AM Supervisor - Heat Treat, EDM, Bandsaw, Media Blast
About The Position
As an AM Supervisor - Heat Treat, EDM, Bandsaw, Media Blast, you will lead a team of technicians operating a growing fleet of Monolith LPBF additive manufacturing systems. You will own day-to-day heat treat, EDM, bandsaw, and media blast operations; improve equipment utilization; develop technical talent; and establish the operational discipline needed to deliver consistent, certifiable production at scale. This is a hands-on, highly visible leadership role in a high-reliability, procedure-driven manufacturing environment. The supervisor is accountable for throughput, quality, and safety across post-processing operations, ensuring parts are inspected and qualified before downstream operations. The role builds and develops technician and frontline-leader teams, establishes training and qualification standards, strengthens process robustness and compliance, and drives cost, throughput, and efficiency improvements. It also develops automation and capability roadmaps, evaluates and integrates automation solutions, and leads cross-functional problem solving to address bottlenecks and failure modes. The position is based in a fast-paced, high-mix manufacturing environment with changing priorities and close collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, quality, logistics, and program teams. It requires hands-on shop-floor engagement, strong systems knowledge, and proactive management of scheduling risks while maintaining quality, safety, and efficiency standards. The role may occasionally require extended or weekend hours to meet production deadlines.
Requirements
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
- Proven leadership in high-reliability, high-accountability environments.
- Strong systems-thinking skills and the ability to manage complex, interdependent processes with discipline and precision.
- Demonstrated ability to build teams, enforce standards, and deliver results under pressure.
- High ownership mindset, bias toward action, and commitment to continuous improvement.
- Experience leading operations, maintenance, or production teams in complex technical environments.
- Familiarity with procedure-driven execution, qualification programs, and audit or compliance systems.
- Experience managing risk, driving root-cause resolution, and improving system reliability.
- Ability to lift up to 40 lbs. independently and 50 lbs. with assistance.
Responsibilities
- Be accountable for throughput, quality, and safety across post-processing operations.
- Ensure parts are inspected, qualified, and ready for downstream operations, with no defects escaping.
- Establish objective performance metrics, including internal escape rates, and drive performance toward world-class standards.
- Build, train, and develop technicians and frontline leaders across work centers.
- Establish training and qualification standards aligned with aerospace and defense expectations, and develop bench strength and successors for key roles.
- Improve process robustness across heat treat, media blast, build plate resurfacing, and inspection.
- Ensure adherence to AS9100, military standards, and applicable certification requirements.
- Implement standardized work, controls, audits, and documentation systems.
- Identify and lead cost-reduction initiatives involving labor, equipment utilization, yield, and consumables.
- Develop a pipeline of improvements, execute against ROI targets, and create operational dashboards for data-driven decisions.
- Develop a multi-year roadmap for automation and capability expansion across work centers.
- Evaluate and integrate robotics and automation solutions, including developing business cases.
- Lead media blast automation, build plate resurfacing equipment selection and commissioning, and onboarding processing capabilities for new materials and alloys.
- Identify bottlenecks and failure modes across the processing chain.
- Lead cross-functional problem solving with engineering, quality, and maintenance, and implement durable corrective actions.
- Anticipate and resolve scheduling risks before they affect key deliverables.
- Maintain proactive communication and support continuous improvement while meeting program timelines.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
- Paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown.
- Paid parental leave.
- HMO and Premium PPO health benefit options.
- Company-sponsored life insurance.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
