Production Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Westerkirk scores B on the Alion truth index.
Position Summary
The Production Manager has direct accountability for daily and weekly production functions. This role acts as a liaison between direct employees and the Operations Manager and is primarily responsible for ensuring the execution of short-term team objectives.
Duties and Responsibilities
Provide leadership to ensure the team remains aligned with established short-term goals and objectives and meets daily, weekly, and monthly production targets.
Ensure employees adhere to all site health and safety policies and procedures. Support and provide resources for health and safety activities, including meetings, investigations, and audits.
Ensure direct staff and team leads comply with all applicable regulations, standards, and laws, including Transport Canada requirements.
Ensure employees complete all required initial and recurrent training as directed by the organization.
Establish and reinforce positive, respectful, and transparent communication and interactions.
Ensure the team has actionable plans to execute daily and weekly tasks, with risks, delays, and issues monitored on an ongoing basis.
Ensure appropriate resources are available to complete planned work.
Escalate operational risks, delays, and other issues to the appropriate level of management.
Maintain awareness of employee engagement and team morale, ensure the workplace culture aligns with organizational direction, and report concerns as required.
Additional Accountabilities
Ensure appropriate performance metrics are clearly defined, communicated, and understood by the operational team.
Provide daily and weekly updates on work progress against plan, including mitigation plans where required.
Ensure chargehands provide appropriate support, training, and development to team members.
Ensure employee performance is managed effectively, with progressive discipline identified where required and performance improvement plans implemented when necessary.
Ensure the team is adequately resourced to execute established work plans.
Recommend process and performance improvements to enhance operational effectiveness.
Education and Experience
Certificate, diploma, or degree in aviation, aerospace, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of four years of progressively responsible leadership experience in aviation or aerospace, preferably within a manufacturing or aerostructures environment.
Experience coaching and supervising frontline employees and supervisors in a unionized environment is considered an asset.
Experience with continuous improvement initiatives or programs.
Strong planning, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
Experience facilitating meetings and delivering training is considered an asset.
Other Requirements
Travel may be required. The successful candidate must be legally able to travel both domestically and internationally.