this is your chance to make a real impact. We are a small defense manufacturing company poised for explosive growth. We are looking for an experienced professional to help us rapidly scale our operations while ensuring that we maintain the reputation our company has earned over the past 50-plus years.

The Senior Manager of Production’s responsibilities will include management and oversight of production, repair/rework, and sustainment activities with a focus on improving first pass quality and improving efficiencies.

The successful candidate will be able to provide examples of success in the following areas:

• Demonstrated experience managing teams in a high-mix, complex manufacturing environment.
• Proven success driving daily production performance, troubleshooting issues, and leading floor-level execution.
• Experience supporting or directly supervising hourly employees.
• Working knowledge of lean manufacturing principles, problem-solving methodologies, and continuous improvement tools.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage employees performing activities in multiple manufacturing disciplines.
• Develops and executes business plans and develops organizational and technical strategies.
• Focus on first pass quality. Refine processes that ensure quality products and work with the team to execute enablers that remove time and errors from our builds.
• Develops and maintains relationships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports.
• Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes.
• Ensure effective and compliant work instructions, training requirements, equipment management, and facilities.
• Manages, develops and motivates employees.
• Remove barriers and drive adherence to daily delivery commitments.
• Conduct daily tiered meetings and manage escalation paths to maintain communication and flow across upstream and downstream operations.
• Lead stabilization initiatives to address chronic bottlenecks, high-defect processes, and supplier-driven variability.
• Provide coaching and operational leadership to supervisors, leads, and hourly team members across the value stream.
• Foster a culture of accountability, safety, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
• Support change adoption relating to automation, process redesign, organizational shifts, and performance expectations.
• Work closely with engineering, quality, supply chain, and operations leaders to ensure production goals are met.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Must love guns.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite.
The selected candidate will be required to work onsite.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages Production Supervisors, Manufacturing Engineers/Techs, and assembly workers.

QUALIFICATIONS

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EXPORT CONTROL REQUIREMENTS:

• This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

EXPORT CONTROL DETAILS:

• US based job, US Person required

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university ; and five to seven years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Minimum of 5-7 years of operations/production planning experience.
• Minimum of 5 years in process mapping, documentation, and end-user training.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct people management experience.
• Solid knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and change management.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups and/or board of directors.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• None

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook, Visio, PDM, Syspro, in-house Quality Data Base, Solid Edge Viewer, Solid Works Viewer.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• This position requires the incumbent to stand, walk, sit, talk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee may occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job are close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and slight risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate in a manufacturing environment.

Employment with B.E. Meyers & Co. is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, Veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.