Team Leader - Assembly

Overview:

Supports the team members through process improvement and problem solving. Provides leadership and mentoring to team members, including communicating team goals and supporting company policies.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a safe work environment through hazard recognition and risk mitigation.
• Develop and communicate standard expectations for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
• Collect and analyze data to support daily production metrics. Communicate performance metrics at daily MDI meetings.
• Utilize problem-solving techniques when gaps to standards are identified.
• Hire, train, and coach team members to be able to meet department goals.
• Train and mentor Team Captains.
• Utilize Lean Manufacturing tools to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost performance. Communicate the status of improvement projects with team members.
• Develop and recommend direct labor and equipment plans to support operational metrics and sales goals.
• Schedule department workflow and work improvements to meet Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost goals.
• Monitor and communicate employee performance to ensure quality and productivity standards are met.
• Communicate machine down-time, scheduling or inventory constraints, quality concerns and shipment delays along with a recovery plan as applicable.
• Facilitate inventory counts as needed; coordinate inventory, tools and supplies and order from internal departments, as well as outside suppliers.
• Propose capital acquisitions.
• Open/close production facility as scheduled.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

• Associate’s degree in business or related field and 2 years’ experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in supervising personnel is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in business or related field is strongly preferred.
• Experience in an assembly / manufacturing environment, with an emphasis in knowledge of high mix, lower volume, manual assembly, production scheduling and Lean Manufacturing principles is a plus

Skills and Abilities:

• Read, analyze, and interpret a variety of information, such as technical procedures, business correspondence, and governmental regulations furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Create business-level written correspondence and verbally present information to internal and external customers.
• Requires job related software skills, MS Office and the ability to operate a variety of standard office equipment.

Working Conditions/Physical Demands:

• Modern production facility with heat and air conditioning
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is generally required to stand, sit, walk; use hands and fingers, talk and hear
• Ability to lift up to 30 pounds routinely
• Ability to lift 31 pounds to 50 pounds occasionally
• Ability to lift over 50 pounds with assistance occasionally