2nd Shift Team Lead

Position Summary

Team Leaders takes overall responsibility for the efficient operation of their areas production resources. Team Leads have key responsibilities for quality and productivity, and they make an important contribution to overall cost control and profitability based on their execution of the day‑to‑day plan.

• Follow all safety policies and practices.
• Enter Gensuite items when incidents are identified.
• Complete open Gensuite items on time and completely for the area.
• Track and communicate all safety card problems turned in by team members.
• Conduct Area Safety walks as part of 5S throughout the day and report timely.
• Under the guidance of their supervisor, monitor workers on site during production activities to ensure adherence to ethics and safety procedures.
• Evaluate manufacturing equipment for safety and functionality.

• Team Leads are on the front line and must take personal responsibility for quality or liaise with a quality management team to ensure that product quality meets the standards customers expect.
• Monitor the quality performance and ensure that production workers adhere to quality policies.
• Act to deal with quality problems so as to minimize waste or reworking on the production line.
• Under the guidance of their supervisor, ensure all team members follow all engineering and quality requirements and documentation in performance of duties.
• Ensure that products and goods manufactured meet quality standards.
• Check finished products to ensure quality and that industry standards are met before they are declared ready for use.
• Complete Final Product Inspections on all orders.
• Ensure inspections are completed accurately and timely.
• Ensure all inspections are filed correctly daily.
• Ensure proper process documentation is in the area.
• Ensure all products moved off the line are correctly identified.
• Communicate with quality on all issues related to product quality concerns.
• TIB Tracking for quality is accurate and updated daily, weekly and monthly on time.
• Ensure action items are identified and completed.
• Participate in all quality meetings related to non‑conforming products from area.
• Ensure Quality Star point members are identified and assigned to meeting.

• Resource allocation is an important responsibility for Team Leaders.
• Under the guidance of the supervisor, decide which machines to use and how many production line workers to deploy using information from build documents like the "Bill of Operations".
• Use the minimum resources, when necessary, while meeting production and delivery deadlines.
• Allow overtime when necessary to meet urgent delivery dates or increase production levels.
• Improve efficiency and productivity so that delivery deadlines are met and costs are reduced.
• Help the Supervisor analyze manufacturing data to identify production bottlenecks or eliminate unnecessary processes.
• Work directly with Production Engineers to improve speed or accuracy of production equipment.
• Work with area trainers to improve the skills of team members.

• Ensure that goals are being tracked.
• Motivate workers to enhance production quantity while maintaining high production standards.
• Cover Safety, Quality, Delivery and cost.
• Labor efficiency.
• Delivery efficiency.
• Defective Parts Per Million goals.
• Escalate all issues to the area supervisor and plant manager.
• Follow escalation plan.
• Communicate all downtime occurrences to leadership (Supervisor, Managers, Engineers, Maintenance).
• Place work orders for all equipment downtime and ensure a time frame is given for all downtime and communicated to Supervisor.
• Control or reduce production costs to maintain profit levels.
• Assist Manufacturing Engineering and lean resources in identifying process improvements to increase throughput and reduce labor requirements.
• Work with procurement to ensure supplies of materials and components are available when needed.
• Assist in providing specifications for the procurement team and report on the quality and performance of company suppliers.
• Coordinate supplies with the warehouse team in a timely manner.
• Under the direction of the supervisor, ensure all labor is properly distributed (proper…