Operations Manager at Vitesse Systems LLC – Newark, California

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain close surveillance over production through observation, personal contact, and staff meetings to ensure coordination and integration of workflow, timely production turnarounds, schedules, and utilization of personnel in the most cost-effective method and discipline.
• Coordinate activities of departments for which responsibility is delegated to further attainment of goals and objectives.
• Conduct or facilitate safety training curriculum.
• Responsible for job training requirements per established procedures and ensures skill matrices for each area are maintained.
• Responsible for labor clocking discipline and reviewing timecards to meet company standards.
• Participate in yearly budget planning to support head count and capital equipment needs.
• Responsible for creating operational plans to support budget.
• Responsible for capital equipment selection, installation, and startup.
• Responsible for shop floor layout and optimization of workflow.
• Responsible for emergency and hazardous situations.
• Oversee production schedule to optimize productivity throughout the shop to meet established goals and objectives.
• Work closely with the Quality Manager to implement, maintain, and ensure that quality goals and objectives are met.
• Ensure that personnel are meeting their required goals and objectives.
• Use job performance data to improvement inefficiencies regarding the shop, product, and process.
• Responsible for the preventive maintenance requirements program.
• Participate in MRB team and corrective and preventative action board.
• Perform all functions of the job while adhering to established quality policies and procedures.
• Uphold the company core values.
• Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Directly supervises employees and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities to include:

• Training employees
• Planning, assigning, and directing work
• Appraising performance
• Rewarding and disciplining employees
• Interviewing prospective employees
• Addressing complaints and resolving problems

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Successful accomplishment of duties and responsibilities may require the following:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Lean manufacturing experience.
• Previous management experience.
• CNC machining experience.
• CNC programming experience.
• Mechanical assembly experience.
• Software proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and an ERP system.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Must be adaptable to a changing work environment and competing demands.
• Customer service oriented.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent knowledge of brazing of SST, steel, aluminum, copper, and other metals.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• BS degree in Engineering or Operational Management
• Broad knowledge of a discipline such as electrical, chemical, or mechanical engineering, equal to a college degree.
• Minimum of 10-15 years of experience in a related field.
• Working knowledge of AS9100 quality system not required, but preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to speak and understand basic safety and manufacturing instructions.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers. Ability to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Authorization to work in the United States. To conform to U.S. export control regulations, you should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands and fingers; handle, feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and 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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee may be exposed to a hot and/or cold work environment, chemicals, fumes or airborne particles, loud noises, risk of electrical shock and vibration and/or other occupational hazards; personal protective equipment may be required.

NOTE: This job description identifies the general nature and scope of work to be performed. Vitesse Systems, LLC. reserves the right to revise all or any part of this job description and to add or eliminate essential job functions at any time. Designation of any job duty as an essential function is not intended as an assurance or guarantee that a team member has any right to perform the particular job duty, except as required by Vitesse Systems, LLC. This job description is subject to change based on the needs of the position and/or the Company.

Vitesse Systems, LLC performs work controlled by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These statutes require the protection of technical data and products. The regulations require that such data not be disclosed in written, oral, or visual form to any foreign national without prior export authorization from the Department of State. A foreign national is defined by the U.S. Government under EAR 734.2(b)(2)(ii) and 8 USC 110 (a)(20) as one who:

• Is not a United States citizen
• Is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the U.S.
• Does not have politically protected status (embassy, refugee, or asylum)