CNC Machining Supervisor- 1st shift

Cox Machine•Wichita, KS

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The CNC Machining Supervisor (1st shift) is responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling production to ensure efficient, timely, and budget-compliant production of goods that meet quality standards. This role involves directly supervising and coordinating the activities of production staff, managing daily production schedules, and ensuring proper inventory management. The supervisor will oversee the day-to-day workflow, manage production operators to ensure adherence to schedules, handle disciplinary actions, and collaborate with department leaders to improve performance. Key responsibilities include ensuring job reviews and training plans are completed, overseeing 6S activities, and enforcing safety procedures. The position also involves ensuring the production process delivers high-quality products, maintaining appropriate production rates, collaborating with Customer Service and sales to resolve quality concerns, identifying and resolving production bottlenecks, using production planning to limit material shortages, ensuring machinery compliance with standards, communicating risks, resolving issues, preparing staff schedules, acting as a liaison between departments, reviewing and updating policies, ensuring Corrective Action Reports (CARs) are submitted, and directing continuous improvement activities.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent
Minimum of 3 years of knowledge and experience in production and manufacturing processes and techniques

Responsibilities

Oversee the day-to-day workflow of production staff
Manages Production operators to ensure they are working on correct jobs per agreed upon schedules
Handles discipline and termination of employees as needed and in accordance with company policy
Works with department leaders to monitor each department and make recommendations to improve performance that impacts the organization
Ensure job reviews and new hire training plans are completed on time
Oversee and monitor all 6S activities including completion of daily checklists and ensure employees follow all safety procedures and report any violations
Oversee the production process to ensure delivery of high-quality products that meet the customers’ needs
Ensures appropriate production rate to reduce delivery delays
Collaborates with Customer Service and sales departments to identify and resolve quality concerns.
Identifies any bottlenecks or delays in production; ensures necessary labor, materials and other resources are available to relieve production bottlenecks and delays
Uses production planning and scheduling to limit material shortages
Ensures production machinery complies with professional and safety standards
Effectively and clearly communicates potential risks in a timely manner.
Resolve employee, customer, or contractor issues.
Coordinate with internal and external parties to exchange relevant information.
Prepare staff schedules and determine work assignments including timeline completions for projects.
Act as liaison between departments or other groups to improve function, performance, or communication.
Review applicable organizational policies and procedures ensuring accuracy and relevance, communicate said policies and procedures, updating as necessary.
Ensure CAR’s (Corrective Action Reports) are submitted on time with proper resolutions
Direct continuous improvement activities and to project that mindset
Always look for continuous improvement in tooling and processes
Enforce safety and health regulations.
Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as operators, or general production workers.
Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.
Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
Observe work and monitor gauges, dials, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production or processing standards.
Conduct employee training in equipment operations or work and safety procedures or assign employee training to experienced workers.
Interpret specifications, blueprints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.
Review and correct employee’s attendance and hours worked daily
Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
Requisition materials, supplies, equipment parts, or repair services.
Determine standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.
Confer with management or subordinates to resolve worker problems, complaints, or grievances.
Coordinate setting up and adjusting machines and equipment.
Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
Recommend or execute personnel actions, such as hirings, evaluations, or promotions.
Implement corrective actions to address organizational or departmental issues.
Establish departmental responsibilities and coordinate functions.
Ensure efficient collaboration and coordination between relevant departments including procurement, distribution, and management.
Interpret and explain policies, rules, regulations, and document poor performance
Monitor and review the performance of staff
Implement and review standard operating procedures and ensure all procedures are being followed.
Implement and enforce quality control to detect and correct problems
Act as liaison between organization and management