Assistant Shift Leader

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Charlotte, NC, Charlotte, NC, US

The Assistant Shift Leader supports the Shift Leader in coordinating people, production, quality, safety, and technical activity across the assigned shift. This is a hands‑on floor leadership role that helps keep production running, provides direction and support to employees, completes required documentation, and responds to routine equipment and process issues within the employee's training and authorization. When the Shift Leader is absent, this position assumes assigned day‑to‑day shift leadership responsibilities within established procedures and management direction.

• Help organize daily production activity, align staffing with the production schedule, communicate priorities, and support an effective shift handoff.
• Provide work direction, coaching, and on‑the‑job training to assigned employees while reinforcing safe work practices, quality standards, and production expectations.
• Monitor staffing, attendance, housekeeping, safety, quality, productivity, scrap, downtime, and schedule performance throughout the shift.
• Address routine floor issues and elevate disciplinary matters, sensitive employee concerns, or unresolved operating problems to the Shift Leader or appropriate manager.
• Make sure employees have the tools, materials, instructions, and personal protective equipment needed to perform their work safely and effectively.

• Complete or verify first‑piece inspections, required in‑process inspections, work‑order packages, job‑change paperwork, downtime records, and shift reports.
• Enter and verify required production information in Plant Star, RFID, and other assigned systems accurately and on time.
• Respond to safety, quality, or compliance concerns by stopping or containing work when required, protecting employees and product, and notifying the appropriate support function.
• Support stable production and timely recovery from interruptions while following approved process limits and escalation procedures.

• Start, stop, and safely cycle assigned injection molding machines; verify controls, operating modes, interlocks, emergency stops, system pressure, oil temperature, and safe operating condition.
• Support machine and mold start‑up by confirming approved programs, mold and barrel heats, water, hydraulics, cores, ejectors, valve gates, robots, end‑of‑arm tooling, and auxiliary equipment.
• Perform approved shutdown, purging, resin, regrind, additive, and color‑change procedures for job changes, contamination control, and planned or unplanned shutdowns.
• Support mold sets and pulls, including leveling, clamping, magnetic holding systems, water and hydraulic connections, die height, tool versions, approved programs, and required documentation.
• Apply approved process knowledge to help maintain consistent production, including pressure, temperature, fill, decompression, nozzle timing, transfer, runners, heaters, clamp requirements, and established process limits.

• Support robots and end‑of‑arm tooling by referencing robots, selecting approved programs, adjusting authorized setpoints, using permitted manual functions, and completing dry‑cycle verification when required.
• Complete hot‑stamp setup and changeover support, including dies, guides, backstops, temperatures, dwell, pressure, stroke, foil pull, setup security, and finished‑stamp quality.
• Complete foil changeout and adjustment by verifying the correct foil type, size,…