Senior Supervisor, Machine Shop
manufacturing › Machine Shop · M2 — M2 — Manager II · Management
Oversees multiple machining shifts or cells, ensuring CNC and robotic equipment output meets quality, schedule, and safety targets through direct supervision of lead operators and supervisors.
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What this role is
Oversees multiple machining shifts or cells, ensuring CNC and robotic equipment output meets quality, schedule, and safety targets through direct supervision of lead operators and supervisors. At the Manager II (M2) level, the role owns an established team or sub-function, cross-project coordination and priorities, and drives group delivery and development. Manages a team; sometimes manages leads.
What this level does
- Leads a skilled team of machinists and junior leads, owning tactical output of a machining cell across manual and CNC operations
- Makes setup and process judgments within known factors — selecting tooling and machining resources and approving speeds/feeds when a job deviates from the standard sheet
- Coordinates cross-functionally with maintenance, quality, and material handling to keep the cell supplied and machines available
- Owns short-term schedule and scrap/rework outcomes for the cell, tracking part throughput against commitments
- Verifies GD&T interpretation and CNC program edits (G-code) from the team before parts are released to the next operation
- Knowledge applied
- Applies broader machining and CNC judgment to lead a skilled cell, approving tooling and speed/feed choices within known factors.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Exercises judgment on setup and process deviations within familiar parameters across manual and CNC work.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Cross-functional cooperation with maintenance, quality, and material handling to keep the cell running.
- Typical experience
- 2–5 years in team leadership or specialist machining/CNC roles.
Skills at this level
- Machine tool operation (mechanical skills)
- — Directs and validates operation of milling machines, lathes, grinders, laser and water jetting machines, wire EDM, and other machine tools across a shop.
- Precision measurement and GD&T
- — Governs accurate measurement of machined parts to within .0001 of an inch and enforces geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in inspection practice.
- Tooling knowledge and process selection
- — Sets standards for good manufacturing practice and for selecting tooling and machining resources to produce parts efficiently and to spec.
- Blueprint and design-data analysis
- — Interprets drawings, blueprints, models, and design data to confirm part dimensions, tool selection, machine speeds, and feed rates before production.
- CNC programming (G-code) and CAM strategy
- — Oversees development, writing, and fine-tuning of CNC machine code in G-code and CAD/CAM software, setting programming standards across the shop.
- Machining mathematics
- — Applies and verifies calculations of speeds, feeds, and dimensions that drive machining setup decisions.
- Manufacturing process improvement
- — Owns improvement of entire machining processes and shop-wide capability rather than the running of individual machines.
- Shop capacity and budget management
- — Plans machining capacity across machine types and manages departmental operating and capital budgets against demand.
- Machining workforce leadership
- — Builds machinist capability and staffs, coaches, and directs machining teams from cell leads to department managers.
- Machining capital equipment strategy
- — Sets direction on acquisition of CNC, laser/water-jet, wire EDM, and metrology assets to advance shop process capability.
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