Operations Manager

Founded in 1969, TAVIS Corporation is an aerospace manufacturing company that offers a peaceful campus-like setting located in the rural town of Mariposa, nestled in the Sierra Foothills, only a short drive from Yosemite National Park. We are a major supplier of highly accurate, rugged and reliable pressure transducers for the Satellite, Launch Vehicle, Spacecraft, and Aircraft industries. Our commitment is to provide the best products and services possible, which meets or exceeds requirements, while continuously improving our management system.

Imagine the sense of accomplishment when you see something you designed or built traveling to the sun on Solar Probe, or helping propel astronauts to Deep Space. Imagine being part of a team, a hardware manufacturing organization that was an integral part, from inception to completion, of America's Space Launch System or the Orion space capsule. Imagine the feeling while watching the launch, landing and data collection of the Mars InSight Probe, knowing you've helped make history and expand the human knowledge of our universe.

Come join our team and be a part of the next adventurous program to put humans deeper into space than ever before and possibly on the surface of Mars for an even greater "giant leap". If you love the idea of working in the environment of a custom manufacturing and high-tech engineering facility, this position will be great for you.

Under policy direction, the Operations Manager coordinates the activities of the Quality Assurance, Production, Purchasing, and Planning functions. This role ensures that all products meet stringent quality standards, production schedules are maintained, on-time delivery is achieved, and engineering design changes are smoothly integrated into manufacturing. Coordinate with the project team (contract administrators & project engineers) to ensure status of work in process (WIP) is available and aligned with customer needs.

The Operations Manager acts as the central point of accountability for workmanship, process efficiency, equipment reliability, and overall operational performance. The Operations Manager reports directly to the President of Tavis Corporation.

· Direct the Quality Assurance and Production managers (including purchasing and planning leads), providing necessary support to achieve assigned goals.

· Foster collaboration between Operations, Engineering, and Contracts for design hand‑offs, change orders, and various other document flow downs.

· Exhibit excellent interpersonal skills, maintain internal and external business relationships, recognize achievements, and promote uncompromising integrity.

· Manage the department budgets, ensuring they have adequate resources, while emphasizing efficient labor utilization.

· Guide the generation of supplier and in-house quality expectations, ensuring compliance with internal procedures and external regulations.

· Attend drawing reviews, ensure designs are easily produceable.

· Oversee the investigation of nonconformances, directing corrective/preventive action plans of respective team, and tracking their effectiveness.

· Sit on Material Review Board (MRB)

· Monitor and guide workflow to improve throughput and cost of quality, and drive on-time delivery.

· Review production schedules, ensuring they reflect engineering releases, material availability, and capacity constraints.

· Monitor shop‑floor performance, identify equipment issues, resolve bottlenecks, and coordinate maintenance activities.

· Guide optimization of workflow to improve throughput, reduce waste, and increase overall process effectiveness.

· Develop and enforce procurement strategies to reduce cost and mitigate risk.

· Collaborate with engineering and production to forecast material needs, prevent shortages, and optimize inventory levels.

· Define and monitor key performance indicators such as workmanship error rate, cycle‑time efficiency, and on‑time delivery.

· Establish a reporting cadence for all managers and leads to submit KPI data.

· Produce a dashboard for…