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Senior Operations Engineer
Gardena, Los Angeles · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in manufacturing operations, production planning, or industrial engineering.
About the job
Improve factory output by implementing production standards, solving floor-level problems, owning quality and material flow, and using operational data to drive decisions.
What you'll do
- Implement work instructions and preventive maintenance routines; resolve production deviations with technicians and engineers.
- Track quality, throughput, efficiency, and downtime; identify root causes and drive lasting improvements without increasing headcount.
- Own material flow, factory layout, and production data integrity and reporting.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated significant quality and throughput improvements on a production floor, with trust from technicians and engineers.
- Hands-on experience running an ERP or MRP system, including work orders, BOMs, inventory transactions, and routings, and using its data to drive action.
- Experience in an environment where production rate and cost per unit were daily pressures.
- 5+ years in manufacturing operations, production planning, or industrial engineering, with sustained plant-level accountability and presence.
Nice to have
- Owned material flow or logistics/inventory functions; written SOPs or work instructions adopted by a team.
- Experience in high-volume manufacturing, automotive supply chain, fulfillment, food and beverage, or medical devices; practical Lean experience; SQL or equivalent.
Tools
ERP, PLM, MCP server, SQL
AI focus
Use AI tools to improve productivity; use the internal MCP server to let people and AI agents query factory systems.
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