**Assembly Area Manager** **What You Need:** + **Education & Experience:** Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred. 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing operations (preferably automotive) with supervisory experience over production areas and/or salaried employees. + **Technical Knowledge:** Familiarity with lean manufacturing, standardized work, and continuous improvement processes. Experience in manufacturing launches, maintenance, or engineering is a plus. + **Leadership Skills:** Strong ability to mentor and develop teams, foster autonomy, and drive results in a unionized environment. + **Problem-Solving:** Ability to apply PDCA/8D corrective action processes and utilize structured problem-solving methodologies driven by data analysis. + **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Experience working closely with engineering, maintenance, finance, HR, logistics, quality, purchasing, and sales teams. + **Business Acumen:** Understanding of manufacturing engineering, maintenance, material planning & logistics, and quality assurance. + **People Management:** Experience overseeing 25-75 employees, including team leads, hourly personnel, and supervisors. **What You Will Do:** + **Lead Production Operations:** Supervise assigned assembly lines and oversee assembly supervisors to ensure efficient, cost-effective, and high-quality production. + **Ensure Safety & Compliance:** Enforce plant safety rules, PPE compliance, and daily stretching activities while maintaining adherence to policies and regulations. + **Drive Quality & Continuous Improvement:** Monitor quality metrics, implement corrective actions, and maintain 5S standards for a well-organized workspace. + **Optimize Processes:** Identify bottlenecks, track downtime, and implement process improvements to meet engineering standards and eliminate inefficiencies. + **Team Development & Engagement:** Coach, mentor, and evaluate team performance, providing constructive feedback and professional development opportunities. + **Problem-Solving & Decision-Making:** Utilize data-driven analysis to address production deviations, scrap reduction, and process inefficiencies. + **Maintain Union Relations:** Ensure fair administration of the collective bargaining agreement and proactively engage with HR as needed. + **Communicate & Report:** Maintain updated KPI visual boards, conduct daily five-minute meetings, and ensure clear communication of objectives. This role is ideal for a dynamic leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about driving efficiency, quality, and teamwork in manufacturing operations. **If you meet the above qualifications and would like to apply for this position, you may email your up-to-date, professional CV/resume to Tim Dameron @ timothy.dameron@** **adeccona.com.** _Perfect placements. Speedy staffing. Tenacious testing. Who’s Adecco, we hear you ask? Only the top provider of first-class HR solutions. Our consultants work with some of the best, and most exciting, companies all over the world. We equip our clients with priceless industry insight and put everything we’ve got into training and mentoring our candidates._ _We’re here to match talented people with the job opportunities and employers they’re looking for. On any given day we connect over 700,000 people with fulfilling opportunities that make the most of their skills now and enable them to develop new expertise for the future._ **Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled** **To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to** **https://www.adeccousa.com/candidate-privacy** **The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records** **Pay Details:** $95,000.00 to $118,250.00 per year Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.adecco.com/en-us/candidate-privacy The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable: + The California Fair Chance Act + Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance + Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers + San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance