# Hypersonics Machining Manager

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $116,350.00 - $210,325.00
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Leidos' Defense Manufacturing Team is seeking a Hypersonics Machining Manager to lead the establishment of a new machining facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The Machining Manager is responsible for activating, establishing, and leading a high-performing machining operation supporting future production requirements.

**Essential Functions**

- Facility Activation & Production Readiness: Lead facility activation and machining operation start-up, including equipment installation, commissioning, qualification, and production release.

- Develop and execute integrated readiness plans covering equipment, tooling, fixturing, CNC programming, processes, staffing, training, material flow, inspection, and production controls.

- Establish machining cells, work centers, material flow, standard work, and visual management.

- Identify and resolve facility, equipment, tooling, workforce, and process constraints impacting production readiness and ramp-up.

- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Facilities, EHS, and Program Management to achieve manufacturing milestones.

**Machining & Technical Leadership**

- Provide operational and technical leadership for CNC machining, programming, tooling, work holding, and process optimization.

- Apply demonstrated expertise in non-metallic machining to enable an aggressive equipment activation and qualification timeline.

- Partner with CNC programming and Manufacturing Engineering to review and optimize CNC programs and machining processes to improve cycle time, tool life, quality, and equipment utilization.

- Troubleshoot complex machining and process issues and coordinate solutions with machinists and the technical support team.

- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality to establish machining standards, work instructions, setup procedures, and process documentation.

**Safety, Quality, Cost & Delivery**

- Own and continuously improve SQCD performance for the machining organization.

- Establish a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with EHS requirements and machine safety standards.

- Drive first-time-right manufacturing and reduction of scrap, rework, defects, and process variation.

- Manage labor, tooling, consumables, scrap, equipment utilization, and other manufacturing costs.

- Establish and monitor metrics including OEE, utilization, cycle time, labor efficiency, scrap, rework, and schedule performance.

- Own production execution and ensure machining capacity and output support program schedules and customer commitments.

- Lead structured problem solving and continuous-improvement initiatives.

**People & Organization Leadership**

- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of machinists, CNC programmers, leads, supervisors, and manufacturing personnel.

- Establish workforce plans, training requirements, and qualification processes to support facility activation and production ramp.

- Recruit, develop, and retain machining talent.

- Promote a culture of accountability, technical excellence, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

- Maintain a visible, hands-on leadership presence on the manufacturing floor.

**Key Performance Expectations**

- The successful candidate will establish a safe, capable, scalable, and production-ready machining operation, with measurable improvement in:

- Facility and equipment readiness

- Production capacity and utilization

- CNC process stability and capability

- Schedule and delivery performance

- First-pass yield and quality

- Scrap and rework

- Labor and manufacturing cost

- OEE and equipment effectiveness

- Workforce capability and staffing readiness

- Overall SQCD performance

## Skills

### Required
- CNC machining
- non-metallic machining
- manufacturing operations leadership
- Lean Manufacturing
- continuous improvement
- problem-solving
- communication
- organizational
- leadership

### Nice to have
- composite or non-metallic materials
- multi-axis CNC machining
- Mastercam
- NX CAM
- GibbsCAM
- Fusion
- ERP/MRP
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- AS9100
- ISO 9001

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