FMF Assistant Manager

The FMF Assistant Manager is responsible for supporting the FMF Manager in leading daily department execution, supervisor follow-up, schedule recovery, production control, and floor accountability. This role helps translate department priorities into clear daily direction, ensures supervisors are actively managing their assigned areas, and drives follow-through on safety, quality, delivery, cost, and 5S expectations. The FMF Assistant Manager works closely with the FMF Manager, supervisors, programmers, technical support personnel, quality, planning, and other production departments to maintain schedule discipline, identify constraints early, and support stable execution. This position is expected to be a visible floor leader who reinforces standards, escalates issues quickly, and helps build stronger leadership discipline across FMF.

Scope and Responsibilities:

Essential duties include, but are not limited to the following:
* Actively supports a safe and healthy work environment for self and others
* Support the FMF Manager in daily department leadership, production execution, and schedule recovery
* Provide daily direction and follow-up to FMF supervisors to ensure priorities are understood and executed
* Monitor production status, schedule misses, aging work, bottlenecks, and recovery actions
* Ensure supervisors are actively managing their areas, communicating constraints, and following up on open items
* Help lead daily huddles, production reviews, and shift handoff communication
* Partner with the FMF Manager to align manpower, priorities, overtime needs, and recovery plans
* Reinforce department standards for safety, quality, 5S, attendance, productivity, and accountability
* Escalate abnormal conditions early, including schedule risk, quality issues, tooling concerns, missing parts, programming delays, and labor constraints
* Support coaching, development, and accountability of supervisors and team leads as directed by the FMF Manager
* Work with programmers, technical support, planning, quality, and production teams to remove roadblocks and keep work moving
* Help ensure late work has a clear owner, next step, and follow-up date
* Review department performance data and assist with action plans to improve execution
* Support continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen safety, quality, delivery, cost, and department stability
* Maintain professional communication with employees, supervisors, managers, and cross-functional teams
* Responsibilities may be reassigned by the supervisor as business needs evolve

Education/Certification:
* High School diploma or equivalent required
* Associate degree or technical certificate in manufacturing, machining, operations, engineering technology, or related field preferred
* 5+ years of manufacturing, machining, production, or operations experience preferred
* Previous supervisory or leadership experience required
* Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, or formal leadership training preferred
* Forklift / overhead crane certification preferred if applicable to the area, or ability to obtain

Skills:
* Strong manufacturing leadership experience with the ability to manage supervisors, priorities, and daily floor execution
* Strong understanding of machining, fabrication, production flow, scheduling, or related manufacturing processes preferred
* Ability to lead through accountability, communication, urgency, and consistent follow-up
* Strong problem-solving ability with the discipline to identify issues early and drive corrective action
* Ability to read and understand production schedules, work status reports, priorities, and recovery plans
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with changing priorities
* Strong communication skills with the ability to work across production, programming, quality, planning, and leadership teams
* Ability to coach supervisors and reinforce expectations without avoiding difficult conversations
* Strong organization skills and ability to manage multiple open items at the same time
* Microsoft Office Suite experience required; D365 experience preferred
* Strong reliability, accountability, and ability to lead by example