Team Leader- Assembly

B20 Assembly Team Leader

Major Tool & Machine (MTM) takes great pride in the talented people that come to work here. We offer market leading pay, benefits, optional 4/10 work schedule, quarterly bonus potential and a culture focused on employee engagement.

Our work is essential to the world as we provide CNC machining, manual and robotic welding, engineering, program management, inspection, assembly and cleanroom services on a large scale projects to our customers in the Space, Defense, Energy, Nuclear, and Commercial Industries.

Whether you are looking for a place to put your current strong skills to work in a more challenging, purpose filled environment, or you ultimately want long term professional growth and advancement opportunities, this could be the place for you.

Position Summary:

Responsible for leading manufacturing personnel to safely machine and fabricate quality parts on time within the estimated hours. Serves as a technical resource for the team. Ensures that the team objectives are met, including project, cost, quality and safety related factors.

Reports To:

Operational Department Manager

Personnel:
Manufacturing personnel assigned to team

Accountabilities:
To lead a team to produce quality parts, on time, at the processed hours. Performance will be judged by work center efficiencies, indirect of direct and non-conformances. To lead the team to maintain their area, according to 6S and Lean Manufacturing standards. Play an integral part in the hiring, training and development of team members. Must also ensure team members are held accountable to performance expectations, and initiate appropriate performance feedback and discipline according to company policy.

Authorities:
Determine how jobs routed to work centers will be setup and processed. Assign personnel to appropriate tasks based on skill set. Arrange necessary overtime schedules.

Duties:

• Conduct planning of jobs
• Attend Production Control meetings as scheduled
• Attend pre-release planning meetings
• Trouble-shoot shop floor issues
• Coordinate programming preparation with the programmer (machining teams only)
• Review and approve each CNC program edit request submitted. (machining teams only)
• Review Priority Dispatch Lists (PDLs) and assign personnel to support the plan. Attend job release meetings to advise engineer and gain advance information about upcoming jobs.
• Provide daily email carryover to off-shift supervisors and work centers. Carryover shall dictate what each work center is expected to work on as well as provide crucial information obtained during that shift. (Machining TL's only)
• Determine if overtime is needed to support the plan, get overtime approval from department manager
• Advise and assist personnel with technical support. Conduct regular team meetings.
• Evaluate skill level and performance of personnel.
• Investigate any anomalies– Non-Conformances (NC's), job overruns, accidents, incidents, define and implement appropriate corrective actions.
• Provide any support to team members to help them do their job – material, supplies, instructions, etc.
• Review and approve each team member's charged labor to ensure the time charged to jobs is being reported accurately.

Job Qualification Requirements:

Educational Experience – Educational requirements may be fulfilled by one or more of the following:
Minimum requirement of High School Diploma or GED; with additional Trade School / Vocational School education, some college education or relevant job experience not less than three years in either machining or fabrication.

Experience – Must be highly competent in the trade responsible for leading. Five years minimum manufacturing experience. Previous supervisory experience is desired, but not required.

Physical Demands – The employee is required to:

• stand, walk, push, pull, reach overhead, and bend to floor
• exert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or
• exert 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or
• exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Certification Required – Not applicable

Visual Acuity – Near acuity and accommodation are required for reading machine dial gauges, blueprints, and precision measuring instruments used in the…