Manufacturing Supervisor

HEICO; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Leader Tech in Tampa, FL is seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Supervisor to lead about 20–25 employees across EMI shielding product operations. The role focuses on daily production execution, safety, quality, labor performance, and continuous improvement within AS9100/ISO.

You will translate the production schedule into priorities, monitor output and KPIs, coach staff, ensure compliance with drawings and work instructions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet customer commitments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading 20–25 employees in a manufacturing setting.
• Strong leadership and people development skills.
• Familiarity with AS9100 and ISO quality environments.
• Ability to translate schedules into daily priorities.

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 escalate risks that could affect safety, quality, productivity, or customer commitments.
• 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.

Skills

Leadership

Supervisory experience

Manufacturing operations

AS9100/ISO quality

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 escalate risks that could affect safety, quality, productivity, or customer commitments.
• 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.