SMFO GMO Supervisor

Requisition
19450
-Posted
08/18/2026

- Production and Manufacture
- Level of Experience (1)
- Travel - 30% or less
- Job Location Options (1)

Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: SMFO GMO Supervisor
Career Level:Supervisor
Job Specialty: Nuclear/High Hazard Operations

The Production Front Line Supervisor plans, schedules, and directly supervises the work of hourly personnel assigned to their work crew.

Responsibilities:

• Achieving established goals for production quantities, product quality, personnel safety, procedural adherence, and security protocol adherence within their assigned area of responsibility.
• Setting performance expectations and monitoring productivity of employees assigned to their work area.
• Maintaining the training and qualifications of assigned workers and matching tasks with employee skills, experience, and training qualifications.
• Instructing employees in safety controls, equipment, processes, and special fabrication methods and techniques.
• Ensuring employees have the knowledge, experience, skills, and are trained and qualified to perform assigned functions.
• Ensuring that work assignments are in accordance with union contracts and craft jurisdictions.
• Maintaining safe work conditions, good housekeeping, and organization of workplace tools and materials.
• Proactively preventing injuries, contaminations, or other hazardous exposures to the workforce.
• Obtaining work start authorization for daily operations to ensure compliance requirements are met.
• Executing work within required cost and schedule agreements.
• Conducting crew briefs and pre-job briefs, monitors timekeeping and accountable absences, maintains appropriate records, and documents activities and events.
• Handles personnel matters associated with the work group including administration of the bargaining unit contract.
• Interviews, hires, or makes hiring recommendations; evaluates performance, coaches, counsels, rewards, and disciplines employees, as appropriate; handles employee complaints and personnel problems.

Accountabilities:

• To the Production Support Manager for the Production division deliverables and employee safety.
• To their assigned crews for training, coordination, involvement, issue resolution, and communication, including resolution of personnel and/or equipment issues.

Authorities:

• Authorized to manage the Production craft workers to support mission deliverables.
• Authorized to resolve cost, schedule, or resource conflicts regarding mission deliverables within their span of control.
• Authorized to represent the Production Division in interactions with Labor Relations personnel.
• Authorized to represent the workers in development of procedures and operating protocols that directly affect the work conditions and job performance.

• Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security.
• Top-notch, dedicated colleagues.
• Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization.
• Career advancement and professional development programs.
• Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree:
  Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Thirteen or more years of relevant education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.

• Three years’ relevant job experience in a machining/fabrication/welding operations in a manufacturing disciplined facility production environment is required.
• Working knowledge of machining, metal fabrication and/or welding manufacturing.
• Skill in developing innovative measures to promote efficiency and achieve economies.
• Requires demonstrated analytical ability and ability to communicate, both in writing and through interpersonal skills.
• Requires strong leadership skills and establishing effective working relationships with Senior Managers, peers, and other team members to achieve organizational objectives.
• Must have demonstrated good decision-making skills, oral and written communication skills, and basic computer skills.
• Must be willing to take accountability, have initiative, self-motivation and proven success in meeting…