Job Title: Sr. Production Supervisor

Job location: Torrance, CA

Salary: $100,000-$120,000/yr

We currently have an opportunity for a Sr Production Supervisorto lead a highly skilled manufacturing group at our Torrance, California location. In this position, you will be responsible for the high-quality assembly and test of precision Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) vacuum electronic components for commercial and government satellite applications; this requires meeting extremely high manufacturing standards with challenging lead times and cost considerations.

• Management and training of hourly employees
• Supporting development and implementation of Lean process improvement plans
• Providing accurate production status updates to Operations management, Program Management, Engineering, and downstream production areas.
• Ensure all work is completed on time and to specification
• Responsible for mentoring, leading and supervising employees
• Supervise the production flow within their respective areas and ensure safety and the efficiency of the entire shop floor
• Assess the work performance of employees against clearly established expectations and identify areas that need improvement (provide documented coaching where necessary)
• Work with technicians, manufacturing engineers, test engineers and quality teams to resolve reoccurring nonconformance issues
• Ensure that business goals, deadlines and performance standards are met
• Coordinate with engineering and other departments to minimize production interruptions
• Schedule risk identification and mitigation
• Collaborate with manufacturing and design engineers for development teardowns
• Perform root cause analysis and the implementation of corresponding corrective action plans
• Reduction of downtime for product and personnel
• Lead efforts to transition products from engineering development to full rate production
• Review work instructions to ensure shop floor tech27s have accurate and complete instructions and if necessary, recommend changes
• Meet tight production schedules to achieve high-rate production
• Train and onboard newly hired employees to make sure they understand their roles
• Drive shop floor culture, enforce systems and corporate policies
• Develop, initiating, coordinating, and enforcing system policies, and procedures
• Monitor labor hours and overtime, and implement improvement plans and strong time management with staff
• Capacity planning of equipment and personnel
• Conduct stand-up meetings with employees and management of area metrics

• Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment or 6+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment - preferably with manufacturing and testing of precision RF and electronic products.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated leadership skills are necessary, with previous supervisory experience highly preferred.
• Must be able to interpret detailed engineering drawings and associated assembly instructions.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills are required.
• Ability to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Previous experience working in a RF test environment.
• Familiarity with enterprise resource planning systems, such as Infor LN, is a plus.
• Experience in a union environment is beneficial.
• Lean manufacturing training and experience is a plus.
• Able to adapt to constant changing work assignments and fast paced work environment
• Excellent concentration and attention to detail with outstanding work efficiency and accuracy
• Safety training and/or safety certifications
• Experience monitoring, tracking and continually improving the total cost equation
• Experience with applying lean manufacturing principles, efficiency methods
• Experience solving manufacturing problems related to incapable processes and or designs
• Demonstrated record of high-performance
• Must be able to obtain a security clearance