Job details

Domain

Production

Job field / Job profile

Manufacture assembly and repair - Workshop manager

Job title

Production Line Manager

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

Reporting directly to the site Production Manager, you will be responsible for all activities of one or more repair production lines. You will manage a repair production team coordinated by a Technician/Leader for each line.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.
• Ensuring that the customer's needs are met while respecting safety, quality, costs, and delivery deadlines.
• Ensuring the required transformations and change management.
• Providing a vision and uniting the teams around the entity's challenges.
• Organizing your teams in a way that promotes multidisciplinary contributions, autonomy, accountability, and cross-functionality with the aim of being agile and adaptable to operational contingencies and customer needs.
• Ensuring that competencies and resources are maintained at the highest level within the expanded scope.
• Ensuring the accessibility and quality of data in the sector.
Guaranteeing the use of and compliance with the referential.
• Ensuring compliance of all production, processes and the correct application of all directives (Part 145 regulations, HSE, etc.).
Managerial Focus / Organizing the activity:
• Maintaining a working environment that complies with HSE requirements and ensuring the safety of the teams working under your responsibility
• Implementing the guidelines and objectives of the Site Manager for your scope of responsibility into SQCDP (Safety - Quality - Cost - Delivery - People) operational objectives in line with other Production Line Managers.
• Ensuring that products are repaired in terms of quality and quantity to meet customer order requirements within the set deadlines and costs
• Managing and planning the resources of the repair production lines around a workload / capacity tool in terms of repair production resources and staff (quantities and competencies). Anticipating the needs related to the ramp-up of the repair production tool.
• Identifying training needs, defining training initiatives to ensure the development of the team, and contributing to employee career management.
• Managing the skills and training of the teams to guarantee the quality of operations
Implementing effective communication within the team/repair production lines by ensuring communication routines to maintain a good social climate.
• Promoting the functioning of the teams in line with the leadership model principles.
Responsible for ensuring that employees comply with all Policies and Procedures
Operational Focus / Managing performance:
• Monitoring the performance indicators of the repair production lines in relation to the monthly targets and developing continuous improvement plans (improvement project): 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, etc.

Candidate skills & requirements

a) Knowledge and Skills
• Aviation/Aerospace Component Repair Knowledge including CMM, Quality systems and manuals
• Computer Proficiency (Microsoft Suite)
• Performance management (quality, costs, deadlines)
• Production management/repair management

b) Competencies
• Technical Knowledge
• Risk Management
• Continuous improvement/Lean
• HSE requirements
• Skills Development
• Organizational Skills
• Leadership Capabilities
• Interpersonal Skills
• Change Management
• Process Oriented
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS, CONT'D
• Communications Proficiency
• Time/Priority Management
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Discretion

c) Education and/or Experience
• Bachelor's degree + 5 years / Engineering degree - General or Mechanical
• 3 to 5 years' successful experience in manufacturing, installation, or repairs would be a considerable asset for this position. Experience in team management would be a plus.
Strong production/repair management and performance management skills.
Profile with proven initial experience in a similar field and immediately operational

d) Communication Skills
• Good oral and written communication skills essential for interaction with both internal and external customers

e) Physical Demands
• The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to t

Annual salary

Experience

Job location

Job location

North America, United States, California, Los Angeles

City (-ies)

Van Nuys

Applicant criteria

Minimum education level achieved

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum experience level required

More than 5 years

ITAR Controlled Position: Select "Yes" if role requires U.S. citizenship/permanent residency

No