CNC Team Lead - 1st Shift

Advantic Building Group is a design-build structural solutions company focused on building smarter, lighter, and more efficient infrastructure. We design, fabricate, and install systems using Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP), a high-performance material that helps our customers build safer, faster, and more sustainably across industrial, mission-critical, and infrastructure projects.

What truly sets Advantic apart isn't just what we build, it's how we work.

We value individuals who are accountable, collaborative, and driven to continuously improve. At Advantic, culture is not a slogan. It's reflected in the way we support one another, solve problems together, and invest in our people. If you're looking for a manufacturing leadership opportunity where your ideas matter, your work has visible impact, and your career growth is encouraged, we'd love to meet you.

Advantic Building Group is seeking an experienced CNC Team Lead to support daily operations within our manufacturing and fabrication department. This role combines hands-on CNC machining expertise with leadership responsibilities, helping drive safety, quality, productivity, and employee development across the production floor.

The ideal candidate has experience leading manufacturing teams, operating CNC equipment, reading work instructions, troubleshooting production challenges, and ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and to quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Support

- Provide on-the-floor guidance and daily coordination for team members to ensure efficient execution of production tasks.

- Act as a resource and mentor for newer employees, assisting with onboarding, training, and skill development.

- Serve as a point of communication between the production team and supervisors/engineering, helping to resolve issues and keep priorities aligned.

- Monitor progress against production goals and adjust assignments as needed to meet deadlines and quality standards.

- Assist with administrative functions including shift handoff reporting, inventory tracking, and verifying time entries.

CNC Manufacturing & Fabrication

- Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, and specifications to ensure fabrication requirements have been met.

- Inspect materials before processing to ensure compliance with specifications.

- Set up and safely operate shop equipment including saws, drills, sanders, and shaping tools.

- Perform quality audit to ensure that CNC operators are in compliance with ABG’s quality measures.

- Ensure completion of preventative maintenance of tools, equipment, and machines is to limit unplanned downtime events and that all operators safely operate each day.

- Complete required safety, quality, and inventory documentation.

- Track fabrication completion of work out of the CNC work centers to ensure a clean hand off to the assembly and shipping team.

Problem Solving & Process Improvement

- Support continuous improvement efforts by identifying areas for enhanced efficiency, safety, or quality.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues during fabrication or assembly.

- Use fabrication systems to drive insights on how to optimize daily operations.

- Apply strong knowledge of carpentry principles and shop math to solve technical challenges.

Qualifications

- High school diploma or GED or five to seven years’ related experience or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- 5+ years of CNC machining experience in a production manufacturing environment preferred.

- Proven ability to read blueprints and work with fabrication tools and machinery.

- Demonstrated leadership qualities, with a focus on teamwork, accountability, and communication.

- Strong attention to detail and commitment to safety and quality.

- Comfortable completing paperwork and using computer applications related to production tracking such as ERP/MES systems and Microsoft Office.

Preferred

- Experience leading CNC operators or manufacturing teams.

- Experience with ERP, MES, or other manufacturing software systems.

- Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, or Kaizen experience.

- E xperience in industrial manufacturing, fabrication, composites, woodworking, or related production environments.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate effectively through speaking and hearing. This role is physically active and requires the ability to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, bend, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl, and climb throughout the workday.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move objects weighing up to 50 pounds. Specific visual abilities required for this position include: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Advantic Building Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.