Machine Shop Manager
manufacturing › Machine Shop · M3 — M3 — Senior Manager · Management
Manages the machine shop team and daily operations of CNC and robotic machining equipment.
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What this role is
Manages the machine shop team and daily operations of CNC and robotic machining equipment. At the Senior Manager (M3) level, the role owns multiple teams or a sub-function, multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs, and drives sub-function outcomes. Manages managers and/or several teams.
What this level does
- Manages a machine shop department, responsible for its operations and budget across CNC and manual machining
- Evaluates recurring quality and productivity trends across diverse jobs, directing process improvements beyond running individual machines
- May lead junior leads and cross-functional professionals in tooling, CNC programming, and inspection
- Sets and enforces machining standards, GD&T inspection practice, and tool/CAM resource selection for the department
- Owns capacity planning for the department — balancing mill, lathe, grinder, laser/water-jet, and wire EDM workloads against demand
- Knowledge applied
- Applies departmental process knowledge to evaluate trends and improve machining processes beyond individual machines.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses diverse machining issues, evaluating quality and productivity trends to direct process changes.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Leads a functional machining team and works with engineering, quality, and planning on department outcomes.
- Typical experience
- 5–7+ years managing machining professionals and department budgets.
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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