Production Manager, Las Vegas Manufacturing

Sitreps • Las Vegas, NV

7d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a confidential search for a Production Manager at a founder-led defense technology company that builds deployable position, navigation, and timing (PNT) hardware for the U.S. Army. The company is transitioning three product lines from prototype to production in its own Las Vegas facility. This role is for someone who wants to build a production operation from the ground up, not manage an established one. The work involves real hardware and firm fielding timelines.

Requirements

• Substantial progressive experience managing electronics or precision hardware production, with direct supervisory responsibility for a production workforce.
• 20 or more years of experience in contract labor category for this position.
• Demonstrated experience hiring and training a production team from a standing start, or materially scaling one.
• Command of production scheduling and work order management systems (ERP and MES), labor planning, and daily production metrics.
• Quality management fluency, covering inspection regimes, nonconformance and material review board processes, and corrective action.
• Direct experience taking a facility from outfitting to certified production operations.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Defense or aerospace production management under AS9100.
• Low-rate initial production (LRIP) experience, with comfort around the volumes, variability, and change traffic of an immature line.
• Prior military maintenance or production leadership.
• Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma implementation on a live floor.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage a production management framework, including production scheduling, work order management, labor assignment, shift planning, daily production reporting, and performance metrics against Year 1 LRIP targets for three product lines.
• Build, onboard, and train the production technician team, ensuring all technicians are qualified against documented assembly procedures before working on live production lots.
• Collaborate with the Manufacturing Engineer and QA technicians to define, implement, and consistently enforce inspection points, acceptance criteria, and nonconformance management.
• Manage the sequencing of tooling delivery, workstation installation, utility connections, and safety compliance to ensure the facility is operational and certified for LRIP production on schedule.
• Formulate and enforce work standards, assign schedules, review work discrepancies, supervise production personnel, and communicate company policies and goals to the production floor.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior