Production Manager in Santa Clara, California at Foxconn-PCE Technology
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Job Description
Company Overview:
Established in Taiwan in 1974, Hon Hai Technology Group, commonly known as Foxconn, is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and leading provider of technological solutions with a network of over 233 campuses across 24 countries. In the US, Foxconn employs 8,000 across 56 different sites with manufacturing operations in Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Texas, and California. As of 2025, Foxconn ranks 28th among the Fortune Global 500 and reported revenue of approximately USD $259 billion.
The company’s diverse product offerings span four major segments: smart consumer electronics, cloud, and networking solutions, computing, and various other components. Foxconn makes 40% of the consumer electronics that we find in our everyday lives. In recent years, Hon Hai has adopted the 3+3 strategy, focusing on three emerging industries - electric vehicles, digital health solutions, and robotics - while leveraging three key technologies: next-generation communications, artificial intelligence (AI), and semiconductors. Together, these initiatives position the company as a leader in innovation for the 21st century.
Hon Hai Technology Group is deeply committed to championing environmental sustainability within its manufacturing processes. By integrating sustainability into its operations framework, the company strives to serve as a best-practice model for global enterprises, enhancing corporate responsibility while meeting the growing demand for environmentally conscious production methods.
Job Summary:
The Production Manager is responsible for leading daily factory production operations for AI server, rack integration, and high-performance computing products. This role owns production execution, line performance, labor planning, output, quality, safety, cycle time, and schedule adherence across assigned manufacturing areas. The Production Manager partners with Program Management, Engineering, Quality, Planning, Materials, Warehouse, Logistics, and customer-facing teams to meet production commitments, resolve issues quickly, and improve factory performance from NPI ramp through mass production.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead daily AI server factory production operations, including production output, line efficiency, labor utilization, quality, safety, cycle time, and on-time delivery across assigned manufacturing areas.
- Convert build plans, customer priorities, capacity needs, and material availability into executable production schedules while coordinating supervisors, leads, technicians, operators, and support teams to meet factory goals.
- Drive production readiness and shop-floor execution, including staffing, work instructions, tooling, fixtures, test equipment, material staging, ESD controls, safety rules, and customer-specific requirements.
- Monitor production performance, bottlenecks, shortages, downtime, yield, defects, WIP, rework, scrap, labor efficiency, and schedule adherence; prepare recovery plans, reports, and escalation summaries as needed.
- Support NPI builds, pilot runs, production ramp, line qualification, engineering changes, customer priority builds, quality issue resolution, team development, and continuous improvement initiatives through stable mass production.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field required.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Business Administration (MBA), Operations Management, or a related field preferred.
- Lean Six Sigma, production management, quality, safety, or related operations certification preferred.
Experience:
- Ten (10)+ years of manufacturing, production, operations, or factory management experience in electronics manufacturing or related technology industries, including direct ownership of production execution, labor planning, output, quality, and schedule attainment.
- Three (3)+ years of people leadership experience managing production supervisors, leads, technicians, or operators in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, with demonstrated ability to coach teams, manage priorities, and drive accountability.
- Strong experience supporting NPI ramp, pilot builds, mass production, sustaining operations, engineering changes, customer priority builds, factory KPIs, material flow, quality systems, test processes, and AI server/rack integration or complex electronic products preferred.
EEOC Statement
Foxconn is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Foxconn prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, marital status, genetics, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal law. In addition to federal law requirements, Foxconn complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, and transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.