Shop Steward

Requirements What you will own

Give every tool, part, material, and project a labeled home, and set the pattern engineers copy for their

Plan the layout as the team grows; order, receive, and assemble furniture, workbenches, and racks.

Have tools, a computer, a desk, and a workspace ready for every new engineer on day one.

Buy shop supplies and keep consumables stocked before anyone is blocked.

Manage the reciept of larger orders like furniture or components that come crated or on pallets

Keep tools organized and working, and maintain the 3D printers, CNC machine, and other shop equipment.

Willingness to run the CNC occasionally for small jobs. We will teach you.

Set a clear, visible cleanliness standard with simple daily or weekly routines the whole team follows.

Keep shared areas, storage, and the robot testing space clean yourself, and nudge people back to the standard. When something keeps getting left out, fix its home first.

Purge hardware we no longer need on a regular schedule: confirm with the owning engineer, sell what has value, recycle the rest.

Manage teardown of retired robots, recovering the parts worth keeping.

Handle scrap, recycling, and removal of bulk material like crates, pallets, and scrap metal.

Who you are

Extremely organized and detail-oriented.

Hands-on. You would rather build the shelf and label the bins today than write a plan for it.

Warm and direct. You assume good intent, and you can tell a busy engineer their bench has slipped in a way that feels like help.

A systems builder who knows the difference between a system people use and one they work around.

Comfortable with hand and power tools, and able to tell a fastener, a connector, and a piece of stock apart.

Able to lift 40+ lbs, operate a pallet stacker, and work around robots and machine tools.

Willing to pitch in when something lands outside your scope.

Nice to haves

Experience running a stockroom, tool crib, makerspace, or lab.

Hands-on experience with 3D printers, electronics, CNC machines, or sheet metal.

Shipping, receiving, and freight experience; pallet jack or forklift certification.

Purchasing experience (McMaster-Carr, Digi-Key, and similar).

Familiarity with inventory or MES software; ION is a plus.

Experience with equipment teardown, salvage, or reselling surplus.

A track record of building your own organization solutions.