Leidos’ Defense Systems Colorado Manufacturing Facility is seeking a
Production Manager to join our team supporting a stand-alone manufacturing facility performing work on a hypersonic weapon system as well as other DOD and aerospace applications.
If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading!
Primary Responsibilities
As part of the site leadership team, the Production Manager will have the opportunity to work with a collaborative team to support our nations war fighters. Agility, flexibility, and creativity will be necessary to successfully navigate production challenges. Responsibilities include:
- Manage and lead a team of production technicians
- Maintain shop organization and 5S, performing weekly 5S audits
- Brief team in daily morning meeting on status of production jobs
- Work with production control team to understand deliverables and deploy resources effectively to support on time delivery
- Work with manufacturing engineering to continuously improve production flow
- Work with quality to understand status of nonconformities and support closure to move forward to the next step
- Identify production roadblocks and escalate to appropriate teams
- Hold team accountable to adhering to the written production processes
- Identify and support execution of continuous improvement projects
- Identify and escalate risks in the production processes
- Maintain department performance metrics
- Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess or be able to obtain Secret Clearance.
Basic Qualifications
- Candidate least 5+ years manufacturing experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
- Prior supervisory experience
- Prior exposure to precision machining and assembly processes
- Experience with MRP/ERP systems
- Understanding of GD&T
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Products, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Preferred Qualifications
- BS degree in engineering, logistics, or business
- Lean manufacturing experience with Six Sigma certification.
- Prior experience in Deltek Costpoint
- Secret Security Clearance
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Original Posting:July 23, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
