Senior Manager Production

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 and looking for an experienced professional to help us rapidly scale our operations while maintaining the reputation our company has earned over the past 50‑plus years.

Job Title: Senior Manager Production
Department: Operations
Reports To: Director of Operations

• Manage employees performing activities in multiple manufacturing disciplines.
• Develop, execute business plans and organizational and technical strategies.
• Focus on first pass quality; refine processes that ensure quality products and work with the team to remove time and errors from our builds.
• Develop and maintain relationships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports.
• Provide oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes.
• Ensure effective and compliant work instructions, training requirements, equipment management and facilities.
• Manage, develop and motivate 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.

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

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 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.
• US based job, US Person required.

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four‑year college or university and five to seven years related experience and/or training; or an 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.

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

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

• None

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

• 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…