Night Shift Production Lead – Lean, Quality & Safety

Booster; Hayward (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydio in the United States is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead daily manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets are met. You will oversee staffing, output, material readiness, training, and adherence to processes across multiple teams on the production floor.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong communication, and the ability to use data to drive improvements.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, production, operations, or a related environment.
• Experience leading or supervising production employees.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production flow, and shop-floor execution.
• Experience managing staffing, production priorities, and changing operational requirements.
• Experience using manufacturing KPIs such as output, yield, scrap, cycle time, downtime, and labor efficiency.
• Strong leadership, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to make timely decisions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Comfortable using computers and digital manufacturing systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily manufacturing operations for assigned production areas, lines, or programs.
• Execute production plans while maintaining expectations for safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Establish daily targets, priorities, staffing plans, and labor allocation.
• Monitor production performance and quickly elevate material, quality, equipment, process, or staffing constraints.
• Develop recovery plans when production falls behind schedule.
• Maintain strong floor leadership and standards for safety, organization, cleanliness, and 5S.
• Directly supervise production leads, technicians, assemblers, and operators.
• Manage daily staffing, attendance, overtime, training, and operator qualification.
• Set clear expectations and provide regular coaching and actionable performance feedback.
• Address productivity, quality, attendance, and performance concerns consistently and promptly.
• Support onboarding and develop production leads and high-performing team members for increased responsibility.
• Foster a culture of accountability, urgency, teamwork, respect, and continuous improvement.
• Track key manufacturing metrics including output, build plan attainment, FPY, yield, scrap/rework, cycle time, labor efficiency, downtime, attendance, and training compliance.
• Review performance throughout the shift and take corrective action when results fall below expectations.
• Ensure teams follow approved work instructions, standard work, and quality requirements.
• Partner with Quality and Manufacturing Engineering to investigate defects, process deviations, and recurring issues.
• Support root-caused analysis, containment, and corrective actions to reduce manufacturing losses.
• Ensure materials, tooling, equipment, documentation, staffing, and training are ready to support production.
• Partner with Planning, Supply Chain, and Materials teams to resolve shortages and production constraints.
• Serve as the primary Production representative for assigned manufacturing areas.
• Communicate production status, risks, staffing constraints, material shortages, and equipment concerns to leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Support NPI and pilot builds as new products and processes transition into sustained production.
• Maintain effective communication and handoffs between shifts and production areas.
• Identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, production flow, and cost.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering on line balancing, standard work, workstation optimization, and process improvements.
• Support Lean Manufacturing, 5S, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Use production data and operator feedback to identify root causes and drive sustainable improvements.
• Help standardize successful processes and best practices across production areas.

Skills

Leadership

Staffing

Manufacturing

KPIs

Safety

Data analysis

Problem solving

Tools

NetSuite

Arena

Slack

MES platforms

Job description

Skydio in the United States is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead daily manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets are met. You will oversee staffing, output, material readiness, training, and adherence to processes across multiple teams on the production floor.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong communication, and the ability to use data to drive improvements.