Production Manager, Avionics and Electro-Mechanical Verified today
The Role
This is a hands-on leadership role managing the Avionics and Electro-Mechanical Production team. You will own all work centers from piece part through assembly, test, and final acceptance. The team builds and tests avionics boxes, batteries, mechanisms and actuators, flight harnesses, and performs acceptance testing to deliver flight-ready hardware to vehicle integration.
You will be accountable for safety, quality, schedule, throughput, and team performance. You will spend dedicated time on the production floor, understand the hardware, remove blockers efficiently, and build systems to support higher-rate production.
Your Responsibilities
- Manage and develop Supervisors, Leads, and Technicians across avionics, electro-mechanical assembly, harness fabrication, PCBA rework, and component acceptance testing
- Own delivery of completed flight hardware to vehicle integration, ensuring hardware is built, tested, accepted, and delivered on or ahead of schedule
- Establish clear production priorities and drive daily execution against build and test schedules, proactively removing constraints across material, tooling, equipment, procedures, and resources
- Drive improvements in first-pass yield, cycle time, rework, throughput, and labor efficiency
- Ensure production work is executed with complete configuration control, traceability, and manufacturing records
- Establish effective production metrics and tools that provide visibility into output, quality, constraints, and recovery plans
- Serve as Production's voice to Engineering Leadership, influencing design, test strategy, and schedule decisions so hardware is built right the first time and delivered at rate
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience managing large production teams throughout development, manufacturing, and build processes for complex assemblies
- 8+ years of experience in production in a high volume, rapid environment in aerospace, defense, or complex hardware manufacturing industries
- Direct experience with flight hardware including electro-mechanical assemblies, harnesses, PCBA, solar, and box-level builds
- Familiarity with J-STD-001, IPC/WHMA-A-620, ESD control, and flight hardware traceability
- Track record of improving throughput and yield using data, with experience in MES or ERP-driven production
- Excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Demonstrated success leading from the floor in a fast-moving manufacturing environment