Team Lead Position

Job Description

Team Lead

2nd Shift

Schedule:

2:00 PM - 10:00 PM (Monday-Friday plus overtime)

• Responsible for meeting safety, production, productivity, quality and Lean/5s goals for assigned area.
• Ensure that your team(s) is comfortably and completely trained in all aspects of their job duties.
• Responsible to be the production expert in your area(s) of responsibility and to fill in where necessary to ensure a smooth running operation.
• Supports and promotes core values including employee handbook.
• Responsible for data drive ideas and implementation of ideas/initiatives to improve productivity and quality to achieve a consistent 85 % + OEE.
• Lead, develop, encourage and hold team members accountable. Be an example in your daily work.
• Training/Coaching employees within your team, (Safety, Equipment operation and troubleshooting, setup, standard work, lean/5s, productivity, quality and production tracking (paperwork).
• Update, as requested, Team board with appropriate information.
• Update and use production tracking tools on shop floor.
• Ensuring the schedule is followed in every work center to ensure daily/shift targets are met.
• Team meetings; sharing new information with your team, keeping the team members up to date with current status related to your area. (production/productivity goals and past due, OEE, opportunities for improvement, plant information and other as requested).
• Collecting all paperwork and verifying it’s accuracy before submitting it to your supervisor.
• Ensure all members in team and existing equipment is within compliance of all safety requirements.
• Auditing of the team and the area in which you are managing.
• Be proactive and advocate for Lean/5s initaitives;
  Ensure the housekeeping standards are met.
• Participation in product launches and other strategic tasks.
• Participation in meetings as required.
• Actively participate and manage High Performance Work Teams.
• Work closely with management, engineering, maintenance, quality, and logistics/scheduling.

• Productivity of area vs standard and OEE
• Scrap rates / Quality Measure (customer complaints etc)
• Safety Incidents / Audits
• Adherence to Schedule
• Quality / Process improvement as measured by productivity, scrap and downtime
• Accuracy / Complete / Turned in paperwork and/or entered data
• 5s / Lean audits of Team
• Team member feedback
• Supervisor input
• Quality input

High school diploma or GED

Minimum 2 years hands on production/manufacturing experience.

• Ability to communicate well with others, including management.
• Spoken and written English is required.
• Ability to understand and interpret written English including work instructions.

Basic math skills.

Ability to define problems, understands and can employ formal problem solving techniques to a problem.

Upholds organizational values, including employee handbook.

• Can be relied on to follow directions, meet deadlines and communicates road blocks.
• Realizes he "owns" the are and is willing to put in extra hours when required.

• Organizes work and administrative tasks for efficiency.
• Prioritizes.
• Finishes.
• Lives organization.

Is consistently at work and on time.