Machining Manager

Machining Manager

Build a Career Where Leadership and Mastery Keep Production Flowing

Do you thrive on leading people, strengthening systems, and improving manufacturing performance? As CNC Machining Manager at Weatherby, you will lead a growing machining department operating across day, night, and weekend shifts. You will provide consistent leadership, develop employees and frontline leaders, and ensure machining operations safely deliver quality parts on time.

The Machining Manager is responsible for the overall leadership and performance of machining operations across all shifts. This role manages employees who set up, program, and operate CNC machines and ensures the department achieves goals in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost. The manager establishes priorities, monitors production performance, strengthens processes, coordinates equipment maintenance, develops team capability, and ensures output meets specifications, schedules, and budget expectations.

You are an experienced machining leader with strong knowledge of CNC operations, production flow, tooling, equipment, and precision manufacturing.

You can lead a growing department across day, night, and weekend shifts while maintaining consistent expectations, communication, and accountability.

You translate production goals into clear priorities for leads, machine operators, and support teams.

You use production data to identify bottlenecks, improve machine utilization, reduce downtime, and strengthen performance.

You build capable leaders and ensure employees receive timely direction, resources, feedback, and support.

You balance safety, quality, delivery, cost, employee development, and long-term operational needs.

A Meaningful Purpose – Enriching the lives of our employees and our customers is a priority.

A Mission We Are Proud Of – Weatherby is committed to delivering exceptional products to customers through premium craftsmanship, innovative design, and industry-leading ballistics-preserving our legacy as a trusted brand in the outdoor community.

We Live Our Values – We hire by them, coach to them, and recognize them daily:
Built to Serve, Anchored in Integrity, Stronger Together, Driven by Precision, Fueled by Grit, Inspired to Create, Committed to Growth, Rooted in Passion

Stability – lead a skilled machining team in a business with deep roots and clear vision.

Skill-building – continue to grow as a leader while mastering programming, tooling design, and lean systems.

Team Culture – we work with a production mindset, knowing our work directly enables other teams to succeed.

Provide overall leadership for machining operations across day, night, and weekend shifts, ensuring consistent direction, communication, and support.

Manage employees and frontline leaders who program, set up, and operate CNC mills, lathes, and related equipment.

Develop production plans that align labor, machine capacity, materials, tooling, and priorities with downstream assembly needs.

Recruit, onboard, coach, evaluate, and develop employees; manage schedules, attendance, PTO, performance, and corrective action with Human Resources.

Monitor production records and KPIs, including safety, quality, schedule attainment, labor efficiency, scrap, rework, machine utilization, and downtime.

Coordinate routine and preventative maintenance, repairs, tooling, fixtures, and equipment resources to reduce breakdowns and interruptions.

Develop, approve, and maintain standard operating procedures, work instructions, setup documentation, and production records.

Partner with Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Assembly, and other leaders to resolve problems and eliminate bottlenecks.

Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, setup reduction, cycle time, workflow, quality, cost, and machine reliability.

Maintain a safe, respectful, clean, and organized machining environment and ensure compliance with established standards.

Every Weatherby leader is expected to create a safe, productive environment and support the well-being of their team-including awareness, training, and education related to safety and substance use.

Lead with professionalism, integrity, and clear…