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FullSteam

Production Leads

Del Rey, CA · On-site

$17 - $19/hr

We are hiring Production Leads to help oversee daily production activities, support employees, and ensure production, quality, and safety standards are met throughout the busy pomegranate season.

Lead

Product Leader

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$153.90 - $235/hr

Lead is a fintech building banking infrastructure for embedded financial products and services. We operate an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, we have offices ...

Lead

Product Leader

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

$153.90 - $235/hr

Lead is a fintech building banking infrastructure for embedded financial products and services. We operate an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, we have offices ...

Mission Edge

Production Line Leader

Watsonville, CA · On-site

$18 - $20/hr

Position Summary The Production Line Leader is a hands-on supervisory role responsible for driving the performance, quality, and efficiency of a dedicated production line at El Pájaro CDC Co-packing.

Attalon, Inc.

Coating Production Manager

Murrieta, CA · On-site

$101 - $139/hr

The Coating Production Manager leads daily operations for Attalon's thin‑film coating production department. This role is responsible for building discipline, consistency, and alignment across all ...

Attalon, Inc.

Coating Production Manager

Murrieta, CA · On-site

$100K - $138K/yr

Job Details The Coating Production Manager leads daily operations for Attalon's thin‑film coating production department. This role is responsible for building discipline, consistency, and alignment ...

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How much do production leader jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 27, 2026, the average hourly pay for production leader in California is $22.18, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $17.79 and $24.42 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a production leader?

Production Leaders are professionals responsible for overseeing and coordinating the day-to-day operations on a manufacturing or production floor. They ensure that production targets are met safely, efficiently, and within quality standards. Their duties often include supervising staff, managing workflow, resolving issues, and implementing process improvements. Production Leaders also play a key role in training employees and maintaining a safe working environment.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a production leader?

To thrive as a Production Leader, you need expertise in manufacturing processes, process optimization, and team supervision, often supported by a degree in engineering, business, or a related field. Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, ERP systems, and production scheduling tools is highly beneficial. Strong leadership, problem-solving abilities, and excellent communication skills help drive team performance and maintain operational efficiency. These skills are crucial for ensuring productivity, product quality, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced production environment.

How does a production leader typically collaborate with other departments to ensure smooth workflow on the production floor?

A Production Leader plays a central role in coordinating with departments such as quality assurance, maintenance, logistics, and supply chain to keep production running efficiently. They regularly communicate with these teams to address issues like equipment downtime, material shortages, or quality concerns. This collaboration often involves daily meetings, cross-department updates, and joint problem-solving sessions. Building strong working relationships across departments is key to anticipating potential bottlenecks and ensuring production targets are met.
Production Leader jobs near you
Infographic showing various Production Leader job openings in California as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 77% Full Time, 17% Part Time, and 5% Contract. Highlights an 93% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 4% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $46,125 per year, or $22.2 per hour.

Production Leader / Senior Production Manager

Burlingame, CA • On-site

Xona Space Systems, Inc
Library and Information Services • 11 - 50 employees
Learn more about Xona Space Systems, Incexternal

$175K - $220K/yr

Full-time

Posted 27 days ago

Job description

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.
With Pulsar - the world's most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit - Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection.
Overview
We're looking for an experienced Production Leader to manage the satellite manufacturing production team.
You will lead the day-to-day manufacturing operations within the Satellite Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT) facility in Burlingame, CA.
This high-impact leadership role ensures safe, predictable, high-quality, and on-time execution of production activities while continuously improving operational efficiency, throughput, and production scale readiness.
The role manages production planning, shop floor leadership, production technicians, and equipment and facilities maintenance. The production leader will partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance, Program Management, and Engineering.
What You'll Do:
  • Manage the production team responsible for safe, high quality, on-time, scaled production of the Xona satellite at the Burlingame facility.
  • Manage the overall production processes and activities; production work order planning, shift staffing, shift hand-over communications, operational KPI tracking and production facility efficiency.
  • As an experienced manager of a scaled production operation, the production leader will lead, coach and develop a highly effective production team and maintain high standards of safety, accountability and performance.
  • Demonstrate high levels of autonomy and cross-team collaboration to deliver on the production ramp-up targets. Support the maturation and continuous improvement of the production system, while aggressively driving down the cost learning curve.
  • Assume full ownership of achieving the master production schedule and translating this into executable daily and weekly work order releases, tracking and timely closures. Will drive to optimize workforce efficiency, equipment capacity, minimize work in progress and maximize build quality.
  • Oversee the equipment maintenance and facilities function
  • Support the development and management of the production budget, including capital expenditure, logistics, production tools and staffing roadmap.

Desired Qualifications
  • 5+ years in a supervisor or manager role in a scaled, production facility, preferably with complex, highly engineered products, with an emphasis on assembly, integration and testing at production build rates of >2/week.
  • Holds a Bachelor's degree at a minimum in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or related field.
  • Experience in a Space industry manufacturing business, or A&D manufacturing business is desirable. Experience with manufacturing products that require extensive hardware and software assembly, integration and testing is ideal.
  • You know the lean manufacturing and TPM fundamentals and have demonstrated how to apply and implement these effectively in a production environment. Working knowledge of six sigma is highly preferred.
  • You're comfortable in an environment where plans and processes are being developed and iterated in response to customer or market forces. You can take this in your stride and adapt quickly and effectively.
  • Working knowledge of ERP/MES/QA digital systems and how these fully integrate into an efficient digital factory as a critical tool for the production team.
  • You fundamentally understand what a QMS system is and build teams that respect and manage within this essential production framework.
  • You are able to initiate processes, tools and methods that are not in place yet and ensure they are adopted and continually assessed and improved over time.
  • Demonstrate excellent leadership, communication and organizational skills. Able to hire, grow and mentor others to build and lead a highly effective production team.

For U.S. Roles: To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
For U.K. Roles: To comply with U.K. regulations, this role requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks, and successful candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
For Canada Roles: Successful candidates must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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