Production Manager

Your role is the Production Manager. You will be responsible for planning, managing, and improving BeeX’s end-to-end production activities across mechanical assembly, electrical integration, system build, and production testing readiness. This role ensures products are delivered safely, on time, at the required quality level, and in a scalable manner as the company grows.

The ideal candidate combines strong manufacturing discipline with practical experience in high-mix, low-to-medium volume production environments, preferably involving robotics, electronics, marine systems, or other complex electromechanical products.

• Lead daily production operations across assembly, integration, and manufacturing support activities.

• Develop and manage production schedules based on delivery priorities, engineering readiness, material availability, and manpower capacity.

• Ensure on-time completion of builds, rework, and production-related milestones.

• Coordinate closely with engineering, supply chain, quality, and testing teams to remove bottlenecks and maintain production flow.

• Manage, coach, and develop technicians, assemblers, and production support staff.

• Build a high-performance production culture focused on accountability, quality, safety, and continuous improvement.

• Plan manpower allocation effectively across production stages and shifting priorities.

• Support hiring, onboarding, training, and performance management of production personnel.

• Establish and enforce robust assembly and workmanship standards.

• Work with engineering and quality teams to implement work instructions, SOPs, checklists, and inspection gates.

• Ensure production records, traceability, and documentation are complete and accurate.

• Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for defects, failures, and recurring build issues.

• Support supplier quality feedback loops and internal non-conformance management.

• Partner with engineering teams on prototype-to-production transition and NPI activities.

• Improve manufacturability, repeatability, and production readiness of new products and revisions.

• Identify tooling, fixtures, layout, and process improvements needed for scale.

• Support configuration control and change implementation for product updates.

• Coordinate with testing teams to ensure systems are build-ready for functional, pressure, and wet testing.

• Ensure production output meets defined acceptance criteria before transfer to test or deployment preparation.

• Support investigation of production-related failures found during test or field deployment.

• Work closely with procurement and logistics teams to ensure material readiness and minimize shortages.

• Monitor WIP, inventory usage, and critical part constraints affecting build schedules.

• Help define reorder signals, kit readiness processes, and production staging practices.

• Drive Lean, 5S, visual management, and process efficiency improvements across the production floor.

• Improve layout, workstation design, tool control, and material flow.

• Define and track KPIs such as output, first-pass yield, rework rate, schedule adherence, and labor efficiency.

• Lead initiatives that improve throughput, quality, and cost performance.

• Safety and Compliance

• Maintain a safe, organized, and disciplined production environment.

• Enforce EHS practices relevant to assembly, lifting, power tools, electrical integration, pressure-related preparations, and wet test support.

• Ensure production activities comply with internal standards and applicable regulatory or customer requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in production, manufacturing, or operations management.

• Experience managing production teams in electromechanical, robotics, marine, aerospace, automotive, or other complex hardware environments.

• Strong understanding of production planning, assembly control, quality systems, and manufacturing workflows.

• Experience with ERP/MRP systems, production reporting, and inventory coordination.

• Ability to read engineering drawings, BOMs, assembly documentation, and revision-controlled instructions.

• Strong people leadership and cross-functional coordination skills.

• Strong problem-solving ability with a practical, hands-on approach.

• Experience in underwater systems, marine technology, robotics, industrial equipment, or mission-critical hardware.

• Familiarity with low-volume, high-complexity manufacturing environments.

• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, and continuous improvement tools.

• Experience supporting NPI, DFM/DFMA, and production scale-up.

• Understanding of ESD controls, cable harnessing, sealing, pressure-related assembly practices, or environmental testing workflows.

• Market competitive salary

• Growth opportunities that align with your direct ability in helping the company, rather than an arbitrary corporate ladder

• ESOP / equity participation

• Healthcare support

• Special access to industry events

• Well-stocked pantry with nice snacks

• Support for skills upgrading / learning credits