Machining Supervisor

About the role
Our client designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the long-term goal of enabling human life on Mars. This role supports the Starship Components Machining organization in Hawthorne, California.

Lead the second-shift Starship machining operation responsible for critical valve and flow-control components. The supervisor will develop a team of machinists and technicians, commission a new machine shop, drive production performance, and maintain uncompromising safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, mentor, and supervise as many as 25 machinists and technicians.
• Assign daily work and provide frequent performance and development feedback.
• Track utilization, cycle time, yield, delivery, and lights-out manufacturing metrics.
• Build and maintain the production schedule required by downstream assembly teams.
• Own shop-floor safety, training, PPE compliance, and equipment and tooling health.
• Support commissioning CNC machines and cleaning equipment in a new shop.
• Transition parts and programs from prove-out into repeatable high-volume production.
• Drive continuous improvement, 5S, and tooling-inventory discipline.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Four or more years in manufacturing.
• Five or more years as a CNC machinist and three or more years in manufacturing leadership are preferred.
• Strong communication and machining-process troubleshooting skills.