Team Lead - 2nd Shift

Company Overview: FXI is a leading producer of foam innovation in the Bedding, Furniture, Industrial, Home & Office, Healthcare, and Transportation markets. We have made it our mission to provide tailored solutions that delight our customers and consumers. With our corporate headquarters, high-tech research and development facility, and multiple manufacturing locations in North America, FXI has built a culture of innovation and achievement that is recognized by customers, suppliers and peers.

Our products include finished goods, sub-assemblies, services, and raw materials for OEMs, fabricators, and retailers. You will find FXI's foam innovations inside, around, and under yourself in countless applications. Everywhere foam goes, FXI's innovations lead the way! Won't you join us?

BASIC FUNCTION: Under the supervision of the Production Supervisor and Operations Manager, the Team Lead is responsible for directing and coordinating daily production operations to ensure delivery of quality products which meet and exceeds customer expectations. This position is responsible for assisting in leadership of the shift/ area, providing guidance to the team to ensure continuous improvement in manufacturing processes, and coordinating efforts amongst other shifts.

In addition, the Team Lead is responsible to support two-way communication through department meetings and various teamwork processes, as well as provide feedback to employees and provide input into employee’s performance appraisals.

• Responsible to support Management and Company.
• Responsible to ensure that employees understand safety, quality, delivery and productivity and prioritize them in the same order.
• Responsible to establish a positive work environment and general understanding that safety standards are an indispensable corollary to productivity goals and that safety is our #1 priority.
• Responsible to help create and maintain a positive team spirit. Be a role model; lead by example.
• Responsible to provide adequate performance feedback to maximize employee performance.
• Responsible to effectively plan and organize resources and materials to accomplish daily work objectives.
• Responsible to communicate professionally with all individuals and ensure a smooth transition between shifts.
• Responsible to motivate and train employees toward higher efficiency and skill levels.
• Responsible to work cooperatively with other FXI team members on continuous improvement efforts and facilitating problem solving between and within the shift, while maintaining operating budgets.
• Responsible for documentation of production activity.
• Responsible to interview candidates for personnel on respective shift.
• Responsible to keep employees informed of the current state of our business and provide information on future planning.
• Responsible to enforce discipline in plant policies, guidelines, and systems.
• Responsible to maintain proper safety conditions, comply with all standard equipment safety practices, and protect company assets.
• Responsible to maintain an organized, clean and safe work area.
• Responsible to ensure manufacturing job operations maintain or improve product quality. Stop and correct job operation if product quality is affected negatively.
• Responsible to resolve confrontation/ conflicts as they occur while keeping management and HR informed at all times.
• Responsible to communicate raw material issues and other inventory level needs.
• Responsible to lead team meetings, pre-shift meetings, safety talks, and productivity/ yield meetings.
• Responsible to help manage Safe Work, Hot Work, Confined Space, and Line Breaking Permits.
• Responsible to back-up to hourly personnel as well fill in for other Leads or Supervisors when absences…