2nd Shift Supervisor

Role Summary

The 2nd Shift Manufacturing Supervisor leads daily for our 2nd shift, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals are met while building a high-performing, engaged team. This leader drives standard work, coordinates resources across cells (e.g., CNC machining, grinding, inspection, secondary ops), and models a results-driven, people-first culture.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of leads and operators; conduct daily stand-ups, Gemba walks, and regular 1:1s.
• Set clear performance expectations; give timely feedback, recognition, and corrective coaching.
• Build a reliable staffing plan: coordinate assignments, breaks, rotations, and cross-training to cover demand.
• Foster an inclusive, respectful environment for a diverse workforce (including ESL team members).
• Upholds company policies and values.

The 2nd Shift Manufacturing Supervisor leads daily for our 2nd shift, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals are met while building a high-performing, engaged team. This leader drives standard work, coordinates resources across cells (e.g., CNC machining, grinding, inspection, secondary ops), and models a results-driven, people-first culture.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of leads and operators; conduct daily stand-ups, Gemba walks, and regular 1:1s.
• Set clear performance expectations; give timely feedback, recognition, and corrective coaching.
• Build a reliable staffing plan: coordinate assignments, breaks, rotations, and cross-training to cover demand.
• Foster an inclusive, respectful environment for a diverse workforce (including ESL team members).
• Upholds company policies and values.

• Own daily safety: enforce PPE/housekeeping, safe machine operation, and incident/near-miss reporting.
• Ensure work is performed to spec: drawings, routings, and control plans; support in-process inspections.
• Partner with Quality to contain defects, complete 8D/5-Why investigations, and prevent recurrence.
• Support compliance with ISO/AS quality systems and applicable customer/regulatory requirements.

• Translate the production schedule into actionable plans by cell/line; balance labor and machine capacity.
• Monitor hour-by-hour performance and remove roadblocks to hit OEE, throughput, and on-time delivery targets.
• Escalate equipment downtime; coordinate with Maintenance for rapid response and preventive maintenance windows.
• Verify material availability and WIP flow; maintain accurate transactions and FIFO discipline.

• Drive daily problem solving and kaizen: waste walks, SMED/setup reduction, visual management, 5S.
• Standardize best practices into work instructions; ensure training and certification are kept current.
• Use data (scrap, rework, cycle times, labor efficiency) to prioritize improvements and sustain results.

• Use ERP/MES to manage labor reporting, dispatch lists, inventory moves, and schedule attainment.
• Provide clear shift handoffs and concise status updates to leadership.

• Safety: TRIR/near-miss participation, 5S audit scores
• Quality:
  First-pass yield, scrap/rework rates, customer rejects
• Delivery:
  Schedule attainment, on-time to promise, queue/backlog health
• Productivity:
  Labor efficiency, OEE/uptime, setup time reduction
• People:
  Turnover, attendance, training/cross-skill coverage, engagement indicators

5+ years in high-volume precision manufacturing; 2+ years leading teams in a multi-cell environment.

• Working knowledge of CNC machining and/or grinding; comfortable reading blueprints and using basic metrology.
• Manufacturing, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with lean/continuous…