Manufacturing Manager

Lead strategy and daily operations for a low-volume, high-mix machine shop, ensuring safe, cost-effective, high-quality, and on-time production. This hands-on role advances Lean continuous improvement and aligns people, processes, and resources with customer, operational, and financial objectives.

• Help define and execute short and long-term manufacturing strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Direct daily machine-shop operations, including production planning, scheduling, job priorities, staffing, workflow, and resource allocation.
• Adjust production schedules and resources to reduce bottlenecks and lead times while meeting customer delivery commitments.
• Ensure work meets safety, quality, customer, drawing, regulatory, and schedule requirements; establish and enforce standard work and shop policies.
• Train, coach, cross-train, supervise, and evaluate shop personnel while fostering accountability, teamwork, problem solving, and continuous improvement.
• Apply Lean and Six Sigma methods, including 5S, SMED, standard work, and kaizen, to improve flow, productivity, setup and cycle times, quality, and cost.
• Provide technical leadership for CNC machining, programming, milling, tooling, work holding, troubleshooting, and manufacturability.
• Review work orders, drawings, specifications, and technical documentation; partner with Engineering on process design, tooling, gauging, and production readiness.
• Evaluate and justify capital equipment, automation, machine-monitoring, scheduling, and capacity investments.
• Coordinate preventive maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and maintenance records to maximize equipment availability and minimize downtime.
• Manage inventories of raw material, tooling, supplies, and equipment, and monitor supplier and outside-service performance.
• Collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, and Customer Service to support order execution and resolve risks.
• Use production data and reporting systems to track safety, quality, delivery, cost, scrap, rework, setup and cycle time, lead time, equipment uptime, and labor utilization; implement corrective actions as needed.
• All other duties, as assigned.

Deliver strong safety, quality, and on-time performance; reduce lead time, setup time, scrap, and waste; improve equipment and labor utilization; and develop a flexible, cross-trained team capable of responding to changing priorities. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering, or Operations Management preferred; associate degree/technical credential, or equivalent relevant experience considered.
• Ten or more years of progressive manufacturing experience, including at least five years leading people and operations in a low-volume, high-mix, job-shop, precision-machining, or comparable environment.
• Demonstrated success improving safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost in an onsite production environment.
• Substantial experience with CNC machining, milling, programming, tooling, work holding, and preventive maintenance.
• Experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, kaizen, setup-reduction, and waste-reduction methods.
• Working knowledge of ISO-based quality systems and applicable safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements, with experience in budgeting, capacity planning, capital justification, and operational reporting.

• Strong leadership, coaching, change-management, conflict-resolution, and team-development skills in a hands-on production environment.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, GD&T, technical specifications, work orders, and process documentation and provide manufacturability feedback.
• Ability to manage complex schedules, competing priorities, multiple work orders, urgent requests, and changing operational demands across shifts.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel and the ability to use operational data to make decisions.
• Knowledge of CAD/CAM and CNC programming systems; familiarity with common machine controls and machining materials is preferred.
• Excellent communication, presentation, analytical, organizational, project-management, problem-solving, and…