CNC Lead - Night Shift in Morgan Hill, California at Kalman Manufacturing Inc

CNC Lead - Night Shift - Lathes and Mills (Morgan Hill)

POSITION SUMMARY: Kalman Manufacturing is a CNC machine shop seeking a lead for our night shift Lathe/Mill operations. This position is responsible for leading the production team, supporting employees, and ensuring parts are produced safely, efficiently, and on schedule while meeting quality requirements.

The lead will assign work, monitor production, communicate priorities, and help operators resolve issues that affect safety, quality, or productivity. A key part of the role is developing the team through hands-on training, coaching, performance feedback, and support for employees as they build their skills and take on greater responsibilities.

The lead will work closely with Quality, Engineering, Planning, and production management to meet customer delivery requirements and department goals. The position will also support the introduction of new parts, assist with machine setups when needed, and identify opportunities to improve processes, communication, and overall department performance.

This is a visible leadership position with an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the team and the business.

Strong performers will have opportunities for increased responsibility and career advancement.

STRUCTURE: This position reports to the Production Manager

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
• High School Graduate or GED equivalent
• 5 years of experience with Lathe/ mill turn setup operations
• Demonstrated capability to read and understand blueprints, including GD&T
• Ability to lead small teams of operators, setup machinists and other skilled labor
• Expertise in manual inspection to validate parts out of setups without resorting to a CMM
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Necessary levels of computer and math skills to be able to compute production and setup cycle times, scrap rates, and other manufacturing floor metrics
• Enthusiastic desire to help drive production effort and capability of a company to best in class

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s in mechanical or manufacturing engineering, or machine tool technology or related field
• Bilingual – English and Spanish
• 10 years of experience with lathe / mill setup operations
• Demonstrated experience supervising a team up to ten employees in manufacturing operations.
• Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement projects to implementation.

OTHER DUTIES: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

WHY JOIN US:
Our employees enjoy a great reverse commute to our clean Morgan Hill facility!

Night Shift employees work Monday through Thursday 4:00PM to 2:00AM and enjoy 3 day weekends!
All night shift employees receive a PAID MEAL BREAK each shift!

We offer excellent benefits!

95% of the employee health premium is PAID (on a silver health plan) 40% contribution for dependents

401(k) with matching, PAID VACATION, PAID HOLIDAYS

All in a friendly, family-owned, professional and clean work environment.