Digital Manufacturing Manager

Job Description Summary:

• Lead the digital manufacturing function and establish the operating model, priorities, staffing plan, and capability roadmap for the facility. 
• Partner with Talent Team to recruit, onboard, train, schedule, coach, and develop CNC operators and digital manufacturing personnel as the operation grows. 
• Define team roles, decision rights, handoffs, escalation paths, and coverage needed to support production schedules and critical program releases. 
• Establish practical performance measures for program readiness, first-run success, quality, material yield, cycle time, rework, downtime, and on-time support to production. 
• Create a culture of ownership, disciplined problem-solving, documentation, cross-training, and continuous improvement. 
• Convert Revit-based design models into fabrication-ready components using hsbCAD, including single-piece shop drawings, assemblies, and part-level geometry suitable for manufacturing. 
• Own the full digital thread from design intent through shop drawings, nesting, machine programs, release, revision, execution, and as-built feedback. 
• Maintain alignment and data consistency across Revit, hsbCAD, production planning, press-line systems, CNC equipment, and downstream quality records. 
• Partner with design and engineering teams to resolve incomplete, conflicting, or non-manufacturable information before release to production. 
• Develop and refine billet layouts, master-panel nesting, and breakdown strategies to maximize material yield, minimize waste, and align with press constraints, CNC capabilities, handling requirements, and production sequencing. 
• Ensure panel layups, layer orientation, adhesive zones, machining operations, tolerances, and part identification are correctly defined and executable. 
• Provide manufacturing and cutting-efficiency feedback to estimating and sales to support pricing, project planning, and manufacturability decisions. 
• Generate, validate, release, and manage XML outputs for the CLT press line and BTL or other CNC programs for machining equipment. 
• Own manufacturing and CNC data readiness, confirming completeness, compatibility, revision status, and release authorization before programs reach the production floor. 
• Establish and enforce file structures, naming conventions, version control, approvals, backups, and change-management practices that support traceability and reduce production risk. 
• Partner with operations during setup, commissioning, first-run validation, and ramp-up to ensure programs run as intended and meet safety, quality, throughput, and schedule expectations. 
• Operate CNC equipment as needed to test, verify, troubleshoot, and improve programs while building operator capability and reducing reliance on engineering handoffs. 
• Conduct simulations, dry runs, and first-piece validation to confirm geometry, tooling, machining accuracy, tolerances, and cycle time before full production release. 
• Lead rapid resolution of geometry conflicts, toolpath errors, tooling limitations, machine constraints, control issues, and program failures through direct shop-floor engagement. 
• Coordinate with controls, automation, IT/OT, and equipment partners to support reliable execution of XML, machine logic, production data exchange, and system interfaces. 
• Help define requirements and priorities for digital manufacturing systems, integrations, upgrades, software, tooling, and equipment improvements. 
• Maintain a disciplined approach to access, configuration, backups, testing, and change control in coordination with applicable company requirements. 
• Verify digital outputs meet project specifications, tolerances, fabrication requirements, and QA/QC expectations, minimizing downstream rework and field risk. 
• Develop standard details, parametric templates, libraries, checklists, work instructions, and repeatable workflows that improve speed, accuracy, and scalability. 
• Analyze recurring issues and lead corrective actions that improve automation, nesting efficiency, program quality, uptime, cycle time, and first-run success. 
• Document lessons learned and feed production results back into design standards, estimating assumptions, training, and future project execution. 
• Coordinate with production planning to align nests, panel breakdowns, program releases, staffing, and machine capacity with manufacturing schedules and installation sequencing. 
• Communicate program readiness, constraints, risks, priorities, and recovery actions clearly to manufacturing leadership and cross-functional partners. 
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, quality, controls, maintenance, planning, estimating, sales, and project teams to align design intent with manufacturing capability. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, construction, wood science, digital fabrication, or a related technical field; an equivalent combination of education and substantial hands-on experience will be considered. 
• Progressive experience in digital fabrication, CNC programming, CAD/CAM, applications engineering, or manufacturing engineering within an industrial environment. 
• Demonstrated experience leading people, projects, technical teams, or manufacturing functions, with the ability to build a team and operating discipline in a growing facility. 
• Experience generating and validating machine-ready outputs such as XML, BTL, CNC programs, or comparable production data. 
• Strong understanding of CNC machining, programming, tooling, machine constraints, manufacturing tolerances, and production problem-solving. 
• Ability to read and interpret construction documents, shop drawings, fabrication details, and technical specifications. 
• Ability to work cross-functionally and translate technical requirements into clear priorities and executable work for operators and production teams. 
• Ability to work in an industrial environment and support production-floor activities, commissioning, troubleshooting, and off-shift needs when required. 
• Comfortable moving between strategy, technical work, team development, and direct shop-floor support. 
• Able to create a function, develop people, establish standards, and scale capability as production grows. 
• Ownership and judgment: Makes disciplined release decisions, escalates risk early, and follows issues through resolution. 
• Technical problem-solving: Diagnoses complex interactions among geometry, software, tooling, controls, machines, material, and process. 
• Balances quality, safety, schedule, throughput, material yield, maintainability, and long-term capability. 
• Provides clear direction, documents decisions, and aligns technical and operational stakeholders. 
• Combination of office, engineering, and active manufacturing-floor work in a CLT production environment. 
• Regular use of computers, CAD/CAM applications, production systems, and CNC interfaces. 
• Use of required personal protective equipment and compliance with all site safety requirements. 
• Occasional schedule flexibility may be needed to support commissioning, first runs, production interruptions, or critical troubleshooting.