Position Overview
Seeking an experienced Machining Supervisor to lead approximately 15–20 employees, including roughly 3–5 leads or co-leads. This position is responsible for employee development, performance management, staffing, productivity, safety, quality, and overall departmental performance.
This is a highly technical leadership position requiring significant CNC machining expertise. The supervisor will work closely with Quality, CNC Programming, Manufacturing Engineering, machinists, and tooling/equipment vendors to resolve technical and production issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead first-shift machining operations and approximately 15–20 employees.
- Hire, train, evaluate, coach, and develop machining personnel.
- Drive safety, quality, productivity, staffing, machine utilization, and production performance.
- Implement improvements involving equipment, tooling, processes, staffing, and workflow.
- Maintain 6S and support Lean and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Lead cross-training and improve workforce flexibility.
- Prepare labor forecasts, productivity measurements, cost reports, and staffing plans.
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering on SOPs and production procedures.
- Manage departmental budgets and shared resources.
- Support AS9100, safety, environmental, customer-quality, and audit requirements.
Required Experience & Skills
- Approximately 10 years of CNC machining experience.
- 5–10 years of experience leading machining teams.
- Experience overseeing a meaningful CNC machining operation rather than a small shop with only a few machines and employees.
- Advanced blueprint-reading capability.
- Strong practical knowledge of GD&T, including tolerances, datums, geometric controls, inspection results, and print requirements.
- Significant CNC machining knowledge across equipment, tooling, setups, machine capability, processes, and troubleshooting.
- Strong technical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work directly with Quality, CNC Programming, Manufacturing Engineering, machinists, and tooling/equipment vendors.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, cross-training, and developing machinists and floor leads.
- Experience addressing performance issues through coaching and progressive discipline.
- Ability to use and train others on micrometers, calipers, and other precision measuring instruments.
- Ability to interpret CMM output and make production, quality, or process decisions based on the results.
- Ability to evaluate equipment and process capability to determine whether parts can be produced to specification.
Preferred Qualifications
- Aerospace or other high-complexity precision machining experience.
- Lathe experience, particularly Mazak Integrex or similar multi-task equipment.
- Technical or trade-school education.
- Technical background combined with business education.
- OSHA 10, OSHA 30, or comparable experience participating on EHS teams.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills.
- Experience navigating ERP/MRP systems.
Leadership Expectations
- Coach, mentor, and develop employees.
- Hold employees accountable while identifying the cause of performance issues and helping remove obstacles.
- Remain calm and professional during difficult conversations.
- Develop machinists, leads, and co-leads for future responsibilities.
- Be comfortable with change, growth, Lean, 6S, continuous improvement, and innovation.
- Work effectively in a hands-on, privately held, rapidly growing manufacturing environment.
Machining Environment
- Approximately 65 CNC machines at the St. Peters location.
- Approximately 90 machines across the company.
- Occasional collaboration with another facility regarding part transfers, equipment capabilities, and machining processes.
- Very little travel expected.
- Little to no customer-facing responsibility.
Benefits
- 96 hours of PTO during the first year, accrued beginning on day one.
- Nine paid holidays plus a paid anniversary day.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Voluntary life and basic life insurance.
- AD&D.
- EAP.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Parental leave.
- Teladoc services.
- 401(k) match of 100% on the first 3% contributed plus 50% on the next 2%.