Manufacturing Manager

Job Summary:

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.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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.