Millwork Programming and Machining Lead

💡 Program the Details. Lead the Process. Build Something Exceptional. Join Concepts in Millwork as our Millwork Programming and Machining Lead!

Are you skilled at turning complex designs into precise, production-ready solutions? We’re looking for a hands-on, detail-oriented leader who can bridge the gap between engineering and machining, ensuring our custom millwork moves seamlessly from design to fabrication. This role is an opportunity to combine technical expertise, problem-solving, and leadership to bring exceptional craftsmanship to life.

At Concepts in Millwork, our work is about more than creating custom interiors. It’s about building lasting relationships, developing our people, and delivering on the promises we make. Our six core values—Commitment, Respect, Integrity, Service Excellence, Positivity, and Innovation—guide how we work, lead, and grow together.

If you’re ready to put your expertise to work, help drive innovation, and lead a team committed to quality and precision, we’d love to hear from you.

Build your future with Concepts in Millwork, where we’re transforming lives and interior spaces.

Position Summary: The Programming and Machining Lead is a dual-responsibility, working lead position. The employee serves as a primary Programmer and Machinist while simultaneously driving daily workflow, scheduling, and training. This role supports the Production Manager and Shop Foreman by supervising the programming and machinery department, assigning and directing daily work, and assisting with team training and performance input.

The Lead ensures smooth, efficient operations, converting engineering drawings into precise manufacturing code and overseeing physical production on shop machinery. This role is directly accountable for driving departmental results in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Morale through servant leadership, mentorship, and technical expertise.

💼 What You’ll Be Doing
1. Departmental Leadership & Supervisory Support

• Supervision & Coaching: Provide direct supervision, coaching, and floor guidance to the Programming and Machining team.
• Professional Conduct: Maintain a high level of professionalism, discretion, and mature communication; establish clear professional boundaries and lead by example.
• LEAN & Continuous Improvement: Execute the Managing Daily Improvement (MDI) strategy, meet established expectations, and offer efficiency recommendations to the Shop Foreman.
• Inter-departmental Coordination: Coordinate fluidly with the assembly floor, material handlers, and inventory clerks to ensure raw materials and programmed parts are staged smoothly.

• Daily Scheduling: Map out, organize, and adjust daily team assignments, project priorities, and machine routing throughout the shift based on production timelines.
• Job Readiness: Track exactly what project each team member is working on, ensuring the next assignment or nested program is ready before current tasks are finished.
• Machine Distribution: Strategically load work across primary assets—including the CNC machines, beam saws, and edge banders—to prevent production bottlenecks.

• Technical Mentorship: Lead the onboarding and technical skills training for new and existing operators on software and physical machinery.
• Problem Solving & Escalation: Act as the first line of defense for technical questions regarding machining mistakes, programming errors, or tooling issues.
• Standards Enforcement: Educate the team on Concepts’ construction practices, raw materials, tooling capabilities, and engineering standards.

• Code Generation: Create all required programming and part nested patterns for casework and millwork items using Microvellum, Cut-Rite, WoodWop, AutoCAD, or other provided software.
• Document Packages: Generate accurate lay-up lists, edgeband take-offs, and optimized cut lists via Microvellum to push out to the manufacturing floor.
• Pre-Production Review: Thoroughly audit and cross-verify shop drawings, plan elevations, detail views, part dimensions, and nested programs for completeness and accuracy prior to releasing them to the machines.

• Machine Operations: Set up, calibrate, and safely operate key machinery including CNC machines, beam saws, edge banders, and other related machining department equipment.
• Quality Assurance (QC): Actively verify dimensions and edge treatments on processed parts. Gather and review QC sheets from team members as components finish machining to ensure strict quality benchmarks are met.
• Safety & 5S Maintenance: Maintain a pristine, organized, and hazard-free machinery footprint. Monitor and coordinate regular scrap removal, dust-collection health, and floor sweeping.

🌟 What Makes You a Great Fit

• Experience: Minimum five (5) years of experience in production machine operation, CNC setup, and technical automated programming preferred.
• Software Proficiency: Strong proficiency using AutoCAD, Microvellum, Cut-Rite, and/or WoodWop. Competence in Microsoft Excel.
• Machinery Expertise: Direct, proven experience setting up, calibrating, tooling, and operating commercial CNC machinery, beam/panel saws, and edgebanders.
• Leadership Aptitude: Prior leadership experience or a demonstrated ability to coach, train, assign work, and handle workflow conflicts professionally.
• Methodologies: Strong knowledge of LEAN Manufacturing and 5S principles is preferred.
• Core Competencies: High attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills under tight deadlines, and excellent verbal and written communication.

Job Details

• 💰 Salary: $26-$32 Hourly commensurate with experience.
• Job Type: Full-time, Monday–Friday, 7:00am-4:00pm (With overtime as needed).
• Application Window is Expected to Close on 10/16/2026

🎁 Why You’ll Love Working with Us

• 🏥 Comprehensive Benefits Package (some benefits require a brief waiting period):
  • 100% employer-paid base medical coverage for employees
  • Employer-sponsored life insurance for employees & dependents
  • Voluntary life, accident, and dental insurance
  • Voluntary LTD, Hospital Confinement and Critical Illness insurance
  • FSA, PTO, paid holidays, and 401k
• 🎉 Employee-Centric Perks: Team lunches, fun events, and recognition programs that celebrate YOU.

• 📚 Growth-Focused Culture: Opportunities to lead, learn, and grow in a supportive environment

• Family Atmosphere: We collaborate, celebrate wins, and support each other every day.

• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to stand and walk for a significant portion of the shift (up to 100% depending on machinery demands). Regularly required to talk, hear, reach, bend, stoop, or kneel. Must be capable of lifting and moving weights up to 50 pounds using proper lifting techniques; requires seeking assistance for loads exceeding this limit.
• Work Environment: Splits time between a technical desk/computer station and the active manufacturing floor. Exposure to moving machinery and airborne contaminants (mainly wood dust) in a temperature-controlled plant environment. Noise levels range from low to high; appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is provided and required.

Salary : $26 - $32