Manufacturing Cell Leader - Aerospace and Defense Industry!
The HEICO Companies, LLC

C/A Design, Inc. is part of the Heico Companies, and in aggregate, Heico's businesses generate more than $3.2 billion in revenues. C/A Design is an Innovator and leader in the Brazing industry providing custom engineered cooling solutions while leveraging decades of cutting edge, industry leading, brazing experience. Our customers rely on us to deliver the complex parts they create. Protecting the Warfighter is our mission. Our new 120k sf state of the art facility in Exeter New Hampshire is fully operational and will raise the bar in high precision manufacturing - come and join us!

This position is responsible for overseeing the 1st shift production manufacturing team encompassing High Precision CNC Machinists, and Finishing technicians. Managing daily operations to support the on time delivery of quality parts for our valued customer base is the top priority while partnering with other top leaders in the organization on continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, this team member will mentor, coach, and supervise employees ensuring company policies and procedures are being followed for safety, quality, and 5s initiatives. The ideal candidate will reflect a progressive career path in a lean manufacturing environment within the aerospace and defense industry. This leader will be expected to embrace and exhibit our culture of honesty, integrity, and good corporate citizenship.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strive toward a culture of proactive safety.
• As a leader, build a culture of integrity and openness. Exemplify the highest standard of conduct and ethical behavior.
• Responsible for the on-time delivery of both machined piece part and post brazed machines assemblies completed through the CNC machining department as determined by planning.
• Maximize labor efficiency, labor effectiveness and machine utilization through effective work assignments and machine scheduling and planning.
• Achieve a thorough understanding of the equipment, processes, capabilities, and constraints within area assigned and make decisions to eliminate constraints and exploit opportunities.
• Ensure employees within assigned area are following company policies and procedures across manufacturing, quality, safety, and 5s standards and guidelines.
• Perform all administrative supervisory tasks of weekly payroll approvals, scheduling employee time-off, design individual goals and track performance throughout year to complete annual evaluations.
• Maintain a daily understanding of where all the jobs for key customer orders are within your department and when you believe you can complete them through all operation steps.
• Communicate and escalate maintenance, manufacturing process, and component quality issues to employees within the appropriate department to facilitate problem solving and process continuation.
• Support and empower assigned employees, providing guidance on leadership and personnel performance issues to maximize individual and departmental performance.
• Facilitate, organize, and support lean daily management initiatives within area to track and report performance across personnel, output, safety, quality and maintenance.
• Address and escalate production, equipment, and personnel-related issues as necessary

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience of varied engineering and/or manufacturing leadership experience in complex manufacturing organization.
• Bachelors or Associates level degree in a science major is a preferred.
• Knowledge of CNC programming & machinery along with familiarity with brazing technologies is a plus.
• Previous supervisory experience with direct labor reports is required.
• Proven track record of delivering costs reductions, efficiency gains and eliminating waste using problem solving and continuous improvement methodologies, (LEAN), and other tools.
• Experience with operational metrics (key performance indicators) and employee performance / talent management is desired.
• Ability to effectively assign and delegate tasks and influence team performance is required.
• Proficiency using MS Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for communication, data collection, analysis, and presentation is required.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas simply and effectively is required.
• Previous experience using an ERP system (Oracle, SAP, Infor, ECI Jobboss / E2) is highly desired.
• Experience with TPS lean-management principals including lean daily management, machine setup reduction, manufacturing process-flow, visual shop-floor management, and continuous improvement is highly desired.
• A safety focused mindset and the ability to influence a work safe culture.
• Understanding of ASME Y14.5 drawing interpretation is highly desired.
• Experience working within an AS9100 aerospace and defense is highly desired.

C/A Design is an equal opportunity employer.

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Job Snapshot
Employee Type Full-Time

Location Exeter, NH (Onsite)

Job Type Other

Experience Not Specified

Date Posted 02/03/2026

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