Production Group Lead - Nights

Brighton, CO
The Production Group Lead, along with being a direct and integral member of the process area team, is responsible for leading and directing his/her crew in the safe execution of the daily production plan and associated support activities scheduled in their process area of responsibility. The PL will work roughly 30% of the time of process and 70% on leadership and administrative tasks.

Production Group Lead
Brighton, CO
The Production Group Lead, along with being a direct and integral member of the process area team, is responsible for leading and directing his/her crew in the safe execution of the daily production plan and associated support activities scheduled in their process area of responsibility. The PL will work roughly 30% of the time of process and 70% on leadership and administrative tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible and accountable for their respective team’s performance in safety, quality, delivery and productivity; will ensure their team’s full compliance and efforts in support of the Vestas safety and quality standards and will proactively address challenges that would compromise the safety of employees, the quality or reliability of our products, the adherence to weekly production schedules and takt plans and will ensure efficient and appropriate utilization of resources.
• Will emphasize a positive environment which fosters team member safety, collaboration, accountability and ownership.

Leadership and Direction:

• Set an example as a Vestas employee and role model in terms of behaviors showing focus on Vestas’ core values in accountability, collaboration, simplicity and ownership; show high degree of honesty, initiative, integrity, drive, reliability and trustworthiness; foster a positive, harassment free work environment for all team members while respecting everyone.
• Must be viewed as a natural leader and someone who can build high-performance teams inspiring performance and the very best from all members of the process team.
• Foster participation, ownership and collaboration by encouraging area team members involvement, soliciting input on process improvements and utilizing team member ideas as much as possible.
• Expected to translate goals set by leadership into tasks and drive completion of daily production schedule, responsible for team’s performance with regards to safety, quality, delivery and schedule adherence.
• Coordinate the allocation of employees, materials, equipment to optimize output while ensuring all organizational policies, procedures and applicable laws are adhered to.
• Support Supervisor and other members of Management with company communication; ensure open and transparent, bi-directional communication amongst teams both laterally between team members but also to support groups, supplier groups, customer groups and management.
• Coach Vestas Production Team Members and temporary employees as needed for continuous improvement on expectations and performance in safe work practices, meeting required quality standards, takt and efficient completion of tasks.

Safety:

• Set an example, always , with regards to safe behavior, hazard recognition, and incident prevention; ensure they and other team members are safe and actively support an incident free culture and mindset.
• Ensure team’s compliance of established safety rules, policies and practices of environmental, health and safety with specific attention to the Vestas Lifesaving Rules.
• Responsible for the safe on-boarding of new team members or those transferring into the area; review and train the new team member on the area risk assessment and be responsible that the new team member is fully and accurately trained in proper use of tools, PPE requirements for the area, hazards, processes and procedures for completing work safely in the assigned area.
• Responsible for conducting daily/monthly safety inspections in assigned area, correcting hazards identified, and ensure that employees are always using proper PPE.
• Responsible to alert appropriate support function when encountering the need to execute non-standard processes, and lead/participate in creation of job hazard analysis prior to work being performed.
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