Aerospace Operations Lead – Thread Rolling & Quality

AppleOne Employment Services; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AppleOne Employment Services in Pacoima, CA seeks an Aerospace Operations Manager to lead the thread rolling department, driving throughput, quality, and continuous improvement. You will oversee scheduling, staffing, tooling readiness, and cross-functional support to meet on-time delivery goals.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of aerospace manufacturing management, hands-on shop floor leadership, and experience with measuring tools and ERP systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of management experience, preferably in aerospace manufacturing.
• Experience with thread rolling, fasteners, or precision aerospace components.
• AS9100 quality systems knowledge preferred.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and cross-functional communication.
• Experience with tooling, dies, maintenance, and production equipment improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily operations for the thread rolling department, including employee relations, training, discipline, performance management, scheduling, and workflow priorities.
• Drive production performance by managing capacity, overtime, staffing, expedite jobs, work center schedules, and recovery plans for schedule delays.
• Maintain and improve QMS procedures, work instructions, forms, 6-S practices, department metrics, process audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support customer service, inside sales, estimating, planning, quote follow-up, technical questions, and customer communication related to thread rolling operations.
• Manage tooling and equipment readiness, including die inventory, die forecasting, new die purchases, repairs, maintenance logs, service recommendations, and equipment improvement needs.
• Troubleshoot shop floor, machine, process, quality, and paperwork issues while supporting root cause corrective action and nonconformance disposition.

Skills

Aerospace manufacturing

Operations management

Quality systems AS9100

MS Office / ERP systems

Leadership and team development

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

4-year degree preferred

Tools

MRP/ERP systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

AppleOne Employment Services in Pacoima, CA seeks an Aerospace Operations Manager to lead the thread rolling department, driving throughput, quality, and continuous improvement. You will oversee scheduling, staffing, tooling readiness, and cross-functional support to meet on-time delivery goals.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of aerospace manufacturing management, hands-on shop floor leadership, and experience with measuring tools and ERP systems.