Start Date: 18-03-2026
Date Added: 18-03-2026
Status: Accepting Candidates
Industry: Aerospace
Categories: AE39 – Project/Program Management

Description:Production Line Manager 

Location: Van Nuys, CA    
Term: Contract Assignment – 9 months (extendable)
Shift: Monday to Friday – start time 6 am
Pay Rate: $30 – $40 per hour (based on experience)  

Job Summary: 
•    Reporting directly to the site Production Manager
•    Responsible for all activities of one or more repair production lines
•    Manage a repair production team coordinated by a Technician/Leader for each line

Responsibilities: 
This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.

•    Ensuring that the customer’s needs are met while respecting safety, quality, costs, and delivery deadlines
•    Ensuring the required transformations and change management
•    Providing a vision and uniting the teams around the entity’s challenges
•    Organizing your teams in a way that promotes multidisciplinary contributions, autonomy, accountability, and cross-functionality with the aim of being agile and adaptable to operational contingencies and customer needs
•    Ensuring that competencies and resources are maintained at the highest level within the expanded scope
•    Ensuring the accessibility and quality of data in the sector
•    Guaranteeing the use of and compliance with the referential
•    Ensuring compliance of all production, processes and the correct application of all directives (Part 145 regulations, HSE, etc.).

Managerial Focus / Organizing the activity:
•    Maintaining a working environment that complies with HSE requirements and ensuring the safety of the teams working under your responsibility
•    Implementing the guidelines and objectives of the Site Manager for your scope of responsibility into SQCDP (Safety – Quality – Cost – Delivery – People) operational objectives in line with other Production Line Managers
•    Ensuring that products are repaired in terms of quality and quantity to meet customer order requirements within the set deadlines and costs
•    Managing and planning the resources of the repair production lines around a workload / capacity tool in terms of repair production resources and staff (quantities and competencies). Anticipating the needs related to the ramp-up of the repair production tool
•    Identifying training needs, defining training initiatives to ensure the development of the team, and contributing to employee career management
•    Managing the skills and training of the teams to guarantee the quality of operations. Implementing effective communication within the team/repair production lines by ensuring communication routines to maintain a good social climate
•    Promoting the functioning of the teams in line with the leadership model principles

Responsible for ensuring that employees comply with all Policies and Procedures
Operational Focus / Managing performance:

•    Monitoring the performance indicators of the repair production lines in relation to the monthly targets and developing continuous improvement plans (improvement project): 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, etc.
•    Proposing and implementing a plan for the continuous improvement of repair production lines: on production means and processes to contribute to the sustainable improvement of performance

Ensuring that repair deadlines are met (deadlines of Work Orders within your scope, SPT):
•    Validating schedules with the scheduler for repair production
•    Following schedules and responding to issues (resources, quality, supply chain, maintenance, etc.)
•    Involving the Technicians/Leader in managing performance and the teams coordination
•    Taking part in the daily management routines of each line to ensure that they are followed and that standard are respected. Supporting your staff in the application of management standards to help them develop their skills
•    Adapting the management system constantly, in particular the relevance of KPIs (Performance Indicators) based on changes in the results and context
•    Ensuring the operational cohesion of the lines with the site’s other departments (HSE, Methods, Quality, Supply Chain, etc.) and promoting cross-functionality
•    Optimizing set-ups within the lines in keeping with the site’s industrial strategy

Qualifications:

a) Knowledge and Skills
•    Aviation/Aerospace Component Repair Knowledge including CMM, Quality systems and manuals
•    Computer Proficiency (Microsoft Suite)
•    Performance management (quality, costs, deadlines)
•    Production management/repair management

b) Competencies
•    Technical Knowledge
•    Risk Management
•    Continuous improvement/Lean
•    HSE requirements
•    Skills Development
•    Organizational Skills
•    Leadership Capabilities
•    Interpersonal Skills
•    Change Management
•    Process Oriented
•    Communications Proficiency
•    Time/Priority Management
•    Problem Solving/Analysis
•    Discretion

c) Education and/or Experience
•    Bachelor’s degree + 5 years / Engineering degree – General or Mechanical
•    3 to 5 years’ successful experience in manufacturing, installation, or repairs would be a considerable asset for this position
•    Experience in team management would be a plus
•    Strong production/repair management and performance management skills
•    Profile with proven initial experience in a similar field and immediately operational

d) Communication Skills
•    Good oral and written communication skills essential for interaction with both internal and external customers

To apply please email your resume to Cindy at: cwhitaker@cantech.agency

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