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Manufacturing Supervisor
Job Title: Manufacturing Supervisor
Shift(s): 1st and 3rd Shift
Supervisor: Business Unit Manager
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt/Hourly
Prepared Date: 10/8/2025
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- Manages labor and machine capacity to obtain expected throughput, costs, quality, and schedules adherence.
- Organizes and assigns work (labor, machines), utilizing available skills, knowledge, experience, and machine manufacturing strategies.
- Fosters teamwork and builds/maintains effective teams.
- Ensures availability of machine capacity by pro-actively addressing fixture and/or machine problems or areas of opportunities to improve.
- Provides systematic onboarding procedure, continuous training, and cross-qualification to develop and maintain expert skill levels, holds people accountable to follow instruction, and preferably can provide technical guidance.
- Keeps up to date documentation.
- Maintains and improves commodity KPIs.
- Accountable for booking accuracy and Tier 1 boards.
- Leads continuous improvement efforts such as Kaizen events, Machine TPM, and 5S initiatives.
- Supports other departments with increasing efficiency, cost reduction, new tooling and methods, capacity planning, scheduling, machine repairing, and maintenance.
- Works closely with the planning team regarding scheduling, balancing of demand vs capacity, prioritization, raw material demand, and outside vendor processes.
- Maintains conformance with Moeller Aerospace employee and safety rules and regulations, issues policy violation warnings, and administers approved disciplinary measures when necessary.
- Ensures effective set-up procedures.
This is intended to give an overview of the position and is not an exhaustive list. Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements- Demonstrated leadership experience.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Teams.
- Proficiency with ERP software (Syteline).
- Ability to perform basic shop math functions.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Must be able to regularly lift up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift to 50 pounds.
- Must be able to stand for long periods of time in a manufacturing environment.
- Preferred technical knowledge of CNC machining processes including troubleshooting, setups, operations, and maintenance.
- Preferred understanding of CMM machines and programming.
- Knowledge of troubleshooting techniques using 8D and 5Y methodologies.
- Knowledge of quality standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, AS 9100, etc.
Education and/or Experience- Associates/Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
KPI System Supervisor/Commodity Manager
Personnel:- Labor Utilization (% hours on customer jobs vs total attendance time).
- Hours (Absolute) on jobs per employee previous day.
- Attendance rate (%) to plan.
Gate 1: Manufacturing- Gate “On Time Delivery”
- Available Capacity (hours and % to plan)
- Rates/throughput according to budget requirements (Tier 1)
- First time yield
Due to U.S. Government regulations pertaining to the nature of this work, all candidates must be a U.S. person (i.e., U.S. citizen or possess a valid Green Card) and we will require proof of status prior to employment.
We are a Drug Free Workplace where all new team members are subject to pre-employment drug testing for the following controlled substances: marijuana, cocaine, PCP, amphetamines, and opioids as policy dictates.
