Machining Manager

Summary Description

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.

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.

• 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.

• Meet objective goals assigned during performance coaching.
• Ensure machining tasks are completed accurately, on time, and to Weatherby standards.
• Maintain compliance with safety, quality, and production goals.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to acknowledge:

• Ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, kneel, and reach for prolonged periods.
• Ability to manipulate and assemble small parts.
• Vision abilities include close, distance, color, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Routinely lift and/or move up to 55lbs.; push up to 87lbs.; pull up to 130 lbs.