Production Manager

Position Summary

The Production Manager has direct accountability for daily and weekly production functions. This role acts as a liaison between direct employees and the Operations Manager and is primarily responsible for ensuring the execution of short-term team objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to ensure the team remains aligned with established short-term goals and objectives and meets daily, weekly, and monthly production targets.

• Ensure employees adhere to all site health and safety policies and procedures. Support and provide resources for health and safety activities, including meetings, investigations, and audits.

• Ensure direct staff and team leads comply with all applicable regulations, standards, and laws, including Transport Canada requirements.

• Ensure employees complete all required initial and recurrent training as directed by the organization.

• Establish and reinforce positive, respectful, and transparent communication and interactions.

• Ensure the team has actionable plans to execute daily and weekly tasks, with risks, delays, and issues monitored on an ongoing basis.

• Ensure appropriate resources are available to complete planned work.

• Escalate operational risks, delays, and other issues to the appropriate level of management.

• Maintain awareness of employee engagement and team morale, ensure the workplace culture aligns with organizational direction, and report concerns as required.

Additional Accountabilities

• Ensure appropriate performance metrics are clearly defined, communicated, and understood by the operational team.

• Provide daily and weekly updates on work progress against plan, including mitigation plans where required.

• Ensure chargehands provide appropriate support, training, and development to team members.

• Ensure employee performance is managed effectively, with progressive discipline identified where required and performance improvement plans implemented when necessary.

• Ensure the team is adequately resourced to execute established work plans.

• Recommend process and performance improvements to enhance operational effectiveness.

Education and Experience

• Certificate, diploma, or degree in aviation, aerospace, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Minimum of four years of progressively responsible leadership experience in aviation or aerospace, preferably within a manufacturing or aerostructures environment.

• Experience coaching and supervising frontline employees and supervisors in a unionized environment is considered an asset.

• Experience with continuous improvement initiatives or programs.

• Strong planning, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.

• Experience facilitating meetings and delivering training is considered an asset.

Other Requirements

• Travel may be required. The successful candidate must be legally able to travel both domestically and internationally.