Production Team Lead - 2nd Shift

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us! Production Team Lead Chatsworth - California, USA | Regular, Full-Time About Ontic Chatsworth Our 114,000 sq ft Chatsworth facility in Los Angeles specializes in electronic and electro-mechanical aerospace products, supporting critical systems including airborne radar, cabin and cockpit lighting, flight controls, engine and environmental controls and pilot controls. Behind those products is a team solving complex technical and operational challenges every day. With specialist manufacturing and testing capabilities on site, Chatsworth combines decades of aerospace expertise with the opportunity to keep improving how we deliver for our customers. Join the team and your work will contribute directly to the reliability and availability of systems used across civil and military aviation around the world. The opportunity As a Production Team Lead at Ontic, you'll combine hands-on technical expertise with day-to-day leadership of a production team. You'll be right there alongside the team, helping coordinate the work, solve problems and make sure production stays on track against safety, quality and delivery priorities. This is a role for someone who understands the work themselves and can use that experience to help others succeed. You'll provide technical guidance, help troubleshoot production and process issues, coach less experienced colleagues and act as the first point of support when challenges arise. You'll work closely with the Cell Manager while taking ownership of the team's day-to-day coordination, creating an environment where people can do their best work and where safe working, quality and continuous improvement remain at the heart of how the team operates. What you'll be doing Coordinate daily work across the team, helping balance priorities and keep production moving against agreed output, quality and delivery requirements. Stay hands-on in the work, using your technical knowledge to guide the team and provide first-line support for production, equipment and process issues. Help identify root causes when problems arise and escalate issues that require additional technical or management support. Make sure work is carried out in line with engineering drawings, work instructions, build documentation, quality procedures and safety requirements. Coach and support technicians and new starters, sharing your knowledge and helping build capability across the team. Maintain accurate production information and use business systems to keep work status current. Support the Cell Manager with day-to-day operational needs while promoting safe working, housekeeping, 5S/6S and continuous improvement across the team. What you'll bring Substantial hands-on experience in a manufacturing or assembly environment. Strong technical competence within your production or process…