SMT Production Area Manager- PCBA Manufacturing

As the SMT Area Manager in a PCBA Manufacturing Facility, you are responsible for leading and optimizing the Surface Mount Technology production line. Your role ensures that SMT operations meet quality standards, production targets, and delivery timelines while maintaining a safe and efficient work environment.

Essential Functions

• Production Oversight : Manage daily SMT line operations including stencil printing, pick-and-place, reflow soldering, X-Ray and AOI / AXI inspection processes.
• Team Leadership : Supervise and develop SMT technicians and operators, ensuring proper training, performance management, and adherence to safety protocols.
• Process Optimization : Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on cycle time reduction, yield enhancement, and defect minimization using Continuous Improvement methods.
• Equipment Management : Oversee preventive maintenance, calibration, and troubleshooting of SMT equipment (e.g., screen printers, placement machines, ovens).
• Quality Assurance : Collaborate with Quality and Engineering teams to resolve process issues, implement corrective actions, and ensure IPC-A-610 compliance.
• Material Coordination : Work closely with supply chain and inventory teams to ensure timely availability of components, feeders, and consumables for uninterrupted production.
• Metrics & Reporting : Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as first-pass yield, throughput, downtime, and line efficiency.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration : Interface with NPI, Test, and Final Assembly teams to support product launches and ensure smooth handoffs between production stages.

Competencies

Supervisory Responsibility

This position oversees various positions within Production, including Leads and Operators and is responsible for the employee life cycle of these employees.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, use fine hand motor skills / dexterity, use repetitive motions, and lift and / or move up to 15 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Travel

Little to no travel is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience

Preferred Education and Experience

Compensation and Benefits

Pro-Active Engineering offers a competitive wage based on experience and a generous benefits package to include health, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long-term disability, retirement plan with a company match, FSA, paid vacation, sick days, holidays and Gain Sharing bonuses. We also offer a business casual dress code. You can wear jeans every day!

AAP / EEO Statement

Pro-Active Engineering provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.