{"id":2107144,"url":"https://alion.io/job/zeiss-x-ray-source-production-line-manager","title":"X-ray Source Production Line Manager","company":{"id":5290,"name":"Zeiss","domain":"zeiss.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/zeiss","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":182,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.775,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":37,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dublin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":128000,"max":160000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":160000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CAPA","optional":false},{"name":"Ray","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-08T20:49:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T22:06:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":12,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":12},"description":"About Us:\nHow many companies can say they’ve been in business for over 179 years?!\nHere at ZEISS, we certainly can! As the pioneers of science, ZEISS handles the everchanging environments in a fast-paced world, meeting it with cutting edge of technologies and continuous advancements. ZEISS believes that innovation and technology are the key to a sustainable future and solutions for global change. We have a diverse range of portfolios throughout the ZEISS family in segments like, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology. We are a global company with over 42,000 employees and have over 4,000 in the US and Canada alone! Make a difference, come join the team!\nLocation/Region: Dublin, CA\nWhat’s the role?\nThe X-ray Source Production Line Manager has full ownership of the ZXR1 production line, including daily work planning and execution, staffing, employee performance, safety, quality, delivery, cost, capacity, systems, and continuous improvement. The manager sets priorities, sequences work, assigns resources, monitors results, removes barriers, and adjusts the plan to meet business commitments.\nReporting to the Director of X-ray Source Production and Development, the manager directly leads the technician organization and coordinates with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Planning, Finance, and other partners to maintain a safe, capable, and predictable production operation.\nKey Responsibilities\nProduction Planning, Execution, Capacity, and Delivery\nOwn the daily, weekly, and longer-range production plan for the ZXR1 line, aligned with customer demand and business commitments.\nSet priorities, sequence work orders, assign technicians and equipment, confirm readiness, and adjust the plan throughout the day as conditions change.\nLead daily floor execution, communicate expectations, monitor progress, and resolve constraints affecting safety, quality, delivery, and cost.\nMaintain capacity and staffing plans covering equipment, process constraints, labor, skills, materials, and forecast demand.\nOwn schedule attainment, shipment commitments, recovery plans, utilization, throughput, and escalation of cross-functional risks.\nTeam Leadership and Development\nDirectly manage and lead ZXR1 technicians, including hiring, onboarding, attendance, work expectations, performance management, employee relations, and development.\nMaintain a culture of accountability focused on safety, quality, ownership, teamwork, and continuous improvement.\nEnsure appropriate staffing, training, cross-training, and skill coverage for current and future production needs.\nCoach employees, provide timely feedback, conduct performance reviews, address performance or conduct issues, and support career development.\nProduction Systems, Master Data, and Inventory Controls\nEnsure timely, accurate SAP transactions for work orders, material movements, labor, inventory, and production completion.\nOwn production routing and master-data governance, coordinating approved BOM, routing, and process changes with Engineering and Planning.\nMaintain inventory accuracy, traceability, and production-data integrity; investigate discrepancies and prevent recurrence.\nPerformance, Financial, and KPI Management\nOwn line metrics and performance, including safety, first-pass yield, output, schedule attainment, efficiency, utilization, scrap, rework, and on-time shipment.\nLead daily production reviews, compare actual performance with plan, assign corrective actions, and follow issues through closure.\nPrepare and present KPI trends, root causes, recovery actions, risks, and improvement priorities.\nManage line financial performance, including labor, overtime, material variance, scrap, rework, inventory, forecasts, budgets, and cost reduction.\nQuality and Continuous Improvement\nOwn production quality performance and partner with Quality and Engineering to strengthen process controls and reduce defects, variation, scrap, and rework.\nEnsure NCRs are contained, investigated, dispositioned, and closed promptly; lead or support CAPAs and verify effectiveness.\nMaintain compliant SOPs, work instructions, checklists, build records, revision control, and training.\nLead continuous improvement work based on safety, quality, delivery, cost, capacity, and employee input.\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nCoordinate with Engineering and Quality to implement approved product, process, documentation, and quality-system changes.\nPartner with NPI and Product Development to transfer products into stable, repeatable production.\nWork with Supply Chain, Planning, and Purchasing to resolve material constraints, inventory risks, and delivery priorities.\nServe as the accountable owner and primary escalation point for ZXR1 production-line performance and cross-functional decisions.\nDo you qualify?\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing, or a related discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.\n10+ years of manufacturing or operations leadership experience, preferably in high-tech or complex assembly.\nDemonstrated experience directly planning daily production, assigning work, leading frontline employees, and meeting safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets.\nTechnical Skills\nAbility to plan and control production using capacity, labor, material, quality, delivery, and cost data.\nWorking knowledge of ERP-based manufacturing, preferably SAP, including work orders, routings, BOMs, labor reporting, inventory, and traceability.\nExperience with KPI management, daily operating reviews, capacity planning, recovery planning, and financial performance.\nWorking knowledge of lean manufacturing, standard work, 5S, Kaizen, NCR, CAPA, 8D, root-cause analysis, and FMEA.\nSoft Skills\nClear, decisive communicator who sets expectations and aligns technicians, partners, and leadership.\nStrong planning, prioritization, and problem-solving skills in a changing production environment.\nProven people leader with sound judgment, accountability, coaching, and conflict-resolution skills.\nVisible, data-driven floor leader who acts quickly, removes barriers, and follows commitments through completion.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with New Product Introduction (NPI) and transitioning products from engineering development into stable production.\nExperience in X ray systems, microscopy, vacuum systems, or other complex electromechanical assemblies.\nPrior experience in a regulated or quality focused environment (e.g., ISO certified manufacturing).\nWork Environment:\nThe physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; sit for long periods of time; use hands to handle or feel objects, grasp tools or operate controls; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk and hear; smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.\nWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee can be exposed to the weather conditions prevalent at the time. In addition, the employee will be exposed to the conditions in the production area and test areas as controlled by the HVAC system and required for the area. The noise level in the work area is usually moderate to extreme. Steel toes shoes will be required.\nThe annual pay range for this position is $128,000 - $160,000\nThe pay offered for this role may be influenced by factors such as job location, scope of role, qualifications, education, experience, & complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent.\nThis position is also eligible for a performance bonus or sales commissions. ZEISS also offers robust benefits, including medical plans, retirement savings plan and paid time off.\nWe have amazing benefits to support you as an employee at ZEISS!\nMedical\nVision\nDental\n401k Matching\nEmployee Assistance Programs\nVacation and sick pay \nThe list goes on! \nThe above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of requirements, duties, or responsibilities. The Company reserves the right to interpret, amend, or otherwise modify, in whole or in part, any job description at any time, at its sole discretion.\nYour ZEISS Recruiting Team:\nJo Anne MittelmanZeiss provides Equal Employment Opportunity without unlawful regard to an Applicants race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizen status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (includes childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic predisposition, carrier status, gender expression or identity, including transgender identity, or any other class or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law of the employee (or the people with whom the employee associates, including relatives and friends).","description_format":"text","description_chars":9408,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Hardware","Manufacturing","Electronics Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T20:49:32Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":62,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.615,"p_room":1,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":37,"reasons":["conf:5","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":160000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zeiss-x-ray-source-production-line-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zeiss-x-ray-source-production-line-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T01:57:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2973,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5290},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5290"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fzeiss-x-ray-source-production-line-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fzeiss-x-ray-source-production-line-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fzeiss-x-ray-source-production-line-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/zeiss-x-ray-source-production-line-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fzeiss-x-ray-source-production-line-manager"}]}