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Position:
Production Manager
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Job Id:
522
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# of Openings:
1
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Mason welcomes people who share our determination and high standards to join us in doing work that moves the world forward. We design, manufacture, and market highly engineered products and systems principally for the aerospace and defense markets. Mason, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Transdigm, offers world-class control devices and subsystems - such as control grips, throttles, HaWC controllers, and communications interfaces - for today's advanced cockpits, military vehicles, and other specialized applications. Our solutions fall into two broad categories: control products and components.
Title:
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Production Manager
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Job Family:
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Operations
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Reports to:
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Operations Manager
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FLSA Status
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Exempt
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EEOC Class:
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1st-level manager
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Summary
Reporting to the Operations Manager, this individual will be a key member of the manufacturing assembly staff, working closely with safety, engineering, quality, and customers to ensure business goals are met. This role will be a significant contributor and decision-maker as we strive to drive growth in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
The Production Manager position will be responsible for planning and organizing manufacturing activities for the Mason product lines, including transducers within the Controls Business Unit.
This role will manage a team of production leaders, assemblers, and inspectors, providing coaching and mentoring, assisting with problem-solving, managing capital budgets, and driving operational efficiency focused on reducing waste and improving productivity, while driving execution focused on achieving KPIs and customer service.
Position Duties
Essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to:
- Ensure day-to-day safety, quality and manufacturing goals are obtained for the Production lines
- Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the Mason Components Assembly Area
- Proactively prevent injuries to personnel, damage to the facility, and environmental non-compliances and releases. Instill a team focus that promotes individual ownership and care and concern for others
- Plan, implement, control, review, adjust, and communicate production schedules in order to efficiently and effectively use available resources to meet customer demand while maintaining cost, quality, and schedule. Demonstrate effective project management skills
- Develop, implement, and improve systems to maximize production outcomes with the assurance that products meet customer specifications
- Proactively seek opportunities to reduce costs and gain operational productivity, participate in process troubleshooting, development and optimization of new equipment and product lines, development and implementation of process control schemes and resolution of environmental issues
- Apply technical, engineering, personnel experience knowledge to problem-solving and process design
- Provide leadership in the investigation of problems and implementation of appropriate corrective actions
- Presents operation reports to senior management.
- Ensures ongoing improvements are attained for product quality and overall business unit growth, and investigates and resolves causes of inefficiencies and manufacturing variances.
- Provide input to assist with the strategic direction of the plant regarding long-term planning involving operating and capital budgets as well as departmental goals and objectives
- Provide leadership to plant support personnel including reliability, process controls, and process improvement with the objective of improving all plant processes
- Provide leadership and oversight of technology transfers and start-up of new product lines in support of products transitioning from Design and Development into production, experience with process validation and product validation and design for manufacturing preferred
- Assists in the selection of, as well as develops and maintains qualified personnel within the manufacturing assembly department, both supervision and front-line staff
- Continue to build a culture of trust and involvement within the department through positive relations and communication while maintaining discipline and morale with advice from the HR department and leadership team
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, operations or science preferred or equivalent experience in related field. Aerospace manufacturing background is a big plus, and highly preferred.
- Five or more years of managerial experience within a manufacturing business, cross-functional team management preferred
- Demonstrate success in managing people and leading multiple teams and/or departments in manufacturing
- Have strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to use Excel and other related computer programs proficiently and have data mining and presentation skills
- Demonstrate success in achieving results along with experience in Operational Excellence
- Possess business and financial acumen as well as fundamental management principles
- A six sigma background with lean manufacturing experience (Preferred)
- Experience in plant layouts, high-volume production start-ups and turnkey operations (Preferred)
Physical Demands
Employees in this position must possess mobility to:
- work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer; stamina to sit and to maintain attention to detail despite interruptions;
- may occasionally lift/carry/push/pull up to 25 pounds;
- may require minimal walking, climbing, stooping, crouching, and/or bending;
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen, and hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone.
- May require the use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses, safety shoes, and shop coat.
Pay Range Compensation: $110,000 - $140,000 annually
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This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or. any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).
Mason prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.
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Mason Controls
Mar 24, 2026 