Hourly Lead — CNC & Fabrication (2nd Shift)

Gainesville, Georgia area   |   2nd Shift — 4×10, Monday–Thursday, 3:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

Lead the second-shift fabrication cell — CNC, laser, press brake, saw and deburr — producing the stainless parts that feed weld and assembly.

The hiring company builds stainless steel processing equipment used in food production — machines that run through daily washdown and have to hold up to food-safety audit. A second shift is being stood up from scratch, and these lead roles are among the first seats being filled.

•    A three-day weekend, every week. Four ten-hour days, Monday through Thursday, and you are off Friday.

•    You are building a crew rather than inheriting one. The shift starts with these leads, and the people who follow are hired around them.

•    Overtime is expected to be minimal. The schedule is the schedule.

•    Second shift runs against the traffic in both directions, which makes a longer commute far more workable than it looks on a map.

•    Work alongside the crew. This is a working lead role — expect to be running or setting up equipment for a good share of the shift.

•    Keep the cell fed and sequenced so weld and assembly are never waiting on parts, and manage material and remnant flow.

•    Own setups and first-article checks for your area, and make the call on blade, tooling and offset changes rather than running parts that are drifting out.

•    Keep stainless clean. Dedicated tooling and contamination control are a food-equipment requirement, not housekeeping.

•    Run the floor for your area: assign work against the schedule, keep people moving, and flag anything that will not make its date early enough for it to matter.

•    Set the safety standard by how you work, not by what you say. Second shift runs with limited salaried presence on site, so what you accept becomes the standard.

•    Train and coach your crew. Most of them will be newer to the operation than you are.

•    Own in-process quality for your area: check work against the print before it moves, and stop and escalate non-conforming work rather than passing it down the line.

•    Keep the paperwork straight — job travelers, counts, and whatever else gets recorded against the work.

•    Hand off cleanly to first shift: what ran, what is staged, what broke, and what is waiting on someone.

•    Three to five years in a lead or supervisory role. Close counts. If you have been the person others come to when something goes wrong, say so.

•    Industry matters less than the leading does. A manufacturing background is a plus, not a requirement.

•    A stable work history. How long you stayed matters more here than how many places you have been.

•    Comfortable with a tape measure and calipers, and able to read a print and work to it.

•    Genuinely safety-minded, and willing to be the person who speaks up.

•    Able to sustain the schedule and the commute. This is a night shift, four days a week, and it has to still work for you in month three.

•    Hands-on experience running or setting up CNC machining or sheet-metal fabrication equipment.

•    Able to hold and verify a tolerance, and to diagnose a bad cut or a drifting setup rather than working around it.

•    Experience across more than one type of equipment is valued — this is a mixed cell, and the lead needs to speak to all of it.

•    Stainless experience is a strong plus, particularly an understanding of work hardening and contamination control.

Selected candidates complete a Caliper assessment, consistent with how the company hires all leads and supervisors. Background screening and a five-panel drug screen are completed before start. The hiring company is an equal opportunity employer.