Machining Lead - Graveyard

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The Machining Lead is responsible for ensuring the most efficient work steps are being taken to achieve safety, quality, productivity, on time delivery and cost-effective production of our products within the Machining department. Their effort to produce this standard work is focused on personal performance, identifying, and solving both logistical manufacturing problems that occur in their respective work centers with staff, materials, and equipment.

This role is responsible for working with operators and supporting departments to solve problems that allow for continuous improvement in safety, quality, productivity, on time delivery and cost-effective production of our products.

Job Responsibilities:

Monitor Area Output to desired goals and Metrics (Safety, Quality, Productivity, Delivery and Cost)
Serves as primary problem solver to resolve issues and restore process control.

Responsible for the process control and sustainability within respective work centers.

Responsible for all R&D and Pilot jobs in area, ensuring full process documentation, production run-times, and any production issues are fed back to Manufacturing and Design Engineering. Upon completion, the process should be able to be run by all operators within the area (i.e., standard production)
Work with Manufacturing Engineering to resolve any manufacturing issues

Review current processes and drive continuous improvement through such activities as set-up reduction, speeds/feeds modifications, and tooling improvements

Serve as primary trainer within the area Leads 6S activities within the area, ensuring organization and cleanliness standards meet or exceed standards and drives expectations to operators within area.

Reviews new PCI’s for any issues

Assist the operators with problems as they occur utilizing root cause analysis methodologies

Familiar with all work centers to give effective advice

Responsible for training in all respective work centers

Follow and enforce all company safety standards/practices

Assure that equipment is adequately maintained and safely operated

Support all continuous improvement related activities / projects in all areas

Balance the workflow to ensure the best and safe use of capacity and staff

Aid in management of consumables

Flexible and resourceful, capable of identifying and implementing actions in timely manner while understanding all associated risks involved.

Support manufacturing process variation reduction and internal quality systems through use of quality tools and techniques to drive process and product improvements.

Manage small to medium scale projects related to the production environment.

Lead Responsibilities Coordinate training of personnel on technical aspects of the job.

Demonstrates leadership role in sharing knowledge with shop personnel.

Facilitates the daily work assignments for operators to ensure production requirements meet performance targets…