Operations Manager

Ducommun Incorporated; Appleton, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ducommun Incorporated in Appleton, WI is seeking an Operations Manager to lead production operations, engineering, planning, and maintenance to meet budgets and delivery targets. You will drive continuous improvement, coordinate scheduling, and oversee inventory and costs to ensure quality and on-time performance.

This role requires building a high-performance team, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA), and delivering on KPIs such as on-time delivery, quality, and cost control.

Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of manufacturing operations and scheduling.
• Familiarity with SPC, TQM, Lean manufacturing, and ISO standards.
• Demonstrated project management including planning and budgeting.
• Strong communication with customers.
• Negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Strategic thinking to align business needs with operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coordination, and direction for production operations, engineering, planning, and facility maintenance to meet budget
• Facilitate continuous improvement and lean cycle-time reduction concepts and plans
• Create shipment forecast and oversee scheduling
• Oversee the management of inventory levels, manufacturing costs, and on-time delivery to customers
• Promote the concept of individual responsibility for product quality
• Provide leadership and management for facility maintenance for safety and regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA, etc.)
• Prepare annual departmental budget, including sales bookings, shipments, and responsible for performance to plan
• Manage performance to key performance indicator goals (for example, on-time delivery, quality, safety, cycle time, overhead efficiency, and productivity per employee)
• Complete weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports to management
• Manage the expansion of facilities and the acquisition and installation of capital equipment
• Provide leadership for and development of direct reports – establishing priorities, accountabilities, and allocating resources; guiding achievement of performance measures
• Ownership for plant layout for all production areas
• Participate in recruiting, selection and development of all operations personnel through maintaining discipline and personnel relations, interviewing screened applicants
• Provide input for hiring,terminations, transfers, salary adjustments, and promotions

Skills

Manufacturing operations

SPC & Lean Manufacturing

ISO standards familiarity

Project management

Customer communication

Negotiation & conflict management

MS Office proficiency

Effective written & verbal skills

Detail oriented

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Manufacturing Engineering, Business Administration or relevant discipline

Job description

Operations Manager

Provide leadership, supervisor, coordination,and direction for operations to ensure conformance to quality standards,meeting delivery targets, and financial goals.

Who are we?

Founded in 1849, Ducommun is the oldest company in California. Starting as a hardware supply store during the California Gold Rush and eventually assisted in the birth of the aerospace industry in Southern California by providing aircraft aluminum to early aerospace pioneers like Lindbergh, Douglas and Lockheed.

Today Ducommun is a global provider of innovative manufacturing solutions for customers in the aerospace, defense and industrial markets. We specialize in electronic and structural systems, producing complex products and components for commercial aircraft platforms, mission-critical military and space programs, and sophisticated industrial applications.

Our Facility in Appleton, WI manufactures state-of-the-art circuit boards for Aerospace and Defense as well as Industrial and Medical Industries.

Job Summary

• Provide leadership, coordination, and direction for all production operations, engineering, planning, and facility maintenance to meet budget


• Facilitate the establishment and implementation of continuous improvement, lean manufacturing cycle-time reduction concepts, and plans


• Create shipment forecast and oversee scheduling


• Oversee the management of inventory levels, manufacturing costs, and on-time delivery to customers


• Promote the concept of individual responsibility for product quality


• Provide leadership and management for facility maintenance for safety and regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA, etc.)


• Prepare annual departmental budget, including sales bookings, shipments, and responsible for performance to plan


• Manage performance to key performance indicator goals (for example, on-time delivery, quality, safety, cycle time, overhead efficiency, and productivity per employee)


• Complete weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports to management


• Manage the expansion of facilities and the acquisition and installation of capital equipment


• Provide leadership for and development of direct reports – establishing priorities, accountabilities, and allocating resources; guiding achievement of performance measures


• Ownership for plant layout for all production areas


• Participate in recruiting, selection and development of all operations personnel through maintaining discipline and personnel relations, interviewing screened applicants


• Provide input for hiring,terminations, transfers, salary adjustments, and promotions

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Working knowledge of manufacturing operations, scheduling, staffing, safety, and maintenance.


• Working knowledge of SPC, TQM. Lean Manufacturing, and ISO standards; Mil Specs required at CAS facilities.


• Demonstrated project management experience—planning, budget, allocation of resources.


• Demonstrated ability to communicate with customers


• Negotiation and conflict management skills together with demonstrated experience troubleshooting and problem-solving


• Intermediate level of computer skills in email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access


• Ability to write and speak effectively with employees at all levels within the organization


• Detail oriented with attention to accuracy


• Excellent written and verbal skills to interact with people at all levels and functions inside and outside Ducommun


• Ability to quickly and accurately assess and address complex problems using creative approaches


• Demonstrated strategic thinkingskills that portray the ability to conceptualize business requirements in aproactive manner

Required Experience and Education

• Bachelors degree in Electrical/Manufacturing Engineering, Business Administration or relevant discipline


• Minimum 7-10 years experienceshowing progression in production management, with supervisory experience

Equal Opportunity EmployerVeterans/Disabled

2222 East Pensar Drive
Appleton, Wisconsin, 54911
United States