Chief Manufacturing Officer
manufacturing › Machine Shop · E3 — E3 — Vice President · Executive
Executive responsible for all machining, automation, and production operations across the organization.
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What this role is
Executive responsible for all machining, automation, and production operations across the organization. At the Vice President (E3) level, the role owns a division, market and competitive strategy, and drives division-wide. Leads a division's leadership team.
What this level does
- Leads machining as a major business area (large division or regional manufacturing base) through senior executives, carrying enterprise-level risk for machined-part supply to critical programs
- Shapes the corporate machining strategy — network footprint, make-vs-buy, precision-capability investment, and technology roadmap for CNC/CAM and automation across the enterprise
- Represents the machining function externally with major customers, tooling/machine-tool partners, and regulators on precision, quality, and delivery commitments
- Governs the quality and tolerance-assurance system at scale, ensuring inspection and CAPA-driven process control protect the enterprise from field failures and warranty exposure
- Sets multi-year capital allocation for machine tools, fixturing, and workforce development to sustain competitive precision-manufacturing capability
- Knowledge applied
- Shapes corporate machining strategy for a large division or region — network footprint, precision-capability investment, and CNC/CAM/automation roadmap.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Manages enterprise-level risk to machined-part supply for critical programs and drives critical strategic impact through multi-year capability and quality decisions.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Represents machining externally with major customers, machine-tool/tooling partners, and regulators, and participates in enterprise strategy.
- Typical experience
- 15–20+ years, including enterprise-impact experience leading a large division or regional manufacturing base.
Skills at this level
- CNC/CAM Machining Strategy
- — Sets enterprise-level standards for generating and optimizing G-code via CAD/CAM software, governing speeds and feeds, tooling, work holding, and material behavior so machined parts meet spec across shops.
- Fixture and Tooling Portfolio Management
- — Directs tooling-inventory and fixture-design strategy and capital investment across the machining function, ensuring the right cutting tools and work holding are available to hold tight tolerances at scale.
- Manufacturing Process Ownership
- — Owns the machining process chain from blueprint/CAD interpretation through setup, machining, and inspection at the shop or network level, shifting scope from individual machines to the whole process.
- Lean and Six Sigma Program Leadership
- — Institutionalizes continuous-improvement techniques such as lean manufacturing and Six Sigma across machining operations to reset cost, cycle-time, and quality baselines.
- Tolerance and Quality Governance
- — Governs inspection and quality-control systems that verify machined parts meet specifications, using CAPA-driven root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence of tolerance and defect problems.
- Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration
- — Leads the interface with R&D, manufacturing, and fixture-design engineering teams on troubleshooting, process improvement, and design feedback to keep parts manufacturable.
- Machining Talent Development
- — Builds the machinist and machining-leadership pipeline, accounting for the multi-year apprenticeship and 8–10+ year path to expert level and the transition of experienced machinists into leadership and technical-support roles.
- Manufacturing Capital and Footprint Strategy
- — Allocates multi-year capital for machine tools, automation, and shop network footprint, and makes make-vs-buy and capacity decisions that affect manufacturing competitiveness.
- Executive Stakeholder and Board Engagement
- — Represents machining and manufacturing capability to major customers, boards, investors, and industry partners on precision, quality, continuity, and delivery commitments.
- Precision Machining Technical Judgment
- — Applies detail-focused technical judgment — grounded in blueprint reading, applied machining mathematics, and material knowledge — as the ultimate escalation authority on the shop's hardest machining problems.
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