Crusoe Shop Foreman at Crusoe leads daily floor activities of production leads and assembly technicians across 5 assembly lines. This role ensures operational rigor and compliance with company policies and OSHA safety regulations.
Responsibilities
Join Crusoe as a Shop Foreman and play an essential leadership role in scaling our world-class manufacturing operations. In this full-time role, you will direct and coordinate the daily floor activities of production leads and assembly technicians across 5 active assembly lines, overseeing the end-to-end manufacturing process of our modular data centers (MDCs) and power distribution centers (PDCs). You will maintain operational rigor across the plant, ensuring that all production execution strictly abides by company policies and OSHA safety regulations.
The ideal candidate is an authentic, people-first shop-floor leader who balances deep technical aptitude with strong operational discipline. You thrive on fostering a respectful, positive, and collaborative working environment—developing lasting relationships, mentoring technicians, driving Lean workflows, and maintaining rigorous standards of craft, quality, and delivery pacing to power the future of sustainable computing.
What You’ll Be Working On:
Operational & Floor Leadership: Provide overall operational leadership for assigned lines and projects, consistently achieving target performance metrics across safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.
Lean Manufacturing Application: Champion the practical application of Lean Manufacturing tools and concepts—including 5S, Gemba walks, Kaizen events, line balancing, and visual management—to achieve measurable and sustainable workflow improvements on the floor.
Strategy & Schedule Execution: Formulate and execute daily project strategies, production schedules, and technician resource plans strictly aligned with budgeted production bid hours.
Team Leadership & Mentorship: Directly lead, mentor, and upskill production leads and technicians to build an engaged, accountable, and high-performing manufacturing workforce.
Operational Metrics & Reporting: Continuously monitor and report on key operational inputs and KPIs, including safety incident rates, first-pass yield, schedule adherence, labor efficiency, and scrap/rework costs.
Safety & Culture of Excellence: Champion an active safety culture, enforcing strict compliance, continuous hazard identification, and operational excellence aligned with Crusoe Mission Critical values.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Project Management to eliminate bottlenecks and ensure seamless project execution.
Stakeholder & Vendor Relationships: Cultivate productive, professional working relationships with internal departments, external suppliers, and equipment vendors to resolve production constraints rapidly.
Qualification
Strong leadership and mentorship skills
Required
Experience leading manufacturing operations
Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing tools and concepts
Ability to manage production schedules and resource plans
Strong leadership and mentorship skills
Preferred
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
Direct experience manufacturing Modular Data Centers (MDCs), Power Distribution Centers (PDCs), switchgear, or industrial e-houses.
Advanced blueprint and schematic literacy across electrical one-lines, control wiring diagrams, and mechanical fabrication drawings.
Hands-on experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for labor tracking and shop floor management.
