Manager, Production

CelLink is scaling advanced manufacturing in Georgetown, and we’re looking for a hands-on Production Manager to lead production across assigned areas and shifts.

You’ll be responsible for turning production requirements into execution, ensuring we have the people, materials, equipment, processes, and accountability needed to hit our safety, quality, delivery, cost, yield, and throughput goals.

This is a highly visible manufacturing leadership role. You’ll spend significant time on the floor, developing Supervisors and frontline teams, identifying constraints, and working cross-functionally to solve production and equipment issues in real time.

We’re looking for someone who can lead people and understand the technology behind the operation. You’ll develop a strong working knowledge of our automated equipment, controls, tooling, processes, and product requirements so you can recognize abnormalities, direct effective troubleshooting, and help stabilize and scale production.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day production across assigned areas and shifts, ensuring staffing, equipment readiness, materials, shift handoffs, and recovery plans support customer commitments.
• Own performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, yield, throughput, productivity, and workforce objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop Production Supervisors and frontline leaders, building accountability and capability in performance management, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
• Lead production ramp and readiness for new and sustaining programs, including hiring, staffing, training, qualification, capacity, bottleneck identification, and stabilization.
• Develop strong technical knowledge of assigned manufacturing processes, automated equipment, controls, tooling, and process parameters to recognize abnormalities and guide troubleshooting and escalation.
• Monitor OEE, downtime, recurring faults, cycle time, changeovers, and other production losses and use data to prioritize improvements.
• Partner with Engineering, Maintenance, Automation & Controls, Quality, Supply Chain, Planning, EHS, and HR to resolve constraints, support equipment installation/commissioning, and successfully ramp new processes and products.
• Build technical capability within Production around equipment operation, process control, abnormality recognition, first-response troubleshooting, escalation, and standard work.
• Drive continuous improvement through Lean, 5S, visual management, structured problem-solving, and data-driven improvements to throughput, yield, efficiency, cycle time, equipment availability, scrap, and rework.
• Partner with HR and production leadership to strengthen engagement, retention, communication, accountability, and team performance.
• Maintain a safe, clean, organized, and compliant manufacturing environment.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Technology, Operations Management, or a related field preferred; equivalent technical education and significant hands-on experience considered.
• 7+ years of progressive manufacturing or production experience, including 5+ years leading Supervisors or other people leaders.
• Experience leading production in a high-volume, automated, or technically complex manufacturing environment.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong understanding of automated equipment, manufacturing processes, controls, tooling, process performance, and equipment troubleshooting.
• Proven ability to drive safety, quality, delivery, cost, staffing, yield, throughput, and employee performance.
• Strong experience using production data and KPIs to identify problems, prioritize actions, and improve results.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills and experience partnering with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Supply Chain, Automation & Controls, and other technical teams.
• Strong knowledge of Lean manufacturing, standard work, 5S, root-cause analysis, and structured problem-solving.

Nice to Have

• Experience in automotive, electronics, battery, semiconductor, high-speed assembly, or other advanced manufacturing.
• Experience supporting 24/7 operations.
• Experience with NPI, production ramp-up, automated equipment installation/commissioning, process qualification, stabilization, or capacity expansion.
• Lean/Six Sigma training or certification.
• Experience with MES, ERP, production dashboards, or manufacturing reporting systems.
• Experience scaling operations through significant growth or organizational change.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Physical Demands – Manufacturing Environment

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to perform physically demanding work for extended periods of time, up to 12 hours a day. Position includes the ability to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms and pull/push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl for extended periods of time. The employee must lift and/or move up to 35 pounds without assistance (including ability to carry 20 lbs. up and down stairs). Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus

Work Environment – Manufacturing/Shop Environment

Includes a shop environment, with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to hazardous materials used during the material prep process.