Production Leader / Senior Production Manager

The role

You will manage the satellite manufacturing production team and day-to-day manufacturing operations. This role involves leading production planning, shop floor leadership, production technicians, and equipment and facilities maintenance.

What you will do

• Manage the production team responsible for safe, high quality, on-time, scaled production of the Xona satellite.
• Manage overall production processes and activities including work order planning, shift staffing, and KPI tracking.
• Lead, coach and develop a production team while maintaining safety and performance standards.
• Support the maturation and continuous improvement of the production system.
• Achieve the master production schedule and translate it into daily and weekly work order releases.
• Optimize workforce efficiency, equipment capacity, and build quality.
• Oversee the equipment maintenance and facilities function.
• Support the development and management of the production budget.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in a supervisor or manager role in a scaled, production facility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with complex, highly engineered products, with an emphasis on assembly, integration and testing at production build rates of >2/week.
• Experience in a Space industry manufacturing business, or A&D manufacturing business.
• Experience with manufacturing products that require extensive hardware and software assembly, integration and testing.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing and TPM fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of six sigma.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MES/QA digital systems.

Before you apply

• For U.S. Roles: applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
• For U.K. Roles: requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks, and successful candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• For Canada Roles: Successful candidates must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR

About the company

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar, Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system.