Manager Production

🚀 Challenge the Impossible​ ​

About Beyond Gravity

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1800 professionals, spread across 14 locations in seven countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites, launchers and semiconductor industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.

Your Mission

• Responsible for on time delivery of products from their respective work area, 180 Bonding, with safety and quality ALWAYS at the forefront.
• Set daily and weekly goals and clear expectations for safety, quality and delivery for team leads and technicians
• Develop and execute on recovery plans for production disruptions
• Specific responsibilities with approximate time allocation:
  • Schedule - develops/works daily schedule that support the high-level master schedule. These daily schedules are used to populate daily needs in the visual management boards. Leads and manages visual management tools and dashboards with information from daily schedule. - 15%
    • Planning of overtime & resources
  • Personnel - one-on-ones with direct reports at least once per quarter. - 25%
    • Ensures all employees are up to date with compliance training
    • Document employee coaching
    • Validate team is productive and charging labor correctly to meet productivity requirement
    • Performance management, development plans - develops leads into future managers
  • Continuous improvement – documented and implemented – 10%
    • Assess and drive 5S improvement actions
    • Maintain an emphasis on FOD elimination
    • Process and Quality improvements – identifies improvement opportunities and drives those opportunities to successful completion and implementation to enable delivery execution and ramp to rate.
  • Issues/Escalations - resolves as many issues as possible each day to keep their area fully operational. Works with other areas and escalates issues when unable to resolve at lowest level. - 50%

Your Story

• Relevant degree preferred
• Prior supervision experience preferred
• Firm understanding of process development, validation, and deployment in an advanced manufacturing environment (e.g., Aerospace, Automotive, Defense)
• Must demonstrate understanding of manufacturing, engineering, and quality requirements of aerospace composite integration, machining, and completion processes.
• Must demonstrate proficiency with MS Office or similar tools to prepare reporting and metrics tracking

🌌Are you ready for lift-off?​

Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. Propel your career to new heights by applying. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.​

For questions regarding the position, please contact: ​​Kelly Bachand | kelly.bachand@beyondgravity.com 
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For questions regarding the position or recruitment process, please contact: ​​Michelle Lach | michelle.lach@beyondgravity.com  

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Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.​

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Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.