• Foster a positive, hands-on leadership style that motivates, mentors, and guides technicians to achieve their full potential and maintain a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the SMT production area, working closely with area leadership to define and maintain appropriate product metrics ensuring the highest quality, productivity, and on-time delivery to our customers.
• Hire, train, and manage a team of technicians, ensuring strong process knowledge, operational discipline, and adherence to quality and safety standards.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of SMT equipment and maintenance schedules to track and minimize downtime during production.
• Coordinate and oversee safety, ESD compliance, certifications, and training programs for all production personnel.
• Identify and drive process improvements through Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, leading continuous improvement and Kaizen initiatives on the production floor.
• Support root cause analyses to minimize scrap, improve yield, and enhance process stability.
• Manage multiple simultaneous projects in a dynamic production environment while maintaining a safe and efficient operation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering and quality, to ensure smooth transitions from prototype to full production and implementation of design changes.

• Technician Certification or Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of professional experience in a manufacturing or testing environment.
• 2+ years of experience leading and developing a team of 10 or more employees in a production environment.
• Strong knowledge of SMT processes, lean manufacturing principles, and their practical application.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire, coach, and develop teams through effective communication, positive leadership, and hands-on problem solving.
• Ability to interpret controlled process and product documentation, including schematics, drawings, assembly procedures, work instructions, and bills of material.
• Experience in fast-paced production environments, ideally with high-reliability or flight-quality hardware.
• Proficiency in scheduling, resource planning, and general management tasks using MS Office or equivalent tools:
• Experience with ERP, MES, and PLM systems.

Have you always wanted to wear your favorite space outfit to work? Then you are exactly the right fit for us! Forget the office politics and come and work with inspiring colleagues from all over the world as you embark on an incredible journey with Mynaric to work on unique and challenging projects and make a real contribution to the future of connectivity.
 
We offer you permanent employment, varied areas of responsibility, and attractive employee benefits. Mynaric is absolutely committed to being an equal opportunity employer so we welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, sex, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
 
So if this sounds like the kind of place where you would like to work then apply today and be part of the company that is changing the world!