Production Manager

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Production Manager

Join our team at the Alicat Scientific headquarters in Tucson, Arizona!

The role

Alicat Scientific designs and manufactures custom, precision gas flow instruments powering aerospace, semiconductor, fuel cell, and life sciences innovations. Our customers are doing cool stuff, and they need our instruments on time to do it. As our senior operations leader on the floor, you will own daily output, shape team culture, and build the team that drives our growth.

We value curiosity over credentials, impact over titles, and creativity over convention.

What you'll own

• On-time shipment, your first priority, plus first-pass yield, throughput, and OLE.
• Six production supervisors across day and night shifts: set expectations, hold them accountable, and coach them.
• Champion the Alicat culture of curiosity, problem solving and having fun!
• Identify and address talent gaps through effective hiring, onboarding, and training.
• Co-ordinate cross-training and personal development, with support from the training team.
• Quality and safety: built to spec, SOPs followed, CAPAs closed on time.
• Continuous improvement, and partnership with Engineering, Quality, and Applications.

What you bring

• 5+ years in complex, regulated manufacturing (electronics, medical device, aerospace, etc.).
• 3+ years leading supervisors or front-line production teams.
• A record of developing people through coaching and structured systems.
• History of delivering tangible results and working knowledge of lean.
• Nice to have: a bachelor's degree, high-mix low-volume, multi-shift, ISO 9001 experience.

Why Alicat

Every instrument we build is custom-made for the end user, and our employees are the drivers of our growth. We are a fast-growing multinational organization with career development opportunities while being firmly rooted in the local community.

Alicat Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Position: Production Manager Location: In person only - Tucson, Arizona 85743 Report to: Director of Manufacturing Position type: Full-time Salary: $75,000 - $100,000, depending on experience

About Alicat Scientific

Alicat Scientific, Inc. has been manufacturing and servicing high‐quality mass flow and pressure devices since 1991, growing every year for the past 25 years. Each instrument is custom‐made for the end user. Our product is applicable in unlimited markets. From healthcare to aerospace, we design, test, build and apply our products to almost every niche. We believe our employees are the drivers of our growth and the reason we keep improving year after year. Our employees enjoy:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance plans
• 401k with up to 5% match and vesting schedule
• Tuition reimbursement
• Earned PTO
• Paid holidays
• Parental leave