DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations Transfer Portal - Assembly Team Lead

Come join our collaborative and innovative team at DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations!

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high-voltage, open-air substations, and switchyards since 1965. Over a half-century of building meaningful relationships with our customers and vendors boils down to one thing: people. We take pride in our collaborative approach where everything we do is designed to deliver the project the right way, your way.

Though we have grown over the years, and now offer new innovations like our Factory-Built Substations, our age-old commitment will never change: to take care of you like family.

The Assembly Team Lead is a hands-on production leader responsible for helping the team safely achieve daily and weekly production targets while maintaining quality and keeping work flowing. The Team Lead works alongside Assembly Technicians while actively looking ahead at upcoming work, material needs, drawings, tooling, equipment, staffing, and potential constraints. The role is expected to anticipate problems before they interrupt production, coordinate solutions, and keep the team focused on the next priority.

The Team Lead sets the pace for safe work, communicates expectations clearly, develops team capability, and provides timely status updates and escalation when commitments are at risk

• Lead by example and make safe work the first priority in every production activity; stop and correct unsafe conditions or behaviors before work continues
• Conduct or support pre-job planning, safety discussions, hazard identification, and verification that employees understand the safe method of work before beginning non-routine or higher-risk tasks
• Ensure required PPE, guards, lifting devices, tools, and equipment are available and used correctly; reinforce safe operation of forklifts, cranes, hoists, machinery, hand tools, and power tools
• Maintain strong housekeeping and 5S expectations so aisles, work areas, tools, materials, and equipment remain organized and production-ready
• Promptly communicate incidents, near misses, hazards, damaged equipment, and safety concerns to supervision and participate in corrective actions and continuous improvement

• Own the team’s execution of the production schedule and organize daily work to meet production targets and on-time delivery commitments
• Look ahead beyond the current task or shift to understand what work is coming next and what is required to start and complete it without avoidable delay
• Review drawings, work instructions, schedules, priorities, and job requirements in advance; identify missing information, material, tooling, equipment, capacity, or support needs before they become production constraints
• Provide accurate material requests and need dates, verify critical materials are available when required, and communicate shortages, non-conformances, or delivery risks early enough for corrective action
• Coordinate labor and task assignments based on priorities, skills, bottlenecks, and readiness of work; adjust assignments throughout the day to maintain productive flow
• Monitor progress against planned hours, schedule milestones, and production targets. Recognize when the team is falling behind, determine the cause, take appropriate action, and escalate risks with recommended solutions
• Maintain accurate production hours, cost-tracking information, schedule updates, and other required production records
• Provide regular progress updates to the Production Manager, including completed work, current status, constraints, recovery actions, and upcoming needs

• Ensure assembly work is completed to drawings, specifications, work instructions, and the Quality Management System (QMS)
• Build quality into the process by checking work at appropriate points, addressing defects promptly, and preventing rework from moving downstream
• Communicate material quality issues, critical dimension concerns, and summit non-conformances to management in a timely manner
• Audit assembly processes, work methods, and equipment; identify practical improvements that…