Job Description

**Job Title:

**Mill Machinist Supervisor Lead – Day Shift

**Department: Production

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**Classification: Non-Exempt

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**Reports To: Manufacturing Manager

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Summary/Objective: The Mill Machinist Supervisor Lead – Day Shift is responsible for supervising the production flow in the mill area work-centers by providing support, coaching, and motivation to mill operator machinists. Directs work assignments for day shift as well as production priorities for night and weekend shifts. Provides innovative solutions to improve plant efficiency, production standards, and quality requirements.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Implements planned work-center scheduling

• Offers solutions and alternatives to scheduling and shop load challenges

• Monitors operator performance to inspection criteria

• Monitors operator performance to time standards

• Enforces all operator safety requirements

• Coaches and trains operators for improvement

• Implements company approved guidelines and processes

• Interacts closely and effectively with engineering and quality departments

• Reads and interprets blueprints

• Measures, examines and tests finished parts in order to detect compliance to specifications using precision instruments such as micrometers

• Assures operators are maintaining equipment to company expectations

• Sets and maintains 5S principles and expectations to all operators

• Provides recommendations to improve plant efficiency

• Manages department payroll to approved budget guidelines

  and manages timekeeping in both the payroll system and the ERP system

• Reports up to management job status, production efficiency, quality issues, and engineering issues

• Other responsibilities as deemed appropriate

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**Competencies:

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• Advance Blueprint reading

• Controller Program knowledge

• Understanding of machining principles

• Strong troubleshooting ability and critical thinking skills

• Proficiency with manual measuring devices such as micrometers and calipers

• Ability to supervise, coach, discipline, and motivate multiple personality types

• Ability to multi-task

• Understanding of manufacturing key performance indicators

• Ability to communicate with multiple experience levels of employees

• Ability to communicate with multiple departments

• Multiple machine and controller knowledge

• Ability to interpret and analyze performance data

Supervisory Responsibility

This position supervises machine operators on the day shift.

Participates in selection of staff as well as manages performance.

Minimum Qualifications

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• Ten years’ experience of CNC set-up for both lathes and mills up to 5-axis

• Three / Five years minimum lead / supervisory experience

• High school diploma / GED

**Physical Demands:

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The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand for long periods of time; walk; use hands to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

This position requires the ability to lift products and supplies, up to 50 pounds. May be subject to atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors and dust.

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**Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

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This is a full-time position, and hours of work and days are Monday through Thursday, 5:30 am to 2:00 pm

**Other Duties

**Please note 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 position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.