Foundry Manager

Job Summary

The Foundry Production Manager directs and coordinates daily operations and schedule for the foundry, ensuring customer requirements and delivery schedules are met while minimizing costs and adhering to strict quality and engineering specifications.

• Generate, direct, and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly production and maintenance schedules.
• Review scheduled work orders and earned hours to ensure all customer orders and production schedules are met and there are no job order variances (JOV).
• Review, create, and vet foundry routers for accuracy and maintain them to ensure quality and product costing accuracy.
• Quote setup and run times for foundry products.
• Work with Manufacturing Engineering, leads, management, metallurgist, and 3rd party vendors to solve problems with part production or quality regarding tooling, patterns, melt instruction, or equipment.
• Manage and coordinate the activities of foundry personnel including training, employee development, performance evaluation, discipline actions, hiring decisions, vacation schedules, shift schedules, and time management on work orders.
• Promote a safety culture and enforce all NOV HSE policies and procedures and applicable local regulations. Maintain housekeeping standards to ensure a clean and safe workplace.
• Ensure all requirements for location quality certifications such as ISO, API, and welding certifications are met and adhered to.
• Investigate all customer escapes in collaboration with Quality, Engineering, and or metallurgist and implement corrective and preventive actions to prevent reoccurrence for foundry product.
• Analyze and address product nonconformities (scrap, rework, use-as-is) to improve the cost of quality for the foundry.
• Communicate verbally and in writing to ensure all employees are properly informed about policies, procedures, location performance, programs, work schedules, etc.
• Drive continuous improvement of foundry in areas of Safety, Quality, LEAN, Delivery, Lead‑Time Reduction, and Cost to enhance performance.
• Lead the foundry in process improvements and capital expenditures to increase throughput, quality, and maintain cost control.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or related major preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of in‑depth knowledge of sand cast process, working with cast iron, ductile iron, and nickel‑aluminum bronze.
• Minimum 5 years of Foundry Management or supervisory experience.
• APICS and/or LEAN/Six Sigma Green Belt certification preferred or willingness to obtain.
• Experience with raw materials, sand management, and secondary operations.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and understanding of MRP systems.

• Ability to talk, hear, walk, stand, bend, stoop, reach, kneel, crouch, and crawl as required.
• Capability to lift up to 50 lbs safely.
• Corrected vision of 20/20.
• Exposure to moving vehicles, overhead cranes, extreme ambient temperatures, fumes, chemicals, and airborne particulates.
• Work environment noise level moderate to noisy.
• Required to wear appropriate PPE, including hard hat, face mask, gloves, and steel‑toed boots.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan – NOV matches every dollar up to 5% of base pay and overtime for every dollar you invest.
• Competitive medical plans with effective date of hire. Coverage options for self and family start at $40 and $150.50 per bi‑weekly pay period respectively.
• FREE MDLIVE virtual visits (when enrolled in an NOV medical plan) starting in 2026.
• FREE preventative medical and dental care for the entire family (when enrolled in an NOV medical/dental plan and seeing an in‑network physician).
• FREE Basic Life and AD&D insurance at 2 times your annual salary (for full‑time employees).
• All regular full‑time employees start with 3 weeks of paid vacation per year, prorated based on start date.
• All regular full‑time employees receive up to 11 paid holidays per year.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Management and Manufacturing

Oil and Gas