SUMMARY OF POSITION
Provide supervision and direction to employees to ensure successful completion of assigned duties and tasks while adhering to department safety protocol. Responsible for implementing a driven, team-oriented culture, which embraces continuous improvements and ensures across the board operational and process excellence in all areas.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Supervise and manage activities directly related to daily business and department needs.
• Develop, analyze, and deliver simple to complex information to direct reports.
• Complete daily Task list with 3-week milestones.
• Effectively communicate daily schedules, goals, quality issues/ concerns between shifts to ensure customer expectations are met.
• Provide mentoring, leadership, and direction to employees under the lead’s supervision.
• Ensure individuals receive job-specific training and make sure personnel are compliant with all applicable training requirements.
• Assign work assignments based on daily department needs, ensure quality products are produced and successfully achieve department metrics.
• Ensure and enforce second review of large or complex rigging set ups.
• Assisting management in establishing and achieving program goals and objectives for the department including Continuous Improvement projects
• Identify and elevate issues to management.
• Facilitate assessment of team’s knowledge, skill, and ability for accomplishing project/tasks and provide necessary on-the-job training, coaching, mentoring.
• Build, Assemble, and revise fixtures, jigs, gauges, hand applies and tooling and when needed.
• Interpretation of blueprints, Model Based Definition information, sketches, and specifications.
• Review of engineering information, tool design drawings and customer requirements to determine methods and sequence of operations to fabricate tools.
• Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Any additional duties reasonably assigned by management.

REQUIRED SKILLS, EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Any combination of education and experience providing the required skill and knowledge for successful job performance will be considered. Typical qualifications would be:

• High School diploma or GED.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment, experience with conventional machines, jig, and fixture manufacturing.
• 3 years’ experience leading/supervising employees in a manufacturing environment strongly preferred.
• This position must meet Export Control compliance requirements, therefore a “US Person” as defined by 22.C.F.R. § is required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to effectively handle tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to work varied shifts, overtime, and weekends when necessary.
• Has confidence in leading processes, projects and looks for opportunities.
• Ability to work with management team to help drive performance.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
Yes
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
Up to 10%.
Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some projects may require more out-of-the-area and overnight travel.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Working conditions described here are representative of those that may be experienced by an employee daily while performing the functions of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes, and airborne particles.
• The employee may be exposed to vibration.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• May be required to work weekends to meet department and business demands.
• Work with safe manufacturing processes and understanding that Safety glasses are mandatory in the manufacturing area.
• Knows that safety shoes are mandatory in the manufacturing area.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

• Must be able to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Must be able to see, talk, hear, touch, feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Must be able to frequently walk & stand for short periods of time.
• Must be able to lift and move up to 35 pounds, occasionally lift and move objects up to 50lbs.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Employment is contingent upon successfully passing an employee reference check, criminal background check, and drug screening.
This position requires use of information that is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e., 'Green Card Holder').
ABOUT US
Ascent Aerospace is a world renowned, single-source provider of production and automated assembly systems for the aerospace, defense, and space industries. As the largest tooling group, Ascent produces a full suite of both mold and assembly tooling required for the aerospace manufacturing market, including the largest invar molds ever made for aerospace. As an automation provider and production system integrator, Ascent work with customers to develop their project and see it through from process engineering, to build and installation to ensure it is an efficient and cost-effective solution.
Ascent Aerospace is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan or policy statement, please call toll-free 1 586-726-0500. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please call toll-free 1 586-726-0500.