Senior Manufacturing Manager

About Us:

Pacific Defense is an industry leading developer of advanced RF and electronics systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial customers. We specialize in Open Systems Architecture solutions for the non-kinetic fight. Our vision provides cost effective, highly capable, modular, and rapidly reconfigurable systems to our customers in less than half the time of traditional defense contractors. Our team delivers sensing and effects solutions for the Land, Air, Sea and Space domains at an unprecedented pace. We accomplish this strategy by combining broad domain experience in Radar, EW, SIGINT, and Communications with a go-fast commercial execution model. Our model fully leverages Open Standards, like SOSA, CMOSS, and MORA, as well as rapid prototyping methodologies to bring our advanced capabilities to customers. The Pacific Defense family includes Perceptronics Solutions with expertise spanning signal processing, novel algorithm development, cognitive systems, high performance computing, hardware design and development, and systems integration and test. We embrace the diversity of people, ideas, and a great employee experience to drive the innovation that runs through everything we do. Pacific Defense has established an excellent reputation in our professional community and is growing our team to seize new opportunities to solve tough challenges for national defense. Come join our team and accelerate your career!

Pacific Defense is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Manager who can serve as a hands-on leader to drive our day-to-day manufacturing activities. This candidate should excel in communication and collaboration with various departments, including finance, HR, and logistics, to establish budgets, hire personnel, and ensure smooth product delivery. They will be responsible for setting production goals, maintaining schedules, and upholding quality standards. The ideal candidate must be adept at generating and presenting manufacturing data to management, analyzing production information to optimize efficiency, and strategically managing equipment layout and material flow. Safety and performance standards are essential, and the candidate should be proactive in identifying and implementing operational improvements.

Requirements

• Must have DOD experience with a strong understanding of military standards.
• Must have hands on experience running and managing day to day factory/assembly operations.
• Must have manufacturing experience in Electronic Assemblies, Modules/CCAs/PWBs

• Experience managing product line configuration changes, implementation l, and effectively.

• Ability to establish, access and improve end to end Manufacturing processes – Quality/Cost/Schedule
• Part Acquisition, Operations, Test and Delivery
• Establish & Monitor Key Metrics for the process such as FPY, Effective Yield, Defect count.
• Timely disposition of yield falls out from tests debug and repair
• Conformal Coat and other key processes
• Strong working experience with ERP/MRP Systems
• Ability to establish line of business for modules and Systems.
• Strong RCCA (Root Cause and Corrective Action) or Six Sigma background
• Ability to implement and execute tactical goals/objectives/tasks that align to PDs Strategic Objectives
• Ability and track record of delivering to their customers both Internal and External
• Full lifecycle cost awareness

Responsibilities

• Hands on leader who drives day to day manufacturing activities.
• Communicate with other departments, such as the financial department to establish budgets, HR department to hire new workers, or the logistics department to ensure the delivery of products.
• Establish goals for production and coordinate a plan to meet those goals.
• Ensure production stays on schedule.
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