Machina Labs is seeking a Production Manager to lead daily manufacturing operations for robotic sheet metal forming and downstream production activities. The ideal candidate has experience managing production teams in aerospace, defense, automotive, precision sheet metal, machining, fabrication, or other complex manufacturing environments.
Requirements
- Lead and manage daily production activities across robotic forming, sheet metal fabrication, finishing, trimming, deburring, grinding, assembly, and related manufacturing operations.
- Own daily production execution, including schedule adherence, labor planning, machine uptime, quality performance, throughput, and shop floor priorities.
- Manage Production Supervisors, Leads, Technicians, and other production personnel as the organization scales.
- Run daily production standups to review safety, quality, delivery, staffing, equipment status, constraints, and customer priorities.
- Translate program requirements, engineering releases, customer needs, and production schedules into executable shop floor plans.
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to improve routers, travelers, setup sheets, work instructions, process documentation, and standard operating procedures.
- Ensure production teams maintain accurate documentation of process settings, machine status, nonconformances, rework, scrap, and lessons learned.
- Drive production readiness for new parts, new customer programs, and transition from prototype builds to repeatable production.
- Identify production bottlenecks and lead corrective actions to improve flow, reduce waste, and increase throughput.
- Work with Quality to ensure parts meet drawing requirements, inspection standards, customer specifications, and internal acceptance criteria.
- Support root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement efforts related to production defects, missed schedules, rework, and process escapes.
- Coordinate with Supply Chain and Planning to ensure materials, tooling, consumables, fixtures, and outside processing are available to support production.
- Provide feedback to Engineering, Estimating, and Program Management on producibility, lead time, labor requirements, cost drivers, capacity, and manufacturability risks.
- Maintain a safe, clean, disciplined, and organized production environment, including enforcement of safety practices, 5S, equipment care, and shop floor standards.
- Develop, coach, train, and mentor production personnel to improve technical capability, accountability, teamwork, and performance.
- Support hiring, onboarding, training, and workforce planning as production demand grows.
- Establish and track production KPIs, including safety, quality, delivery, cost, labor utilization, machine uptime, rework, scrap, and throughput.
- Help build the operating foundation required to scale Machina Labs' production capability across aerospace and defense applications.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k Matching
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
