Production Line Manager

Position Type: Contract Duration 9 Months

Job Title: Production Line Manager Location: Van Nuys, CA Zip Code: 91406 Duration: 9 Months Pay Rate: $30 - $40/hr Keywords: VanNuys, jobs, Manager, jobs

Job Description

SUMMARY Reporting directly to the site Production Manager, you will be responsible for all activities of one or more repair production lines. You will manage a repair production team coordinated by a TechnicianLeader for each line.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

• Ensuring that the customers needs are met while respecting safety, quality, costs, and delivery deadlines.
• Ensuring the required transformations and change management.
• Providing a vision and uniting the teams around the entitys challenges.
• Organizing your teams in a way that promotes multidisciplinary contributions, autonomy, accountability, and cross-functionality with the aim of being agile and adaptable to operational contingencies and customer needs.
• Ensuring that competencies and resources are maintained at the highest level within the expanded scope.
• Ensuring the accessibility and quality of data in the sector.
• Guaranteeing the use of and compliance with the referential.
• Ensuring compliance of all production processes and the correct application of all directives, Part 145 regulations, HSE, etc.

Managerial Focus

• Organizing the activity
• Maintaining a working environment that complies with HSE requirements and ensuring the safety of the teams working under your responsibility
• Implementing the guidelines and objectives of the Site Manager for your scope of responsibility into SQCDP (Safety - Quality - Cost - Delivery - People) operational objectives in line with other Production Line Managers.

Operational Focus

• Managing performance
• Monitoring the performance indicators of the repair production lines in relation to the monthly targets and developing continuous improvement plans, improvement project 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, etc.
• Proposing and implementing a plan for the continuous improvement of repair production lines on production means and processes to contribute to the sustainable improvement of performance.
• Ensuring that repair deadlines are met deadlines of Work Orders within your scope.
• Validating schedules with the scheduler for repair production.
• Following schedules and responding to issues, resources, quality, supply chain, maintenance, etc.
• Involving the TechniciansLeader in managing performance and the teams coordination.
• Taking part in the daily management routines of each line to ensure that they are followed and that standard are respected.
• Supporting your staff in the application of management standards to help them develop their skills.
• Adapting the management system constantly, in particular the relevance of KPIs (Performance Indicators) based on changes in the results and context.
• Ensuring the operational cohesion of the lines with the sites other departments, HSE, Methods, Quality, Supply Chain, etc., and promoting cross-functionality.
• Optimizing set-ups within the lines in keeping with the sites industrial strategy.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Knowledge and Skills:
• Aviation/Aerospace Component Repair Knowledge, including CMM, Quality systems, and manuals
• Computer Proficiency, Microsoft Suite
• Performance management, quality, costs, deadlines
• Production management, repair management
• Competencies:
• Technical Knowledge
• Risk Management
• Continuous improvement
• Lean
• HSE requirements
• Skills Development
• Organizational Skills
• Leadership Capabilities
• Interpersonal Skills
• Change Management
• Process Oriented
• Communications Proficiency
• Time Priority Management
• Problem Solving
• Analysis
• Discretion
• Education and/or Experience:
• Bachelors degree (5 years) - General or Mechanical (3 to 5 years) successful experience in manufacturing, installation, or repairs would be a considerable asset for this position. Experience in team management would be a plus.
• Profile:
• Proven initial experience in a similar field and immediately operational
• Strong production/repair management and performance management skills
• Communication Skills:
• Good oral and written communication skills essential for interaction with both internal and external customers
• Physical Demands:
• The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, and kneeling. The employee must sometimes lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Belcan is an equal opportunity employer.