Operations Manager

Ducommun, Inc.; Carson (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Ducommun, Inc. is seeking an Operations Manager to lead production operations, engineering, planning, and facilities maintenance while ensuring budget, schedule, and quality targets are met.

The role drives lean initiatives, cost control, and on-time delivery in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. The position requires a strong background in manufacturing with 7–10 years of progression, plus excellent communication and leadership skills to guide cross-functional teams and improve performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required and 7–10 years of production management experience.
• Strong leadership, budgeting, and scheduling skills.
• Experience with SPC, TQM, Lean, ISO standards.
• Ability to communicate with customers and manage cross-functional teams.
• Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coordination, and direction for all production operations, engineering, planning, and facility maintenance to meet budget.
• Facilitate continuous improvement, lean cycle-time reduction concepts and plans.
• Create shipment forecast and oversee scheduling.
• Oversee inventory levels, manufacturing costs, and on-time delivery to customers.
• Promote ownership for product quality across teams.
• Lead facility maintenance for safety and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Manufacturing operations

Schedule planning

Lean manufacturing / ISO

Project management

Customer communication

Negotiation / conflict resolution

MS Office

Team leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Manufacturing Engineering or related

Tools

MS Office suite

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 Performance Center in Carson, CA is the Engineered Products Group site for our Human Machine Interface, Motion Control Device, and Radio Frequency (RF) product lines.

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
• Maintain necessary records
• Responsible for the proper handling and management of hazardous waste generated in their work area.

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
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• Ability to quickly and accurately assess and address complex problems using creative approaches
  
• Demonstrated strategic thinking skills that portray the ability to conceptualize business requirements in a proactive manner

Required Experience and Education

• Bachelors degree in Electrical/Manufacturing Engineering, Business Administration or relevant discipline
  
• Minimum 7-10 years experience showing progression in production management, with supervisory experience

Base Compensation: USD 145,000.00 - 165,000.00
Paid Salaried

Equal Opportunity Employer
Veterans/Disabled

23301 S. Wilmington Ave
Carson, California, 90745
United States