• Organize departmental management structure and teams for optimal, efficient operations.
• Oversee the manufacturing of products, ensuring production, performance, and quality standards are consistently met.
• Provide technical vision and direction to ensure the production supervisors are aligned with the strategy of the company.
• Review production reports to ensure safety, quality, financial, and delivery goals and standards are met. 
• Monitor production stations to determine backlog and manpower requirements and coordinates with each of the department supervisor or team lead for a resolution.
• Identify production floor process problems and take lead to report and resolve obstacles in collaboration with department managers.
• Point of escalation for any production floor issues that have not or cannot be resolved by primary supervisors. Escalate to Senior Leadership or Human Resources as necessary.
• Review and update procedures in all production departments to help increase productivity on the production floor.
• Initiate software program change request to improve job efficiency, and work with AS400 team and software engineering team to implement the improvement plan.
• Participate in ECO/NPO review meetings from a manufacturability standpoint.
• Recommend setting up production lines as required in coordination with other depts (i.e., MPE)
• Participate in management review meetings.
• Ensure company procedures and policies are followed and enforced.
• Provide guidance to team members to help ensure project deadlines are achieved.
• Ensure a healthy and safe working environment, and compliance with federal and state regulations, through collaboration with environmental, health, and safety staff. 
• Identify manpower staffing and any special facility or other requirements for department or project. 
• Promote ISO 9000, AS9100, and ISO 14001 awareness among members.
• Conduct facility tours.
• Any other job-related task as assigned by upper management.

• Assists the Vice President of North American Operations and the Continuous Improvement Manager in crafting the strategy for the business including the technical direction for the company.
• Support multiple projects simultaneously with competing priorities.
• Define objectives and track results for FL Supervisors.
• Review and approve equipment purchase, maintenance, and layout. 
• Develop and manage departmental budget.
• Determine the staffing needs.
• Authorize overtime for production members in coordination with production supervisors.
• Conduct performance evaluations that are timely and constructive. 
• Handle discipline and termination of employees as needed and in accordance with company policy. 
• Organize and lead the work of the team (s) by delegating assignments, provide guidance to achieve projects objectives in accordance with established timelines and policies.
• Prepare and present project(s) status to Senior Management including project deliverables such as performance, scheduling, budgeting, and costs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Industrial Management, or related field.
• 7-10 years of experience in a manufacturing management role with demonstrated ability to oversee multiple lines of production and significant span of control.
• Professional and positive approach, self-motivated, strong in building relationships, team player, dynamic, creative with the ability to work on own initiative.
• Demonstrated team building and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to understand and develop flow charts.
• Excellent organizational and managerial skills. 
• Thorough understanding of the policies and practices used in the manufacturing division. 
• Ability to set long-term goals and communicate them to others. 
• Ability to motivate and organize multiple efforts to accomplish goals. 
• “Out of the box thinker” supporting the manufacturing strategies that match our products roadmap deliverables.
• Strong relationship management, strategy development, project management, problem solving and change management skills.
• Strong analytical skills to come up with creative solutions to any challenges the organization may be facing.
• Manage diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities.
• Business related computer skills including strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Additional Requirements/Skills: 

• Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives to ensure a safe work environment.
• Ability and willingness to abide by Company’s Code of Conduct.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to drive for extended periods of time.
• Occasional travel, some overnight, as required.

Disclaimer: The listed qualifications and requirements for each position are intended as guidelines.  Mini-Circuits reserves the right to hire outside of these guidelines at Management’s discretion.

Mini-Circuits is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, gender identity, gender dysphoria, pregnancy-related condition, and domestic violence victim status or protected class characteristic, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal or state law.