Manufacturing Manager

Uniloy INC•Raisin Township, MI

14d•$100,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

Lead the strategy and daily operations of a low-volume, high-mix machine shop, ensuring safe, cost-effective, high-quality, and on-time production. This hands-on role advances Lean continuous improvement and aligns people, processes, and resources with customer, operational, and financial objectives. The role directs production planning, scheduling, staffing, workflow, and resource allocation; develops personnel; provides technical leadership in CNC machining; coordinates equipment maintenance and investments; manages inventories and supplier performance; and collaborates across departments to support order execution. It uses production data to monitor performance and implement corrective actions. Success includes strong safety, quality, and delivery performance; reduced lead times, setup times, scrap, and waste; improved equipment and labor utilization; and a flexible, cross-trained team. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering or Operations Management preferred; an associate degree, technical credential, or equivalent relevant experience is considered.
Ten or more years of progressive manufacturing experience, including at least five years leading people and operations in a low-volume, high-mix, job-shop, precision-machining, or comparable environment.
Demonstrated success improving safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost in an onsite production environment.
Substantial experience with CNC machining, milling, programming, tooling, work holding, and preventive maintenance.
Experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, kaizen, setup-reduction, and waste-reduction methods.
Working knowledge of ISO-based quality systems and applicable safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
Experience with budgeting, capacity planning, capital justification, and operational reporting.
Strong leadership, coaching, change-management, conflict-resolution, and team-development skills in a hands-on production environment.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, GD&T, technical specifications, work orders, and process documentation and provide manufacturability feedback.
Ability to manage complex schedules, competing priorities, multiple work orders, urgent requests, and changing operational demands across shifts.
Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel and the ability to use operational data to make decisions.
Excellent communication, presentation, analytical, organizational, project-management, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering or Operations Management.
Familiarity with CAD/CAM and CNC programming systems, common machine controls, and machining materials.

Responsibilities

Help define and execute short- and long-term manufacturing strategies aligned with business objectives.
Direct daily machine-shop operations, including production planning, scheduling, job priorities, staffing, workflow, and resource allocation.
Adjust production schedules and resources to reduce bottlenecks and lead times while meeting customer delivery commitments.
Ensure work meets safety, quality, customer, drawing, regulatory, and schedule requirements; establish and enforce standard work and shop policies.
Train, coach, cross-train, supervise, and evaluate shop personnel while fostering accountability, teamwork, problem solving, and continuous improvement.
Apply Lean and Six Sigma methods, including 5S, SMED, standard work, and kaizen, to improve flow, productivity, setup and cycle times, quality, and cost.
Provide technical leadership for CNC machining, programming, milling, tooling, work holding, troubleshooting, and manufacturability.
Review work orders, drawings, specifications, and technical documentation; partner with Engineering on process design, tooling, gauging, and production readiness.
Evaluate and justify capital equipment, automation, machine-monitoring, scheduling, and capacity investments.
Coordinate preventive maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and maintenance records to maximize equipment availability and minimize downtime.
Manage inventories of raw material, tooling, supplies, and equipment, and monitor supplier and outside-service performance.
Collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, and Customer Service to support order execution and resolve risks.
Use production data and reporting systems to track safety, quality, delivery, cost, scrap, rework, setup and cycle time, lead time, equipment uptime, and labor utilization; implement corrective actions as needed.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Develop a flexible, cross-trained team capable of responding to changing priorities and improve safety, quality, on-time performance, lead time, setup time, scrap, waste, and equipment and labor utilization.