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Area Manager AEG Mechanical Assembly

Varex Imaging


Job Location:

Salt Lake, UT - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 11 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 8 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

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Summary
The Area Manager is responsible for leading a manufacturing area or department within a defined business unit. This role operates at both a strategic and operational level owning performance across safety quality delivery cost and people.

The Area Manager leads supervisors and frontline teams drives continuous improvement ensures operational excellence and aligns area performance with company-wide objectives.

Job Description

Strategic Leadership & Performance

  • Own area-wide performance across key metrics (safety quality delivery cost and productivity)

  • Establish and execute goals aligned with business and operational objectives

  • Monitor KPIs and drive performance through data-driven decision-making

  • Lead capacity planning and resource alignment to meet changing demand

Operational Oversight

  • Ensure efficient and compliant operation of production processes

  • Oversee workforce planning labor utilization and material flow

  • Ensure equipment readiness capacity and risk mitigation planning

  • Drive problem-solving for operational challenges and escalations

Leadership & Talent Development

  • Lead coach and develop supervisors and frontline employees

  • Build team capability through training cross-training and succession planning

  • Establish clear expectations and accountability for performance and behaviors

  • Partner with HR on workforce planning engagement and employee relations

Lean Manufacturing & Continuous Improvement

  • Champion Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives

  • Lead or sponsor Kaizen events and process improvement projects

  • Identify waste constraints and inefficiencies to improve flow and productivity

  • Ensure improvements are sustained and standardized

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with engineering quality maintenance and other business units

  • Align production execution with customer demand and business priorities

  • Support new product introduction and process changes

Quality Safety & Compliance

  • Ensure adherence to safety standards regulatory requirements and company policies

  • Promote a culture of safety quality and operational discipline

  • Support audit readiness CAPA and compliance initiatives

Communication & Alignment

  • Present area performance risks and improvement plans to senior leadership

  • Conduct Gemba walks and maintain visibility into operations

  • Ensure alignment between strategic priorities and operational execution

Decision-Making Authority

  • Approves area-level staffing resource allocation and spending

  • Enforces policies and operational standards within the area

  • Makes strategic and operational decisions impacting area performance

Core Competencies

  • Leadership & people development

  • Strategic thinking with operational execution

  • Continuous improvement mindset

  • Data-driven decision making

  • Cross-functional collaboration

  • Change management

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience

  • 10years of operations or manufacturing leadership experience

  • Experience leading teams and driving operational performance

Area Overview

Leads mechanical assembly and lead operations for High CT (AEG) X-ray source product lines including LMB and MBX platforms. This area supports the production of low-volume high-mixhighly complexmedical imaging components requiring precision assembly advanced process control and strict adherence to regulatory requirements.

This operation is critical to delivering high-performance CT products to global OEM partners and involves complex integration specialized materials (including lead handling) and close alignment with engineering and quality organizations.

Area Specific Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end performance of AEG mechanical assembly and lead operations including safety quality delivery and productivity within a 24/7 production environment

  • Drive execution against key metrics such as on-time delivery (OTD) yield throughput and cost performance

  • Lead assembly of complex high-performance CT components ensuring:

  • Precision build execution

  • Adherence to standardized work and process controls

  • Product integrity in high-reliability applications

  • Oversee lead (Pb) handling and assembly processes ensuring safe handling compliance and process discipline

  • Partner with supply chain planning and upstream production teams to ensure material availability and schedule alignment while mitigating real-time disruptions

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and quality teams to:

  • Resolve complex product and process issues

  • Reduce defects warranty exposure and COPQ

  • Improve manufacturability and assembly robustness

  • Lead new product introduction (NPI) efforts for High CT platforms ensuring smooth transition from development to stable production

  • Champion Lean Manufacturing within a complex assembly environment with focus on:

  • Process standardization and documentation

  • Line balance and workflow optimization

  • Reduction of rework cycle time and inefficiencies

  • Serve as project leader for assembly improvements tooling enhancements and capital investments including business case development for equipment upgrades

  • Own planning for assembly capacity labor strategy and specialized tooling/equipment ensuring readiness to meet demand

  • Ensure compliance with QMS GMP CAPA and safety requirements including those specific to material handling and regulated medical device manufacturing

  • Lead adoption and effectiveness of digital manufacturing systems (MES SAP traceability systems) to improve process control and data visibility

Technical/Functional Requirements

  • Strong experience in precision mechanical assembly of complex electro-mechanical systems ideally within CT or high-performance imaging products

  • Experience in high-mix low-volume manufacturing environments with high product variability

  • Demonstrated experience with:

  • Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement in assembly operations

  • Root cause analysis and corrective action (RCA/CAPA)

  • Process standardization documentation and training development

  • Production systems (MES SAP or equivalent)

  • Experience supporting NPI and scaling of technically complex products into production

  • Familiarity with regulated manufacturing environments (GMP QMS) including quality and compliance requirements

  • Preferred familiarity with:

  • High voltage / high vacuum systems

  • Controlled material handling(e.g. lead or regulated substances)

Unique Challenges of the Role

  • Managinghighly complexCT product builds requiring precision repeatability and strict quality adherence

  • Overseeing operations that include specialized material handling (lead processes) with safety and compliance implications

  • Balancing production execution with frequent engineering updates and evolving product designs

  • Maintaining stable output in a high variability high-requirement production environment

  • Coordinating across multiple technical disciplines to resolve issues andmaintainflow

Key Performance Objectives

  • Deliver consistent OTD first-pass yield and productivity performance for High CT products

  • Reduce assembly defects rework and cost of poor quality (COPQ)

  • Improve process efficiency through standardization line balance and workflow optimization

  • Successfully execute assembly-related improvement and capital projects

  • Strengthen workforce capability through structured training and skills development

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting CT or high-performance medical imaging product lines

  • Background in regulated manufacturing environments (medical device preferred)

  • Lean / Six Sigma certification withdemonstratedsuccess in complex assembly environments

Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.

  • Sedentarytoheavywork that will occasionally 1-33% require employeetolift/move upto40lbs.
  • Lifting carrying pushing pulling or moving heavy equipment and/or supplies occasionally 1-33%.
  • Reaching above and below the shoulder occasionally 1-33%.
  • Above-average agility and dexterity with the abilitytohold grasp and manipulate small parts and use hand and powertools occasionally 1-33%.
  • Wear personal protective equipment (PPE) and handle physical exertion such as long periods of standing walking bending crouching stretching reaching repetitive motion or similar activities.
  • Work environments includes: exposuretochemicals electrical current proximitytomoving mechanical parts repetitive hand motion open flame working from heights cold environment hot environment uneven surface fumes and office environments.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

N/A

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Benefits and Perks


Varex Imaging provides competitive pay and benefits to support the financial physical and emotional well-being of the people who make our company successful.

  • Medical Insurance

  • Dental/Vision

  • 10 Paid Holidays

  • PTO

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  • 401K match

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Short & Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance

  • Competitive Pay

  • Flexible Schedules

  • Variety of Shift Options

  • Free Safety Shoes

  • Friendly Work Environment

  • On-site Cafeteria Company Nurse Credit Union and Gym

  • Free Coffee and Soda

  • Tuition Reimbursement

  • Employee Referral Program

  • Career Advancement Opportunities

  • Employee Discounts

  • EV Charging Stations

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex color religion sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.


Required Experience:

Manager


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Varex Imaging Corporation is the world’s largest independent supplier and manufacturer of X-ray imaging components and image processing solutions.

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