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Rantec Power Systems Inc. is hiring a Production Manager! Relocation is supported.

Come join our team!  Based in Los Osos, California, located along California's scenic Central Pacific coastline, Rantec offers many outstanding benefits, the following are a few: 

• Competitive wages
• Great benefits - i.e. Medical (PPO, HSA), Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts
• Vacation - 2 weeks to start, Holidays
• Tuition Assistance
• 401K with matching up to 6%,
• Peer-to-Peer recognition and Years of Service Awards.
• We have every other Friday off as we are on the 9/80 schedule
• Free catered lunch on the Friday/payday that we work

Rantec is headquartered in Los Osos, California is an upper-tier designer and manufacturer of power supplies for the military and aerospace markets. We are an engineering-based company, with expertise in all aspects of power supply design, manufacturing and test.

Position Summary:

The Production Manager will ensure that production produces product safely, on-time, efficiently and to a high level of quality; building capability and capacity across multiple products.  Production Manager will have supervisory responsibility of Sub Assembly, which will include a reporting structure of Supervisors and 15 personnel.  Tasks include; assembly training, employee growth, area/cell planning, capacity analysis, quality, efficiency, on-time delivery and budget performance.  Understand and manage the cells in accordance with Rantec’s business requirements.  Provide leadership, mentoring and develop personnel growth plans.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure status of production is known, communicated and monitored against schedule.  Production issues are properly identified and escalated to closure. Provide daily production status updates with recovery dates.  Provide Work Order starts, and completions with visibility and are measurable.
• Ensure Assemblers are trained to perform the work assigned, able to identify deficiencies, anticipate future needs and have a training plan in place.  Ensure training is up to date for all operators.
• Deploy trained and available assemblers to lines.
• Provide recognition of production employees’ contributions to continuous improvement.
• Ensure production has technical and organizational support in order to complete work orders.
• Identify Supervisors/Line Leads for every production line.
• Provide support resources (e.g. documents, work instructions, tools, engineering consulting, training) are available to the Supervisors/Line Leads to facilitate the completion of their work.
• Make certain production floor is clean, organized and compliant to regulatory standards.  Specified FOD & ESD protocols are established and are inherent in all production activities.  Safety procedures are in place and all personnel are trained.
• Provide good, constructive and timely feedback to Supervisors/Line Leads/Assemblers to improve skills and product output.
• Oversee Labor Time entry is properly and accurately recorded to support costing and payroll.
• Create and execute manufacturing training plans for assembler personnel.  Identify and train employees on needed skills which are impacting cost, quality, and delivery.  Create and update Rantec Training Courses for assemblers.  Proactively plan Rantec skilled training based on production group.
• Balance production cell sizes; and shift DL employees around based on the needs of production.
• Update and coordinate schedules for machines, chambers, or equipment which may have capacity constraints.  Give input into the manufacturing master scheduling process in terms of how production resources should be best used.
• Provide coordination of continuous improvement between production floor and manufacturing engineering.
• Support production when issues are discovered and define the problem enough to communicate to Operations team. 
• Provide leadership development of production supervisors and production assembler to ensure their continued growth is successful.
• Provide good, constructive, timely feedback to improve skills and product output to assemblers (in coordination with Supervisors).
• Support celebrating Rantec successes within the manufacturing groups.
• Identify opportunities for employee retention.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements/Experience

• BS degree in Industrial Technology or Business Operations or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of Supervision / Manufacturing experience
• Ability to demonstrate sound reasoning skills (critical thinking) in risk assessment.
• Strong leadership capability; experience in supervising production personnel.
• Strong working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing methods and SPC tools.
• Proficient in Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, and Access, and MRP/ERP systems.
• Ability to communicate well, both verbally and in writing, with all levels of employees as well as outside sources.
• Strong work ethic and organizational skills.

Salary Range: $79,000 - $103,000 Annually

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