MLI Production Lead — Cleanroom & Scheduling Expert

Aerothreads, Inc.; Riverdale Park (MD); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 125 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Aerothreads is seeking an MLI Production Supervisor to lead the daily operation of our Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) production and cleanroom activities. This role supervises production technicians, assigns and prioritizes work, and ensures safety, quality, and on-time delivery for aerospace projects.

You will collaborate with Operations, Production Planning, Program Management, Design, Quality, and HR to resolve issues, maintain a trained workforce, and support fabrication, testing, delivery,

Qualifications

• Lead production team in MLI/aero environment; ensure safety and quality.
• Experience supervising technicians and scheduling.
• Knowledge of cleanroom requirements, ESD/FOD.
• Ability to travel for installations.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsabilités

• Supervise and develop shopfloor technicians, coordinate daily activities, and maintain balanced workloads.
• Assign and prioritize work based on production schedules, employee capabilities, program requirements, and available capacity.
• Lead daily shopfloor stand-up meetings and communicate production priorities, schedule changes, staffing needs, and constraints.
• Monitor employee attendance, punctuality, conduct, productivity, and compliance with workplace expectations.
• Address routine employee concerns and partner with Operations and Human Resources on performance and conduct matters.
• Conduct annual performance reviews and participate in employee goal setting, compensation recommendations, development planning, and succession planning.
• Support recruiting, interviewing, selection, onboarding, and training of production employees.
• Develop and maintain employee training and cross-training plans to ensure adequate coverage and reduce single points of failure.
• Review and approve employee timecards for completeness, accuracy, and timely submission.
• Develop, execute, and maintain production schedules in coordination with Production Planning, Programs, Design, and Quality.
• Monitor production progress and proactively communicate risks, delays, resource constraints, and recovery plans.
• Monitor direct labor utilization and support accurate charging of time to appropriate projects and indirect activities.
• Monitor and report production performance indicators, including throughput, yield, rework, labor utilization, quality trends, and schedule adherence.
• Coordinate production priorities, staffing, workflow, and manufacturing capacity to support customer and program requirements.
• Oversee Class 8 cleanroom operations and enforce contamination-control requirements, including ESD, FOD, PPE, housekeeping, and gowning protocols.
• Ensure technicians follow approved drawings, work instructions, travelers, build documentation, and quality requirements.
• Support the controlled handoff of drawings, work instructions, materials, and production documentation from Design and Production Planning.
• Maintain configuration control of work instructions, build records, engineering changes, and production documentation.
• Ensure material identification and traceability are maintained for flight builds and support inventory control of production materials.
• Identify and document nonconformances and support material review board dispositions, root-cause investigations, and corrective-action activities.
• Ensure required safety, technical, quality, and compliance training is completed and properly documented.
• Recommend and support updates to work instructions, safety documentation, production processes, and operating procedures.
• Operate or oversee vacuum bakeout chambers, contamination checks, and required bakeout or test reporting.
• Ensure production equipment, chamber hardware, tooling, and sensitive components, including TQCM crystals, are properly operated, maintained, stored, and protected.
• Maintain equipment calibration, preventive-maintenance, and service records.
• Coordinate routine production-facility needs, including GN2 supply, compressed-air systems, bag-sealing equipment, tools, and production workspaces.
• Coordinate production travel requirements, maintain project travel kits, arrange necessary shipments, and support project-delivery logistics.
• Support customer source inspections, quality audits, internal audits, and facility walkthroughs.
• Foster a professional, respectful, collaborative, and accountable work environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Connaissances

Leadership

Production scheduling

Communication

Problem solving

Team development

Formation

Associate degree or technical certification

Military technical training

Outils

Microsoft Project

Description du poste

Aerothreads is seeking an MLI Production Supervisor to lead the daily operation of our Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) production and cleanroom activities. This role supervises production technicians, assigns and prioritizes work, and ensures safety, quality, and on-time delivery for aerospace projects.

You will collaborate with Operations, Production Planning, Program Management, Design, Quality, and HR to resolve issues, maintain a trained workforce, and support fabrication, testing, delivery,