MPI Manufacturing Operations Manager

performance, safety excellence, operational discipline, and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring effective communication and operational continuity across shifts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Operational Leadership & Production Execution

• Lead daily manufacturing operations, across multiple shifts, to ensure safe, stable, and efficient production performance.

• Own execution of production schedules, operational priorities, and recovery plans.

• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor to drive accountability, urgency, and operational discipline ensuring the safety of all team members remains priority.

• Monitor production performance, staffing levels, equipment utilization, workflow constraints, and schedule risks.

• Coordinate rapid response and recovery efforts for downtime, material shortages, equipment failures, quality issues, and staffing challenges.

• Ensure manufacturing activities align with customer requirements, business priorities, and production capacity.

• Ensure compliance with all company safety policies, OSHA requirements, environmental regulations, and operational standards.

• Ensure operator readiness, process capability, and production readiness for new products.

• Support production transition planning and operational readiness activities.

 

Leadership & Workforce Development

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop supervisors, leads, machinists, operators, and production personnel.

• Establish clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, and accountability.

• Conduct routine floor audits, leadership observations, and operational reviews.

• Support workforce planning, onboarding, training, cross-training, succession planning, and performance management.

• Promote a culture centered on safety, teamwork, accountability, communication, and continuous improvement.

 

CNC Manufacturing & Technical Operations

• Oversee CNC machining operations, including workflow scheduling, machine utilization, tooling coordination, and operational efficiency.

• Support CNC programming activities including G-code edits, CAM support, program optimization, and setup improvements.

• Ensure machining processes conform to specifications, drawings, GD&T requirements, and customer expectations.

• Validate manufacturing routings through time studies and process reviews.

Partner with Engineering to develop tooling, fixtures, gauges, and job aids that improve safety, efficiency, repeatability, and manufacturing flexibility.