Manufacturing Supervisor

HEICO Corporation; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Leader Tech in Tampa, FL is seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Supervisor to lead 20–25 employees across EMI shielding production. You will translate the schedule into daily priorities, monitor line performance, and ensure safe, compliant operations in an AS9100/ISO environment.

The role emphasizes coaching, cross-training, maintaining quality records, and driving continuous improvement while coordinating with quality, engineering, and maintenance teams.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• 5+ years of manufacturing experience, including at least 3 years in direct production supervision.
• Experience leading a manufacturing team of 15+ employees preferred.
• Experience in regulated manufacturing environments (aerospace/defense/medical) preferred.
• Experience with ERP and manufacturing systems; SYSPRO and Excel preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate the production schedule into clear daily priorities for staffing, equipment, tooling, materials, and workflow across assigned manufacturing operations.
• Monitor scheduled starts, production output, labor efficiency, WIP, scrap, rework, downtime, attendance, and other KPIs.
• Identify constraints, implement recovery plans and corrective actions.
• Lead, coach, develop, and cross-train approximately 20–25 employees while maintaining accountability for performance, quality, safety, and conduct.
• Provide hands-on production support while maintaining supervisory coverage and leadership responsibilities.
• Ensure employees follow drawings, routers, BOMs, work instructions, specs, inspection requirements, and procedures.
• Maintain accurate records for labor, production, scrap, material traceability, training, and quality.

Skills

Manufacturing supervision

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Safety awareness

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

SYSPRO

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Leader Tech is a world leading innovator and manufacturer of EMI shielding products for circuit boards, electronic enclosures, interconnect cables and Thermal solutions founded in 1984.The Company serves a diverse commercial and military customer base from its Global EMI Shielding Technology Center located in Tampa, Florida. Every detail of the company’s one-of-a-kind manufacturing facility is tailor-engineered to streamline and improve customer service, engineering and manufacturing processes.

The Position

Leader Tech is seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Supervisor to lead approximately 20 to 25 employees across assigned manufacturing operations supporting EMI shielding products. This position is responsible for daily production execution, employee development, workplace safety, product quality, labor performance, continuous improvement, and accurate production documentation within an AS9100 and ISO quality environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Translate the production schedule into clear daily priorities for staffing, equipment, tooling, materials, and workflow across assigned manufacturing operations.
• Monitor scheduled starts, production output, labor efficiency, work-in-process (WIP), scrap, rework, downtime, attendance, and other key performance indicators.
• Identify production constraints early, implement recovery plans and corrective actions, and promptly ...
• Lead, coach, develop, and cross-train approximately 20 to 25 employees while maintaining accountability for performance, quality, safety, attendance, and workplace conduct.
• Provide hands-on production support, when trained and authorized, while maintaining appropriate supervisory coverage and leadership responsibilities.
• Ensure employees consistently follow current drawings, routers, bills of material, work instructions, specifications, inspection requirements, and applicable manufacturing procedures.
• Ensure labor, production, scrap, material, traceability, training, and quality records are accurate, complete, and maintained in accordance with company and quality-system requirements.
• Promote and enforce compliance with machine guarding, lockout/tagout, PPE, housekeeping, safe material-handling practices, and all other applicable safety requirements.
• Coordinate closely with Production Control, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Tooling, Human Resources, and other departments to resolve issues and support production objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen safety, quality, productivity, workflow, labor efficiency, and scrap/rework performance.
• Manage department overtime within company policy, support staffing decisions, and assist production as needed when trained and authorized.

Requirements

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Five or more years of manufacturing experience, including at least three years of direct production supervisory experience, preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading a manufacturing team of 15 or more employees strongly preferred.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, medical, or another regulated manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience with manufacturing processes such as forming, stamping, press operations, metal fabrication, machining, assembly, or similar production operations preferred.
• Working knowledge of production scheduling, controlled documentation, product traceability, nonconforming material, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and continuous improvement methods.
• Ability to interpret drawings, work instructions, routers, bills of material, specifications, production data, and performance metrics.
• Experience with ERP and manufacturing systems required; experience with SYSPRO and Microsoft Excel preferred.

Schedule and Physical Requirements

The regular schedule is 5:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Overtime, weekend work, and alternate-shift coverage may be required based on business needs. This position requires regular presence on the production floor and the ability to lift at least 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.

This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or on any other basis prohibited by law.