Quality Manager

Job Description

Job DescriptionOperations ManagerLocation: San Fernando Valley, CA
Employment Type: Full-Time | On-Site
Salary: $100,000–$135,000 DOE
We are seeking an experienced Operations Manager to lead manufacturing operations within a regulated aerospace manufacturing environment. This hands-on leadership role is responsible for production performance, staffing, scheduling, quality compliance, delivery, cost control, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have experience managing technical manufacturing teams in a high-mix production environment and working within strict aerospace quality and customer requirements.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily manufacturing operations and production personnel.
• Manage production schedules, capacity, WIP, labor utilization, and on-time delivery.
• Identify production bottlenecks and implement recovery plans.
• Develop and coach supervisors and production teams.
• Monitor productivity, overtime, scrap, rework, and manufacturing costs.
• Partner with Quality and Engineering to maintain aerospace process and quality requirements.
• Support Nadcap and AS9100 compliance and audit activities.
• Drive Lean manufacturing, 5S, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure accurate ERP/MRP production and labor reporting.
• Maintain strong safety practices within a chemical-processing manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of manufacturing/operations leadership experience.
• Aerospace, defense, precision manufacturing, or other regulated manufacturing experience.
• Experience with special manufacturing processes, surface treatment, chemical processing, plating, or related operations is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of Nadcap and/or AS9100 environments preferred.
• Strong production planning, scheduling, capacity, WIP, labor-utilization, and on-time-delivery experience.
• Lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement experience.

Highly Preferred

• Aerospace plating or metal-finishing experience.
• Hard chrome plating experience.
• Nadcap Chemical Processing experience.
• AS9100 experience.
• High-mix, low-volume manufacturing experience.