Operations Lead

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.

Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose -- to make great products that create value and improve people’s lives.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Lead located in Salt Lake City, UT.

Reporting to the Production Supervisor, the Lead role involves being responsible for providing leadership and direction to groups of non-exempt employees.

• Provide feedback to supervisors about employees’ performance through formal and informal meetings.
• Coordinate people resource requirements for the department.
• Communicate priority tasks to team daily and lead efforts towards production goals.
• Highlight and investigate material shortages or discrepancies.
• Help alert other departments about planned and unplanned downtime.
• Avoid downtime due to material shortages by ensuring that lines are supplied with sufficient materials.
• Update “pass down” and “down time” communication reports to ensure communication flow with opposite shift.
• Follow quality indicators and help alert others if predefined indicators fall below the target.
• Organize employees’ at assigned workstations and rearrange assignments when necessary.
• Identify cause of mass failures and make the necessary adjustments to overcome errors.
• Recognize, monitor, and overcome bottlenecks.
• Motivate and mentor individual employees and small groups of employees.
• Monitor employees’ performance and communicate to trainers what additional training is needed.
• Have the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform all job requirements in area of responsibility.
• Be a leader in promoting compliance with 5S+1 and quality assurance practices.
• Be supervisors first point of contact and be able to fill in for supervisor when necessary.
• Ensure that accepted reasonable accommodations are met for employees in area of responsibility.

• Successful completion of company required training may be required.
• Must have 1 year of manufacturing experience at Flex or equivalent experience.
• Requires a minimum of 6 certifications at Flex.
• Ability to effectively present information in one on one and small group situations to other employees, and supervisors of the organization.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret complex instructions.
• Must have knowledge of some Microsoft office applications such as excel, word, and power point.
• Ability to speak and understand English.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in various forms.

Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process.

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