As the Manufacturing Clean Room Operations Supervisor, you will lead the day-to-day production activities within a controlled clean room environment, ensuring products are built to exacting quality, safety, and contamination-control standards. You will supervise a team of operators, drive throughput and yield, and champion a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. This role may require supporting a shift-based schedule to maintain continuous operations.
You will lead a front-line production team in a highly controlled, quality-driven manufacturing environment where cleanliness, precision, and discipline are essential. The team partners closely with manufacturing engineering, quality, and materials to meet demanding customer and regulatory requirements while continuously improving how we work.
•Supervise, coach, and develop a team of clean room production operators to meet safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives
•Ensure strict adherence to clean room protocols, gowning procedures, ESD controls, and contamination-control standards
•Plan and prioritize daily production schedules to meet customer demand and on-time delivery
•Monitor key performance indicators (safety, yield, throughput, scrap) and lead corrective actions when targets are missed
•Partner with manufacturing engineering and quality to troubleshoot process issues and implement improvements
•Enforce compliance with EHS, quality system, and standard-work requirements, including lockout/tagout and documentation practices
•Lead shift start-up meetings, staffing, and cross-training to maintain flexible, capable teams
•Support audits and inspections by maintaining clean room compliance and accurate records
•Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and structured problem-solving
•High school diploma or equivalent
•3+ years of manufacturing experience, including 1+ year in a lead or supervisory capacity
•Experience working in a clean room, controlled, or regulated production environment
•Ability to read and interpret work instructions, specifications, and quality documentation
•Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and hold a team accountable to standards
•Experience in electronics, semiconductor, medical device, or aerospace/defense manufacturing
•Familiarity with ISO clean room classifications, ESD controls, and contamination-control practices
•Working knowledge of Lean manufacturing, 5S, and continuous improvement tools
•Experience with ERP/MES systems and production reporting
•Supervisory or leadership training/certification

Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch is one of the largest private companies in America. A diverse set of businesses and industries across the world, we work together to keep improving and exploring new ways to make life even better.
With a presence in more than 50 countries, Koch companies employ about 120,000 people worldwide, with nearly half of those in the United States. Koch offers abundant opportunities to improve life’s most necessary things – like food, clothing, water, transportation and technology.