Location: Santa Clara, CA
Job Type: Full-time, Hourly
About the Role
We are a manufacturer of industrial safety and instrumentation equipment seeking a hands-on Production Lead to support daily manufacturing execution, production coordination, and shipment readiness in a fast-paced industrial manufacturing environment. This position is responsible for helping drive production flow, coordinating priorities across departments, resolving manufacturing bottlenecks, and ensuring customer orders move efficiently through assembly, testing, and shipping. The role requires strong organization, urgency, and the ability to manage changing production priorities across multiple product lines and customer projects. This is an active production-floor role requiring close coordination with manufacturing, testing, engineering, purchasing, logistics, and operations teams.
What You’ll Do
- Coordinate and oversee daily production activities and manufacturing priorities
- Help ensure customer orders are completed and shipped according to schedule
- Track shortages, production blockers, material availability, and work order status
- Coordinate activities between production, testing, engineering, purchasing, and shipping teams
- Support production planning and workflow organization
- Monitor manufacturing progress and help resolve operational bottlenecks
- Assist with scheduling priorities based on shipment commitments and material availability
- Maintain production organization, accountability, and operational visibility
- Support onboarding and guidance of production personnel
- Participate in daily production and operations meetings
How Success Looks Like
- Production schedules and daily priorities are coordinated smoothly
- Customer orders are completed and shipped on time
- Production delays and bottlenecks are identified and resolved quickly
- Materials, work orders, and inventory are tracked accurately
- Communication between production, testing, engineering, purchasing, and shipping teams remains clear and organized
- Manufacturing workflow stays organized despite changing priorities
- Production personnel receive proper support and guidance during daily operations
- Work area and production floor remain organized, efficient, and operationally visible
Requirements
- 3+ years of manufacturing, production coordination, or production leadership experience
- Experience working in electronics, industrial equipment, instrumentation, electromechanical, or industrial manufacturing environments
- Strong organizational and follow-up skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and changing production schedules
- Comfortable working directly with production personnel and cross-functional teams
- Experience with ERP systems, work orders, inventory tracking, or production scheduling preferred
- Strong communication and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to work on-site in Santa Clara, CA
Why Join Us
- Work closely with a supportive and collaborative team
- Make a direct impact on daily production and operations
- Gain hands-on experience with specialized industrial safety products
- Opportunity for long-term growth as the company continues to expand
- Be part of a stable and growing company in the industrial safety industry
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- How many employees or technicians did you directly supervise or coordinate in your previous role(s)?
- Do you have at least 3 years of manufacturing, production coordination, or production leadership experience? (Yes/No)
- Have you worked in a manufacturing environment where multiple different products or custom configurations were built at the same time? (Yes/No)
- Have you worked in electronics, industrial equipment, instrumentation, or electromechanical manufacturing? (Yes/No)
- Are you willing to occasionally work overtime or Saturdays during urgent production or shipment deadlines? (Yes/No)
Work Location: In person
