Production Manager in Newark, California at Unigen

Job Title: Production Manager
Job Function: Production
Job Overview: The Production Manager leads, manages, and develops Production team; drives improvements to Production process to meet quality, on-time delivery, and health & safety standards and objectives; and provides support and direction on all operational issues. Reports to Executive Vice President. Located at Unigen Headquarters in Newark, CA.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Achieve the weekly and monthly build plans by identifying bottlenecks and addressing availability, yield and efficiency issues cross functionally,
• Offer precise, validated, and timely production data analysis to support labor quotation; proactively resolve issues related to quotations and address concerns regarding labor quotations,
• Maintain a culture of adherence to standardized work and complying to documented processes and procedures to ensure safe practices and build products to quality sustained specifications,
• Work cross functionally to implement process changes, new product introduction, improvement projects and ensure corrective actions expeditiously,
• Assess project and resource requirements and assigning tasks and objectives through delegation, adhering to established processes to achieve the unit's goals,
• Oversee and improving production processes and address production issues,
• Create and uphold performance metrics, assessing employee performance, and suggest appropriate compensation and disciplinary actions as needed
• Organize relevant training sessions to new hires, developing work instructions and conducting on-job and other types of training
• Build a high-performance team, setting clear expectations, and manage their performance effectively.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a supervisory or management role in EMS industry (PCBA, Box build and/or conformal coating).
• Good technical understanding of processes, equipment, bottlenecks, and line balancing to work with Engineering and Maintenance teams.
• Proficient in: Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio. PLM is a plus
• Good understanding of ISO systems is a plus.

Salary Range: $95,000 to 132,000 / Year