Weekend Shift, Machine Shop Supervisor

The Weekend Shift, Machine Shop Supervisor is responsible for day-to-day execution, safety, quality, and output for an assigned manufacturing area. This role leads a team of technicians, machinists and support staff to ensure component level production targets and related work center throughputs are completed on time and to specification, and drives improvements in processes, training, and tooling. The supervisor partners closely with engineering, planning, quality, and program management to meet schedule, cost, and quality targets. 

Essential Responsibilities 

• Lead our weekend shift team, including daily task assignment, priority setting, and troubleshooting.  

• Ensure manufacturing, build, assembly, integration, and test activities are executed per drawings, work instructions, and specifications.  

• Run daily meetings to review safety, priorities, progress, and issues.  

• Monitor work-in-progress; remove blockers and escalate issues to engineering, quality, or management as needed.  

• Work with planning/scheduling to translate production plans into executable workloads.  

• Balance resources within the production area to meet milestones and commitments.  

• Provide clear status updates and completion forecasts to stakeholders.  

• Enforce adherence to procedures, work instructions, travelers/routers, and inspection requirements.  

• Support root cause analysis and corrective actions for nonconformances, test failures, and rework.  

• Ensure accurate documentation of builds, deviations, rework, and test results in company systems.  

• Promote a strong safety culture, including PPE compliance and safe use of tools and equipment.  

• Maintain a clean, organized, and efficient work area (e.g., 5S).  

• Participate in safety audits, incident investigations, and hazard assessments.  

• Assess technician skills and assign work accordingly; develop cross-training across products and processes.  

• Ensure team members are properly trained and certified for the tasks they perform.  

• Provide coaching and performance input; support hiring, onboarding, and retention.  

• Identify opportunities to improve work flow, reduce cycle time, and increase reliability.  

• Implement and sustain standard work, visual controls, and improvements to tooling, fixtures, and documentation.  

• Capture lessons learned from production and development tasks and coordinate improvements with engineering.  

• Serve as the primary operations contact for the production area.  
  
  
• Coordinate with engineering, quality, supply chain, and other operations teams for issues, materials, inspections, and shared resources. 
  
  
• Conduct and deliver employee performance evaluations.
  
  
• Provide recommendations regarding hiring, termination and other employment decisions.
  
  
• Coach, mentor, and administer appropriate corrective or disciplinary action to team members.

Required Qualifications 

• 5–10 years of experience in manufacturing, assembly, or test operations.  

• 1–3 years in a lead or supervisory role.  

• Hands-on experience with complex mechanical, electrical, or integrated systems.  

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, schematics, and work instructions.  

• Familiarity with basic quality tools (e.g., NCRs, RCAs, CAPAs) and structured problem solving.  </