Production Manager- PCBA Manufacturing

Pro-Active Engineering

Job Location:

Sun Prairie, MT - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly organized and results-driven Production Manager to oversee and optimize our PCBA manufacturing operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electronics manufacturing team leadership and continuous improvement. This role is critical in ensuring that production goals are met with high levels of safety quality on-time delivery and efficiency in a fast-paced contract manufacturing environment.

Essential Functions

Production Oversight: Manage day-to-day operations of the PCBA production floor including SMT through-hole and final assembly processes.
Team Leadership: Supervise and mentor production area managers leads and operators. Foster a culture of ownership accountability safety and continuous improvement.
Deliver on Key Outcomes: our key production outcomes are SQDC and the production manager aligns and focuses the team on improvement across all of these areas. The Production Manager will own KPIs across SQDC and take actions to ensure that we are achieving our goals.
Training and Development: Develops and executes plans to attract talented front-line associates and successfully on-board and train those employees. Provides opportunities for continued skill building cross-training and advancement into Leads and Area Manager roles.
Planning & Execution: Coordinate with planning and procurement teams to ensure production schedules align with customer delivery requirements. Manage overall capacity so that it meets or exceeds demand by adjusting staffing hours worked and other factors so that we can accommodate growth at high levels of service.
Quality Assurance: Work closely with the Quality team to ensure compliance with IPC standards ISO certifications and customer-specific requirements.
Process Improvement: Implement lean manufacturing and other continuous improvement methodologies to improve efficiency reduce waste and enhance product quality.
Equipment & Maintenance: Ensure all production equipment is properly maintained and calibrated. Coordinate with maintenance and engineering teams for upgrades and repairs.
Customer Interaction: Support customer audits visits and technical discussions as needed.

Competencies

Results Driven
Bias for Action/Initiative
Customer Focus
Performance Management
Communication and Listening Proficiency
Organizational Skills
Technical Capacity
Collaboration
Attention to Detail

Supervisory Responsibility

This position oversees various positions including Production including Area Managers Leads and operators and is responsible for the performance management of these employees.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit use hands reach with hands and arms use fine hand motor skills/dexterity use repetitive motions and lift and/or move up to 15 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Required Education and Experience

5 years of experience in electronics or PCBA manufacturing with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
Strong knowledge of SMT reflow through hole hand wave soldering AOI/X-ray inspection and box build processes.
Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems and production scheduling tools.
Excellent communication organizational and problem-solving skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and production analytics tools.

Preferred Education and Experience

Experience in a contract manufacturing environment.
Lean Six Sigma certification.
IPC-A-610 certification is a plus.
ISO-9001 certification/knowledge is a plus.

Compensation and Benefits:

Pro-Active Engineering offers a competitive wage based on experience and a generous benefits package to include health dental vision life insurance short and long-term disability retirement plan with a company match FSA paid vacation sick days holidays and Gain Sharing bonuses.

Pro-Active Engineering is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other category protected by law.

Required Experience:

Manager

We are seeking a highly organized and results-driven Production Manager to oversee and optimize our PCBA manufacturing operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electronics manufacturing team leadership and continuous improvement. This role is critical in ensuring that product...