Manager, Electrical Production

Job Description

Job Title:Manager, Electrical Production. Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

You will align people, processes, and tools to meet business goals while ensuring strong execution, quality, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Duties:

• Lead and scale the electrical production team with a focus on quality, efficiency, and accountability.
• Own end-to-end production execution, including scheduling, resource planning, and capacity management.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures to improve efficiency, compliance, and consistency.
• Mentor, train, and support production staff to maintain high work standards;
• Coordinate with planners to ensure production schedules meet delivery and capacity commitments.
• Work hands-on with electronic and electrical components and understand their technical parameters.
• Improve production workflows, space planning, equipment layout, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage production budgets, cost analysis, KPIs, and performance reporting.
• Support ECO implementation, inventory counts, and discrepancy investigations;
• Partner with Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Sales, and Lab Operations on production strategy and large-scale initiatives.
• Support ongoing improvements to ERP and MRP systems and adoption of new processes.
• Enforce safety protocols and ensure equipment is properly maintained and compliant.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of electrical production experience, including 4+ years in a people leadership role.
• Strong understanding of MRP, ERP, and multi-level BOM production planning.
• Proven experience managing production teams with ownership of performance outcomes.
• Working knowledge of quality systems and continuous improvement practices.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics and SolidWorks drawings;
• Strong knowledge of soldering equipment, techniques, and processes.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to make informed decisions with limited data and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.

Desired and Additional:

• Experience with NetSuite and Fusion Lifecycle.
• Knowledge of Kanban systems and FIFO inventory management.
• Experience with SMT and PCB population processes.
• Flexibility to work extended hours during peak periods.
• Ability to lead technical discussions between engineering and production teams.
• Willingness to travel to local vendor sites when required.

Benefits and Instructions:

• Base salary range: 132,880 to 199,320 CAD per year, based in Burnaby.
• Role includes equity, bonus, benefits, and additional perks discussed during the interview process.
• Hybrid work model based in Burnaby, British Columbia;
• D-Wave offers a collaborative and inclusive culture focused on growth, ownership, and impact.
• No third-party candidates will be accepted.
• D-Wave is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion across all teams.