Production Team Lead; WCC - Admin

Work Cell Coach

The Work Cell Coach will oversee the day-to-day operation of their assigned Work Cell. The Work Cell Coach has overall responsibility for the operations of their Work Cell and may require escalation of issues to other supporting departments (i.e. Maintenance and Automation, Tool Room) or their Supervisor. This position will report directly to the Supervisor of their shift.

Responsibilities:

• Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors and participate and make suggestions for improvement.
• Identify safety gaps and self-initiate corrective actions.
• Strictly adhere to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts.
• Understands, identifies and corrects safety hazards.
• Create a work environment where risks are managed with an appropriate sense of urgency
• Support and ensure compliance and execution of company vision
• Perform cell walk at shift exchange with previous WCC
• Ensure labor density plan is followed
• Review machine downtime to ensure optimized labor assignments
• Ensure machine/cell readiness for production
• Approve start-up of prod
• Inspect one shot/operator/day (with them) and then one shot/operator/day independently to ensure compliance and effectiveness and to ensure quality product is being produced within the cell
• Perform Gemba walks every 2 hours-doc results on MDI
• Ensure Operator AMs are being completed
• Hold TPM meeting weekly and maintain Found vs. Fixed
• Ensure proper shutdown of machines:
  End of run, no-op, and Holiday shutdown
• Performance of assigned LPAs
• Investigate Production Anomalies (pulls, DT, Red Screen, Hrx Hr, Labor variance, proactively reduce scrap)
• Communicate/escalate operational issues with shift supervisor
• Lead, support, and develop operator skill level in work cell for better performance
• Ensure compliance plant initiatives ISO, TPM and GMP
• Manage scrap waste stream and drive reduction within the cell
• Assist with machine breakdowns and escalate to support groups

Required Skills/Attitudes:

• Ability to challenge the status quo to facilitate continuous improvement
• Ability to collaborate across roles and diverse groups, gather and share feedback
• Ability to stay current in best practices and be a continuous learner
• Ability to plan and manage routine maintenance
• Strong communication, presentation, planning and organizational skills; ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strategic thinking skills
• Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, reports and memos.
• Ability to write correspondence and reports.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one situations, to other supervisors and in small group settings to employees of his/her department.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percentage.
• Ability to apply astute understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving employees.
• Ability to determine problems if rate is not made on a specific machine.
• Associates degree or relevant experience
• Previous experience supervising employees within a manufacturing, military or industrial environment.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties, the employee will be required to sit and/or stand, talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands, fingers and arms to feel objects or controls, reach with hands and arms. Prolonged standing/walking periods of 12 hours. May be required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift to 50 pounds.

About MRP:

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