Shift Lead - Manufacturing Operations
About The Position
Atoms is seeking a Shift Lead to oversee the daily operations of their manufacturing floor and manage a team of engineering technicians. This role involves assigning tasks, resolving issues in real-time, and ensuring production schedules for assembly, quality control, and shipping are met. The Shift Lead will act as a liaison between the technician team and mechanical/electrical engineering, translating priorities into actionable plans, identifying potential risks, and mentoring technicians. This is a full-time, hands-on, in-person leadership position requiring active floor presence.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on hardware assembly or fabrication experience, including 1+ years leading or supervising a team.
- Track record of managing people in a fast-paced, hands-on manufacturing or hardware environment.
- Comfortable working with unstructured problems and shifting priorities alongside engineering teams.
- Strong communicator — can translate engineering priorities into a clear daily plan for a technician team, and surface issues up to engineering.
- Must be able to safely lift up to 50lbs and stand for long periods of time.
- Action-oriented, extremely organized, mechanically inclined, high attention to detail.
- Genuine interest in developing people, not just managing output.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with wire harness assembly, PCB assembly, or CAD software (Solidworks or similar) is a plus.
- Command line or Linux experience a plus.
Responsibilities
- Manage and schedule a team of engineering technicians across shifts, balancing workload against production priorities.
- Own the daily production plan: sequence work across computer assembly, cable harnesses, PCB assembly, and 3D printing to hit build targets.
- Coach, train, and ramp technicians — set expectations, give real-time feedback, and support career growth into senior technician or specialist tracks.
- Partner closely with mechanical and electrical engineering to resolve build issues, assembly documentation gaps, and design-for-manufacturing feedback.
- Monitor quality across finished product and in-progress builds; escalate systemic issues to engineering before they scale.
- Keep the shop space safe, clean, and organized, and enforce safety and quality standards across the shift.
- Own shift-level reporting: throughput, quality issues, blockers, and staffing needs.
- Step in on the tools when needed — this role stays close to the work, not above it.
- Help build out shift processes and documentation as the team scales.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options)
- Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term)
- Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity
- Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children
- Pet insurance discount (Fetch)
- 401(k)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Paid Vacation Time (1h for every 26h worked)
- 8 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time
- Paid Bereavement leave
- Paid Parental Leave.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
