Lead, Production
About the Role
Lead, Production
About Epirus: Epirus is a high-growth technology company that develops solid-state, human-safe directed energy systems that enable unprecedented counter-electronics effects and power management solutions to enhance power efficiency in defense and commercial electronics. With a constant emphasis on innovation, we are redefining modern power systems to increase the velocity of change for our customers and bring tomorrow's capabilities to life, today.
Job objective: This is an exciting role in a growing company. The ideal candidate for the position is someone from a hands-on manufacturing background has experience in electro-mechanical assembly, structural integration, and production supervision. This role will lead a group of manufacturing technicians within Epirus. This person will be responsible for day-to-day employee and work management, strategic training initiatives, verification of operating work instructions, and validation of builds to meet customer deliveries. This individual will also serve as a technical working lead, with 30% of the role also spent contributing to hardware build.
Duties:
- Manage a team of assembly technicians through daily coaching, annual reviews, and career development
- Set and achieve daily/weekly/monthly team objectives based on department priorities communicate these effectively to the team
- Organize daily work scopes by assigning clear priorities. Create operating procedures for standard work on the floor.
- Ensure safe use of manufacturing equipment and collaborate with calibration techs for equipment or tooling calibration
- Train employees on new skills and maintain a training matrix to track technician progression and qualify work
- Collaborate with the continuous improvement engineering team to implement new equipment and efficiency improvements
- Work in a fast-paced agile environment and adapt to evolving design and production challenges
- Interface with technicians, procurement, engineering, a