What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Manager position at ILLUMRA?
About Ad Hoc Electronics
We make wireless switches that don't need batteries. Our products live behind the lights and controls at hotels, convention centers, hospitals, and corporate offices around the world. The whole company runs from one building in Lindon, Utah. We are small (5 to 10 people), profitable, growing, and we move fast.
This is not a sleepy warehouse job. Ad Hoc operates at the intersection of real hardware and real software. Our products use kinetic energy harvesting, BLE, EnOcean wireless, and BACnet protocols. We build firmware in-house, ship custom commissioning apps to our customers, and integrate with major lighting and building-automation players.
The role
We are hiring a Production Manager to own the daily flow of goods end to end: receiving QC through order fulfillment, plus inventory, production scheduling, purchasing, and the production team. This is a hands-on leadership role in a small company where you see the impact of your decisions the same week you make them. You run the floor, you set the schedule, you make the calls. This seat carries more authority than a typical inventory role: you will approve production-team payroll, coordinate international component purchases, own the production schedule, and manage the people who pick, pack, build, and ship.
What you will own
Daily operations:
- Run the morning stand-up and set the day's production and shipping schedule
- Oversee receiving QC on inbound shipments, domestic and overseas
- Drive pick, pack, fulfill, and invoice for customer orders
- Triage day-of issues across receiving, production, and shipping before they become fires
Inventory and purchasing:
- Weekly inventory review and reorder against demand
- Own Bills of Materials (BOMs) and component-level inventory accuracy
- Wireless module forecasting and PO placement on long-lead components
- Bi-weekly Amazon Vendor Central order entry and invoicing
- Coordinate international purchases for overseas components
Team leadership:
- Manage and pace a production team (2 to 4 staff, scaling with volume), plus temps in peak
- Set weekly staffing levels against the production schedule
- Approve payroll for the production team
- Coordinate with Engineering, Sales, and Accounting, some of whom are remote, so video is part of every week
Process, quality, and improvement:
- Develop and deploy SOPs across receiving, production, fulfillment, and inventory. We don't hand you a binder. You write the binder.
- Continuous improvement: something measurably better every week. We will not punish failed experiments. We will punish the absence of experiments.
- Customer RMA processing end to end
- Quarterly Intertek ETL safety inspections. We train your first cycle, you own them after.
- A quarterly tech budget for tools, AI subscriptions, software, or hardware that makes the operation faster
How we will know it is working
- On-time order fulfillment at 95% or better
- Order and invoicing accuracy at 99% or better
- Inventory accuracy at 98% or better at quarter-end count
- Zero critical stockouts: engineers stop chasing parts because you got there first
- ETL inspections pass on the first try
- Every week, something is better than the week before
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $65,000 to $70,000 depending on experience
- Quarterly bonus tied to company performance. When the company has a good quarter, you have a good quarter. When we are tight, the bonus reflects that. Specifics get set with you in your first 30 days.
- Paid time off
- No medical or dental yet. We are small enough that we don't offer group health benefits. We will be straight with you about this, so factor an individual plan into your comp expectations.
Who we are looking for
Required:
- 3 years managing warehouse, production, or fulfillment operations, ideally in a small-company environment where you wore several hats
- Direct experience leading a small team (2 to 6 people): hiring, pacing, accountability
- Strong working knowledge of Bills of Materials (BOMs) and component-level inventory
- Comfortable in NetSuite, QuickBooks, or a similar ERP or inventory system. You will run NetSuite here.
- Fluent with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) for real work, and just as fluent at checking AI's output before acting on it. We will ask you about this in the interview.
- Clear written and verbal communication across departments, comfortable on daily video calls
- Comfortable on your feet for much of the day. This is not a desk job.
- Located in Utah Valley or willing to commute to Lindon. On-site every day because the goods are physical.
Nice to have:
- Electronics manufacturing or assembly background
- Familiarity with EnOcean, BLE, or other wireless module supply chains
- Experience with Amazon Vendor Central or Seller Central operations
- Working knowledge of Intertek ETL or UL certification processes
- Experience coordinating with international suppliers (China, EU)
This will not be a fit if:
- You need a deep org chart and a manager hovering to be effective
- You prefer writing process documents to walking the floor
- You treat inventory as someone else's problem when a sales forecast misses
- You think AI is a magic answer machine. We treat it like a smart but lazy intern that will lie to you if you don't check its work.
The honest pitch
The reward: in a small company, your fingerprints are on every order that goes out. You set the schedule, you lead the team, you buy the tools, and you watch the company move because of decisions you made that morning. You will have skills in three years that take far longer to build inside a big company.
The challenge: sales forecasts will sometimes be wrong, and you will fill the gap from historical order data and direct conversations with the sales team. There is no procurement department to lean on. There is no full QA department. You are the person who makes sure the right product gets built and shipped to the right customer in the right week, and you will be measured on exactly that.
How to apply
Apply through really, or email your resume to accounting1 pm@adhocelectronics.com with the subject line "Production Manager, [Your Name]". In the email, include the largest team you have led and the most painful inventory or fulfillment problem you solved, one example of an AI tool you have used and how you knew its output was good or where you caught it being wrong, and your earliest available start date.
Pay: $65,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person
Salary : $65,000 - $70,000